Jewelry made by artist who have focused their main practices in other areas is often referred to as artist jewelry. These makers, and how they approach jewelry, opens up productive conversations for anyone involved in/with jewelry. A primary one: is jewelry a field, a format, a discipline, something else, or some amalgamation? These makers bring […]
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Melbourne has a gallery space run by maker, thinker, writer, and curator Meredith Turnbull. Alta Forma opened in 2023. It shows not only contemporary jewelry but works that expand on what jewelry is and can be. At Alta Forma, audiences engage with a wide range of object-based and visual art practices where crossovers are encouraged. Vicki Mason:
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Zhipeng Wang is swimming in jewelry accolades! In the recent past, the Chinese artist has taken the BKV 1st prize, first place for the Montebello Award, and the Preziosa Young Design Competition Award. This year, he won the Herbert Hofmann Prize—and that, only two years after graduating with a master’s degree from the Academy of
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In April, Ted Noten opened his exhibition, Thirty-six Years on the Move / aka Route 36, at Galerie Marzee. In it, he presents one or several objects from each of the 36 years of his creative career, removing the hierarchy of “important” and “unimportant” projects. He placed them all together on a long strip of
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“I like it. What is it?” This is the question Atty Tantivit asks herself when she encounters a piece of jewelry that draws her in. She’s often attracted to jewelry that resists immediate understanding, pieces that are complex, conflicting, or quietly provocative. They do not reveal themselves at once. Instead, they spark curiosity. Interestingly, when she wears
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Heidi Lowe Gallery operates as both an exhibition space and educational platform within the field of contemporary jewelry. With its new location at 119 Front Street in Lewes, DE, US, the gallery supports artists through exhibitions, workshops, and public programming. In this interview, Heidi Lowe discusses the gallery’s development, its structure, and its role in
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Switzerland’s Benedict Haener is a rising star. Shortly after his goldsmith’s apprenticeship, he took first place in the technology category of the Swiss Vocational Championships. The year after graduating from the XS-SCHMUCK program at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, he was awarded a 2024 Talente — Masters of the Future prize for his jewelry. And
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Espace Borax, in Vevey, Switzerland, was founded in 2021 by the Einzweidrei collective. Contemporary jewelry is a shared, self-taught passion for the nonprofit’s gallerists, Nicolas Christol and Mélane Zumbrunnen, who came to the field with backgrounds in photography and arts management. The 12th-century building housing Borax is unique and idiosyncratic. It formerly served as not
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Join AJF for a conversation on Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture, the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the artist who designed the jewelry for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther film franchise. Organized by the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), where it was co-curated by the Museum’s Barbara Paris Gifford and Sebastian
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On International Women’s Day, the German publisher of fine craft books spotlighted jewelry by three female artists. Allgaier gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which featured 16 talks over five days. Most of the series took place in the booth AJF shared with Arnoldsche Art
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The Estonian artist introduces some of the world’s greatest manipulators and illusionists in the field of jewelry art. The artist as a fraudster, a trickster—not in order to deceive us, but to show how easily we believe. Veenre gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which
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With tongue firmly in cheek, the American jeweler reflects on what he finds both interesting and irritating about European-influenced studio jewelry. Lewis gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which featured 16 talks over five days. Most of the series took place in the booth AJF
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