Art for her is the way of exchanging information about feelings and sometimes answers. It is easy to misunderstand, however, she confident that the true deep content will be not.
Her current work studies the relationship between efficiency and innovation through the exploration of the ancient production form of natural object casting. She use raw materials to evolve old forms into new pieces; she improved what already existed.
Making miniature sculptures has always been a passion, as have wearable structures and jewellery. 3D-Design and manufacturing are often part of the artistic process, not just a means to an end. Organic, living structures are a great source for inspiration.
Jeweller, Steve Alexis seeks to communicate ingrained notions of desire through his work, a longing both insatiable and unguided. Corresponding with this urge, he intends to sway and turn with this feeling, responding through the act of making. Steve is unable to leave this drive unaddressed. Thus, paradoxically enough, he makes to realize why he makes. By recontextualizing and elevating the mundane, Steve hopes to portray notions of influence and fervor through sculptural jewelry forms.
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Nicole Bauer, Germany
Minimalistic and pure, this is how the current work of Nicole Bauer presents itself. Expansive pieces, reduced only to the line, create a connection with the wearer, resulting from their flexible links and the lightness of the material. Its charm lies in the simplicity of its construction. Dispensing with all additives, the recurring elements are linked together unfussy and nearly invisible to geometric-graphic outlines.
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Anne G.wels, France
After 5 years of studies in jewelry at Amblard school (valence) Anne Genin started her brand Anne G.wels. Anne finds joy in testing materials and always trying to challenge herself with new experiments. The main subjects of her work are Intimacy and Movement. Anne enjoys the interactions with jewels, and the ability to give them life. In her submission to AA-Collected's Jewellery // Sculpture III exhibition, Anne's work is a collaboration with her life's partner Leonardo Ferro.
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FRAMMENTI DESIGN, Italy
Emma Carrau Bueno, the designer behind FRAMMENTI DESIGN, was born in Barcelona. Moving to Milan she began a personal research on the contamination between fashion, art and design, driven by the desire to create a discipline without boundaries where all these elements can be merged.
Jewellery thus becomes a way to experiment and search for new spaces, surfaces and shapes. "Frammenti" is a project of thoughts related to memory and time, a journey combining architecture and nature, geometry and imperfections.
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Ritva Kara, Finland
Ritva Kara a Finnish carpenter, jewellery designer and artist. Her works are jewelry, small objects and mosaics. Ritva's expression is characterized by curved organic shapes and colorful. Intuition, play and skilful handling of materials are reflected in all of her works. To Ritva, it is important that jewellery are not only aesthetically pleasing but also actually wearable.
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Anouck Van Puyvelde, Belgium
Anouck's designs are inspired by the transitoriness and the beauty of wear and tear. She sees the perfect in the imperfect. Structures in her daily life, such as a cracked tile or a rusty piece of metal, fascinate and inspire her. With Anouck's designs she aims to make people aware of the beauty of the imperfect. She wants to prove that it can be equally beautiful, or even more beautiful.
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STEELVOLL, Austria
Born in Budapest, jewellery designer and photographer Gabriella Nandori is the face behind the label STEELVOLL. She lives and works in Vienna and constantly creates new forms and expressions of art.
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Anna Zeibig, Hungary
Anna Zeibig is an interior designer turned jewelry artist. In her work she constantly searches for new materials and new techniques which excite her. Anna can be inspired by nature, architecture or even an object like a lamp, a piece of furniture, or just a simple texture. Her visual education in interior design helps her to find a way to express a story or a feeling in an object.
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Sadâ, Turkey
Sadâ is a textile and clothing designer who designs products that will not harm the environment, the human body and living things. She started her career designing clothes for children. Later, she designed fabric collections for many factories to be sold in Turkey and abroad. She is still producing freelance fabric printing designs. She has learned craft techniques (filigree, pearl inlay and fret saw cutting work) from jewelry masters for over four years. And she produced her own jewelry collections.
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Nahiot Hernandez, Italy
Nahiot Hernandez is a brand based in Stroncone-Italy created by the Architect and Jewellery Designer Nahiot Hernandez. Originally from Venezuela and since 2011 in Italy, collaborating with the haute couture collections in Rome and Milan. She created her own brand in 2017. A brand that combines handicraft with contemporaneity characterized by the use of geometric forms as an essential part of each object, making use of different materials depending on the formal aspect that she want to obtain from each one. Based on the experimentation of conventional materials that through their elaboration generate innovative pieces.
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Meristema Lab, Italy
Blurring boundaries among disciplines, Merıstėma Lab, founded by Annarita Bianco, is a experimental design studio. As in an alchemist laboratory, matter changes, substances melt, materials transform and suggestions coming from different field merge to assume a different state. Such as meristem - vegetal tissue containing undifferentiated cells - any concept could take a shape that crosses traditional design field: jewellery, graphic design or interior setting that hybridates traditional craft and technological progress, analogical and digital, biological and artificial.
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AVE Concept Jewelry, Germany
Anna van Eck is a jewelry and object designer. Trained as a goldsmith and retailer she found her passion in creating concepts for people to discover. With her designs she likes to surprise people with forms that contain unknown importance. Her products aim to become ones favorite. She created a typography where one can watch each letter turn into readable forms by repositioning their own lines. Letters are forms and forms are letters. Anna van Eck likes to combine digital and analog techniques. Going back and forth creating and crafting models with her hands, drawing or printing them on the computer, using all her skills to come up with a desirable piece.
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Yu-Chi Chang, Taiwan
Brought up in Taiwan, YuChi combines oriental ideas with a western design aesthetic. Wood is the main material, which she then combines with silver and resin. “The purpose of interlaying silver into wood is to express symbiosis relating to human life, or the water that nourishes natural forms that occur on wood, like moss. – in YuChi’s work she aims to combine oriental cultural ideas with western design aesthetics.”
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Charlotte Parent, France
Charlotte Parent is a jeweler living in Marseille. Her inspiration often starts with nature. Then, each piece is the opportunity for a small travel of research and exploration. Dealing with forms, structures, volumes, materials, she likes to be surprised, and this path is a way to tell a story. Through the very sculptural aspect of her jewels, she aims at transmitting physical sensations.
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JF PROJECT, Italy
JF PROJECT is a brand born in Mantua from Italian jeweller Jessica Grespi alongside Francesca Grespi. JF PROJECT is a contemporary jewelry collection that combines the tailoring tradition with the research for unique design accessories. Every single piece holds a memory, a feeling, a part of yourself. Every jewel is unique and totally handmade.
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Arson Metal, Germany
Arson Metal is a metal workshop project started by Xavier Stentz-Baumler in 2018. Alongside the production of handcrafted objects, Arson Metal explores the different possibilities of constructing narratives using design, documentation and mixed media techniques.
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Sofie Van Belle, Belgium
From her background as a visual artist and knowledge of techniques and materials, Sofie Van Belle's own visual language rose and ultimately translated into jewellery creation. Her work initially starts from rational thinking, but as the process progresses, intuition and feeling play an increasingly important role. The properties and limitations of the material also influence the end result.
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SURI JEWELRY, Italy
SURI is an identity conceived and created by Giulia Vecchiato. It is both a brand and an idea consisting of contemporary jewelry featuring unique handmade pieces. The pieces of SURI are inspired by everything that concerns, influences, and moves fashion and contemporary art.
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AQTO Design, Italy
Behind the AQTO brand is the eclectic figure of the Italian Piero Acuto, musician, composer and graphic designer; Piero is an artist who manages to use, in an almost subliminal way, worlds and single elements only apparently unapproachable. This stylistic code, we find, in the AQTO collection: a set of singular jewels created, even before by the hands, from a careful eye to the transforming potentialities of the objects of common use. After a rigorous artisan procedure, without the use of welding or casting, this metamorphosis of materials ends in strictly unique jewels.
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Sara Marzialetti, Italy
Sara is an Italian jewellery artist who studied contemporary jewellery arts and crafts in Copenhagen (DK), coming from a previous background as a natural scientist. Sara enjoys playing with the power of jewellery to adorn and provoke curiosity, shaping communication between wearers and observers. She conceives while in a sculptural way, little wearable pieces of art, containers of stories and poetry. She expresses herself in both graphical and organic pieces, often playing with the properties of metals and other materials to naturally express different textures and colours. The natural world and its shapes are an endless source of inspiration for her creations.
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Mervi Kurvinen, Finland
In many of Mervi Kurvinen's works the inspiration comes from everyday observations and experiences. In her art she uses powerful contradictions and combinations and loves to find precious from worthless. Mervi Kurvinen quotes Dr Seuss: `In my world, everyone ́s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies ́.
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Yael Frankel, Israel
Yael Frenkel is a jewish-israeli woman, a jewelry designer and jewelery maker. Yael views jewelry as something that defines the wearer in a certain way. It is a form of expression less permanent than a tattoo but more so than clothing. Most of her work consist of symbols and familiar icons that she merges together to create a hybrid that carries a new message. The mechanism of Yael's jewelry is ergonomic and directly body related as the body of the wearer completes the whole story.
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Marika started her creative career as a stone sculptor and has since explored a range of materials in her artistic practice and more recently has focused on jewellery making. In 2017 Marika established Studio LUX, a jewellery studio located in the Macedon Ranges in Victoria, Australia. Marika’s interest is in creating bold works that challenge concepts of traditional jewellery design.
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Laia Varela, Spain
When creating her jewelry, Laia Varela looks for beauty, her idea of beauty. Her jewelry pieces express her personality: simple, natural, uncluttered, true to the idea of "less is more”. Her designs are timeless, minimalist and geometric designed for sophisticated people. Curious by nature, she tries to get the juice of everything around her. Architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, ... these are some of her sources of inspiration. Behind each piece there is a previous work of reading, visualization, lectures... on various topics and interests of the author.
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Xihan Zhai, China
Xihan Zhai is a Chinese artist who focuses on the research of fog based on nature and culture. She works with diverse media such as installations, videos, photography and material based jewellery. She uses opaque materials to express her experience with hazy fog. She has exhibited her artwork in China, Greece, Spain, Poland, Italy, and Norway. She thinks of her artwork as a partner that can take her to experience and discover the world.
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Jewellery TJ, Croatia
Jewellery TJ was created for the love of form and design, and this love is carried through the production of jewelry more than 18 years now. Every piece of jewelry; necklace, bracelet or ring is made by hand and approached individually, making each piece of jewellery TJ a unique one. Acting in synergy with people, the designer of this brand seeks to create positive changes through the production of beautiful and unique jewelry.
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Arianaz Design, Iran
With academic backgrounds in Sculpture, Psychology and Jewelry design, Arianaz Dehghan developed her own brand “Arianaz Design” in 2014 and has been working as an independent jewelry designer since then. Being fascinated by local lives and stories, Arianaz found herself committed to create authentic artworks which is not only visually appraised by the modern art lovers but also is a reflection of an ethical culture or lifestyle.
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Larry Watson, USA
With almost 40 years of experience in engraving and jewelry design, L.S. Watson brings his expertise to the wholesale marketplace with the debut of his new collection called Minimal Surfaces. His background includes working extensively with prestigious retailers such as Neiman Marcus to create high-quality jewelry for their discerning customers. His design expertise has resulted in commissions from the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Bin Shehab Saadah, Saudi Arabia
Bin Shehab Saadah's work is about “everything!” Her works are her voice, a powerful interpretation of her deepest thoughts, hidden emotions, fears and interests. Her jewellery is inspired by her daily life and attempt to make sense of the world. Her pieces express her wishes and dreams for a better world, as they portray her celebrations of happy occasions, sadness, and frustration, as she explores life’s dualities.
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Claudia Rannow, Germany
Claudia Rannow is a trained freelance artist and designer based both in Berlin and Vienna. As an artist, she has the great opportunity to move freely in all disciplines available. Her wealth of experience includes theatre work, stage and costume, jewellery design, exhibition design, object construction, gilding, photography, drawing and text work. Her inspiration draws from words, pictures, objects, situations, or really anything.
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Carolina Silva, Chile
Based in Chile, Carolina Silva specializes in contemporary jewelry. Carolina transforms her studies, contemplation, and conceptual analysis into portable and exponible objects.
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Boya Yu, China
Boya Yu presents contemporary jewellery where she is working in the ‘third space’; a place between Chinese and Western cultures. Her aim is to extend insight - though hybrid work – charting connections between the aesthetic traditions of Western and Chinese cultures; including shared interests in areas including simplicity of form.
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EBRU YŪKSEL, Turkey
Having an engineering background and experience in managerial positions of export marketing & sales for years, Istanbul (Turkey) based jewelry designer Ebru Yūksel decided to follow her dreams and founded the brand ‘Style & Soul’. Her rebellion is towards the everyday rush and consumption in huge amounts, with no appreciation at all. She describes her works that; “against this complexity, proudly on the contrary, focus and simplicity is just where my designs are based on. During the production of one-of-a kind handmade pieces, time stands still in the presence of flame and patience is a must. You just have to stop in the rush and watch the metal flowing as if it is dancing with the flame”.
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Yael Kaduri, Israel
In jewelry, Yael finds a special way of expression. The possibility of inserting a whole world, ideas and meanings, within a relatively small object is what fascinates her. The so called "jewel" of her work combines accuracy, enigmatic essence and delicacy with communication and body-awareness. Her theoretical background and fascination of nature are her sources of inspiration. Reflective research is a point of departure for her intuitive creation.
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Sława Tchórzewska, Poland
From Poland, Sława Tchórzewska makes whimsical, colourful and label-defying pieces. While suggesting everyday experiences, her jewellery is just as comfortable in a haute couture environment. She uses conventional and alternative materials such as foil, plastic, wood, resin etc., and she is an expert in Baltic Amber. Influenced by nature, she relies on those experiences that touch her soul to inspire her jewellery. Always colourful, never dull, wearing them inspires confidence.
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GENOS Gioielli, Venezuela
Born in Caracas in 1969, Adriana Del Duca grew up in a thriving cultural period filled with experiences and contemporary artworks. She dedicates herself to theater research, cinema, writing, and her love for non-traditional jewelry. Deciding to further her jewelry passion, in 2014, Adriana channeled her creative potential in a single artistic path: contemporary jewelry and became the primary designer of the label Genos Gioielli.
Adriana's artistic work is focused on gender inequality. Through her work, she intends to break the taboo of female sexuality in a predominantly patriarchal society. Her pieces contain and visualize sexual taboos and connect to us by objectifying emotions, those from the maker and the observer. Her jewellery seeks to empower women by exalting the erotic as beauty, a healing principle, and the feminine essence.
Alison Brown
Alison Brown meshes the known with the unknown to create new ways of working, using sustainable techniques, mindful of resources and wastefulness. She incorporates the broken, rustic and the overlooked as conveyors of time and memory. As a bricoleur she see possibilities in the mismatch and discordance of these bits; using porcelain with a backstory of strength, purity, and expensive whiteness, subverting it with rusty metal bits, nails, causing a clash of ideas: dissonance. The discarded married with ethereal beauty. Transforming the commonplace: seeing something extraordinary in the ordinary.
Claudia Steiner
Surface design, contrasts, form, nature, color, architecture, materiality, and hidden details are all common threads that run through Claudia's work. The most important element demonstrated in her pieces is the creation of space and contours in order to combine geometric and ornamental forms.
Daixa Somed
Behind the Daixa Somed jewellery firm, there is the founder, the artisan and the designer Daixa Morro. This Majorcan woman living in Barcelona gives life to a brand that not only grows between handcrafted and exclusive designs, but also looks after a theme that is becoming more important today: sustainability. Daixa Somed is that brand where each design is its own, created by hand, one by one, from the design of the sketch to the creation of the final piece, following the most traditional processes of jewellery in combination with modern processes and most importantly, following the criteria of Ethical Jewellery, promoting long-term social and environmental sustainability.
ELIRD
Ena Mulavdic and Ebrahim Mohammadian Elird are contemporary jewellery designers and makers at jewellery studio ELIRD. Their work explores life in every single way – from birth to death, with all the love, hate, happiness, sadness, excitement, good, bad, care, prosper, decline, lightness, darkness and numerous other conditions and situations that we all are exposed to during our lifetime. Each ELIRD creation is unique and inimitably designed, making them a significant art piece. Their unprecedented esthetics derives from a prosperous mélange of artistic and design skills, while freely using a wide variety of materials.
Eva Fernandez
We live surrounded by an overflowing man-made world of objects which pass fleetingly through our lives without acknowledgement. Through Eva's work, she aims to help people appreciate the ordinary and our man-made surroundings by stimulating curiosity and perception. She achieves this by taking inspiration from our manufactured environment and moving ordinary objects (or features of them) out of their usual contexts or configurations to portray social and political matters.
Gena Tudor
Gena Tudor is a contemporary jewelry artist from Bucharest, Romania who began her career on film sets among costumes and special effects at an early age. Her work is based on different types of metals and one of her favorite techniques is lost wax casting which gives her the possibility to create organic and fluid forms.
Iro Kaskani
Iro Kaskani's work is based on continuous experimentation, either with the materials or techniques of the jewellery or with messages or concepts of its design. Iro sees jewellery as humans’ best companions. Jewellery accompanies us when we are alone or socializing with its aesthetics, materiality, and connotations that combine with its presence.
Lassy Fair
Behind the Brand Lassy Fair, is the designer Sabine Zechner. In a unique combination of innovative design, traditional gold-smithing and modern production techniques, Lassy Fair creates pieces of jewellery that speak their own language. The design of each of her pieces starts with archetypal motifs, some of which, have already existed for centuries and have occurred in various cultures. Lassy Fair has taken scenes from fairy tales, myths, and legends that have been passed on from generation to generation, researching the meaning of various metaphors and drawing inspiration from the important ones. Her jewellery not only reflects these metaphors but also draws attention to pressing issues and underlying problems in society.
Lynne Speake
Lynne Speak, the founder of Precious Collective, lives on a boat in a tiny Cornish village surrounded by peeling paint, rusting metal, woodlands, rivers, and nature. Her 'wearable sculptures' relate directly to and are inspired by where she live and the environment she surrounds herself with.
It is important to Lynne to be as environmentally friendly as possible. She aims use materials she finds or that recycled or gifted.
Mies Nobis
Mies Nobis is a conceptual jewellery label drawing on art, sculpture & fashion as inspiration. Australian born, Berlin based designer Millicent Nobis studied fashion design in Sydney, Australia before moving to Berlin where her label Mies Nobis was founded in 2012. Starting with inspiration taken from the shapes and forms of tribal jewellery; human and animal bone, horns and teeth and moving into study of human form; Romanesque muscles cut in marble and De Vinci's anatomical studies. Each collection reflects a fascination with the human form and its adornment as well as an experimentation with varying materials.
Robin Shelton
Robin Shelton's work showcases his thorough understanding of not only of the conceptual, historical, and aesthetic frameworks within which a piece of work fits, but also of the traditional techniques of making in order to convey these concepts. His practice has continued to explore and intertwine these inextricable tenets to this day and although his output of jewellery is diverse, the theme that holds all his pieces together as a whole is the skilled execution of personal belief, concept, philosophy, and preference. Through this command, Robin aims always to produce objects which are both beautiful and thought-provoking.
Seth Damm
Seth Damm is the founder of the brand, Neon Zinn. His jewellery focuses on the unseen potentials in various substances. When he began to consider rope as more than an everyday utilitarian material, he set his mind to experimenting with its wearable possibilities. Early simple knotted loops evolved into more intricate patterns incorporating hidden stitches, intentional application of dye color, and tightly bound lengths of rope using yarn and wire. As Seth navigates his way through the landscape of art, fashion, and design his focus remains centered on the human aspect of design. An item of jewellery can be a strong aspirational signifier and one comprised of rope is a complex statement, one that embraces peculiarity, hidden strength, and unexpected lightness and beauty.
STUDIO MËGĀDEŠK
The artist/designer behind STUDIO MËGĀDEŠK, Elva Olafsdottir, builds upon her background of growing up in the Icelandic highlands and her training at European art academies as she weaves together a narrative of nature and contemporary human condition in a playful yet sophisticated manner. Using materials such as porcelain, that lasts through centuries and may be discovered by archeologists in the future, together with concepts of cross cultural references and evolutionary speculations.
Susanne Hammer
Susanne Hammer's works are characterized by a clear, minimalist designs however, in many cases they seem experimental, treading on the border of visual arts. Through her jewellery, tradition is questioned critically and ironically, and the familiar is analyzed and reinterpreted, providing the viewer and prospective wearer with new ways of seeing and wearing her pieces.