Exhibitions Archive - post-Victorian individual jewellers
Individual jewellers
Akelo's treasures
This exhibition will celebrate a quarter of a century’s work from Andrea Cagnetti, who works under the artistic name of Akelo – the Greek god of water. Regarded as one of the most talented masters in goldsmithing, Cagnetti was born in Corchiano in Italy. He creates jewellery and golden objects that combine traditional techniques, with a look that shows influence from the Etruscans and Greeks.
2/11/2011 – 20/11/2011
Bentley & Skinner, London W1J 0DX, UK
Gilbert Albert: Jeweller of Nature
Taking after the movements initiated around the turn of the 20th century, heralding the advent of contemporary craft jewellery with his use of novel materials, the Geneva-based jeweller Gilbert Albert (born 1930) developed a style deeply rooted in nature. The exhibition proposes to explore this connection through a selection of “naturalistic” collections (crystals, corals, fossils, unpolished stones and gems, scarabs, etc.), as well as prominent examples of modern jewellery (Art Nouveau jewellery, Geneva School of Industrial Arts, etc.), all part of the MAH collections. These pieces re-contextualise Gilbert Albert’s work within the frame of evident infl uences and less obvious inspirations. Though the master was known as a very critical witness of his time, famous for his “swiping claws” as much as for his “interchangeable beads”, the multiplicity of his vocabulary (beading, wrinkling, organic chasework, navette cut and fi ngerprinting, etc.) offers a new take on jewellery sets, both baroque and highly cultured. The exhibition relies on an extensive body of works donated to the museum in 2016 by the Gilbert Albert Foundation and will mark the master’s 90th birthday. To echo his favourite theme, the scenography will evoke luxuriant greenery.
10/07/2020 – 15/11/2020
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Rue Charles-Galland 2, 1206 Genève, Switzerland
Giampaolo Babetto Jewellery 1970-2011
A series of contemporary exhibitions on the ground floor of the Museum im Palais kicks off with jewellery by Giampaolo Babetto (b. 1947 Padua), who has been a force on the avantgarde international goldsmith scene since the late 1960s. His works are notable for their geometric shapes with special gold alloys, surface structures and colour highlights.
11/05/2011 – 25/09/2011
Museum im Palais, Graz, Austria
Giampaolo Babetto - Jewelry
As one of the protagonists of the so called School of Padua, Giampaolo Babetto (b.1947) has affected the vanguard goldsmith’s scene with his experimental, expressive, but wearable jewellery since the late 60s.
6/03/2010 - 30/05/2010
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Robert Baines: Living Treasure and Fabulous Follies
Renowned goldsmith Robert Baines is recognized as a "Living Treasure" in his native Australia and his work has been exhibited and collected internationally throughout his long career. In this intriguing exhibition, he tells three "jewellery stories," groupings that explore the way which artistic styles and forms change over time. Baines is also a specialist in the study of archaeometallurgy (ancient jewellery production) and he incorporates ancient techniques into his art and the presented narratives. In celebration of the connections between ancient and modern art that are highlighted in Baines' work, a selection from the Eskenazi Museum's ancient jewellery collection will be on display in an area adjacent to the exhibition.
27/08/2020 - 14/03/2021
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, 1133 E. Seventh Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7509, USA
Fake News and True Love. Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines
It’s easy to fall into the trap of sensational headlines. Even careful and informed readers must work to resist the pull of fake news, a phenomenon currently dominating American media. In his solo exhibition Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines, the Australian contemporary artist explores this issue through the lens of jewellery. By making up and “fact-checking” news stories to accompany his works, Baines manipulates what is accepted as truth to address the influence that fake news has on our perception of events. Robert Baines has shaped the fields of contemporary jewellery and jewellery history for over forty years. In 2010, he was named a Living Treasure-Master of Australian Craft for his significant contributions. In addition to teaching and maintaining his own contemporary jewellery practice, he studied ancient jewellery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and masterworks in several other international institutions. Through these experiences, he has essentially learned to brilliantly copy jewellery — from the ancient to the modern — making him uniquely suited to a show of this caprice.
16/10/2018 - 3/03/2019
MAD Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, USA
Friedrich Becker - Zum Spielen geboren
Friedrich Becker, 1922 to 1997, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on May 25, 2022. In an extensive anniversary exhibition in the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, an overview of the oeuvre of the goldsmith and kinetic artist is offered and contextualized with numerous media stations. Becker didn't want to make jewelry "that has always been made," as his wife Hilde Becker said. He wanted to create something new. His pieces should have their own form, but at the same time never lose their decorative function.
Friedrich Becker’s extraordinary jewellery creations are characterised by invisible settings with interchangeable stones, variable brooches and pins, and stainless steel combined with synthetic gemstones, through to kinetic jewellery and objects.
24/07/2022 - 16/10/2022
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany
Edge of the Sublime: Jamie Bennett
Jamie Bennett is an internationally recognized metalsmith whose painterly innovations have greatly expanded the field of fired enamel into a medium for contemporary expression. This first-ever retrospective explores Bennett’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Bennett’s related production of enameled wall reliefs and other works on paper painted in oil and encaustic is explored in this exciting overview of the artist’s career.
22/03/2009 - 6/09/2009
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
3/11/2009 – 28/02/2010
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA
Bent, Cast, and Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia
Former Cranbrook Academy of Art student and metalsmithing instructor Harry Bertoia (1915–1978) has received international acclaim for his metal furniture and sculpture, but his exploration of the medium originated in jewelry design. Out of the hundreds of jewelry works attributed to Bertoia, the majority was produced during his years at Cranbrook, offering an early glimpse of a creative vision that would crystallize as his career matured. This exhibition examines the artist’s experimentations with form, dimension, and fabrication on a concentrated and bankable scale, establishing Bertoia as a pioneer of the American Studio Jewelry movement and a master of elevating fashionable adornment to objet d’art.
14/03/2015 – 29/11/2015
Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Avenue, P.O. Box 801, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
3/05/2016 - 25/09/2016
MAD. The Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, USA
Sofia Björkman - Landscapes
Sofia Björkman is a jewellery artist from Stockholm in Sweden. After graduation from Konstfack 1998 she started PLATINA, a gallery and studio for art jewellery. Since then, she has been working as an artist, gallery owner and curator combined with all kinds of activities and projects within the jewellery field. In the profession she meets a lot of people that comment on what they see. This influences her and affects her artistic practice, often the comments form the basis for future work. This is a way for her to understand works and to express the experience of being an artist and a curator at the same time. She says that wearable jewellery can easily be moved from one context to another and can therefore cause other reactions than exhibited in art environments. Mobility and flexibility make jewellery art unique as an artform and broadens the potential for a piece to have impact and elicit various reactions. At Bornholms Center for Kunsthåndværk & Design, Grønbechs Gård, she will show jewellery and three-dimensional objects that move between body-related works, installations, drawings and paintings. The work is based on comments on jewellery, crafts and artworks, landscapes, and human behaviour in nature. The human body can be seen as a landscape for jewellery, the exhibition space as the environment for the exhibited objects and together they all form part of a larger landscape.
11/09/2021 - 30/01/2022
Bornholms Center for Kunsthåndværk, Grønbechs Gård 4, 3790 Hasle, Denmark
Companions – Jewellery Created by Alexander Blank
Over the years, representations of animal heads and cartoon characters have become the trademark of Alexander Blank (*1975). His »Memento Juniori« pendants, crafted from handcarved solid foam, silver and cotton, reveal that he likes to be carried away into fantasy worlds and allows himself to be inspired by his curiosity about the unknown. The exhibition titled »Companions« also shows recent creations by this jewellery artist that are characterized by their materials’ compelling aesthetics. Combining shapes and colours to form abstract pictures for the wearer’s body, these pieces represent a visual mirror of the artist’s lifeworld. Because for Blank, creating jewellery is a way of reflecting upon people, exploring perspectives beyond the traditional – and telling stories.
25/07/2025 - 5/10/2025
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany
Liv Blåvarp: Jewellery
Liv Blåvarp (b. 1956) creates jewellery made of wood. Her pieces are often large, expressive and colourful. She works with a wide variety of surfaces, ranging from smooth and shiny to densely decorated areas. She selects the type of wood she uses according to its degree of hardness or softness, as well as taking into account the structure of each particular piece of wood. Her preferred species to work with are maple, birch, walnut, lemon and palisander. Her jewellery consists of individual pieces that are joined to form a whole. Thus although they are voluminous, they are also flexible and movable, and easy to wear. Sometimes identifiable forms appear in the jewellery, such as a bird’s beak, a banana or a leaf. Liv Blåvarp’s works evoke associations with nature, folk art, and life in vibrant urban centres. A book will be published in connection with the exhibition.
17/06/2017 – 29/10/2017
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Stortorget 2, Postboks 264, 2602 Lillehammer, Norway
Onno Boekhoudt - Work in progress; The legacy of Onno Boekhoudt - jewellery and studies
The exhibition of Boekhoudt’s legacy offers a view behind the walls of his studio. Not only does it show the customary and nicely polished works, it also offers a glimpse of the artist at work. All the objects on display form part of the collection of the CODA Museum. Onno Roelof Boekhoudt (, 1944 –2002) was trained at the renowned technical school in Schoonhoven and the Kunst- und Werkschule in Phorzheim. He gained international recognition as a designer of jewellery, but he also made objects, installations and drawings. It was not so much the end result, but rather the process, the search and the path towards it that mattered to him.
4/09/2010 - 6/12/2010
Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Transformation des Alltäglichen - Esther Bott
Transformation of the mundane - the work of Esther Bott.
28/01/2010 - 4/04/2010
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany
Christina Brade. Schmuck
This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the artist who died unexpectedly in 2007. It unites about 80 decorative objects from its own collection, supplemented by loans from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin, the GRASSI - Museum of Arts and Crafts of Leipzig and the estate of the artist.
05/07/09 – 19/09/09
Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany
The Story So Far – Helen Britton
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
Helen Britton is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice includes jewellery, sculpture, drawings, stencils and installations, and is informed by popular culture and folk art, threatened traditions, environmental destruction and human anxiety.
Between 2017 and 2019 Helen traveled three times to Australia to document the house of her great Aunt and Godmother Kath Carr on the Clarence river (Ngunitiji, Yagel Country). Kath taught Helen how to make collages with pressed Australian flowers that she had collected, or with metal fillings from the lathe in the shed, to paint on porcelain which was her greatest hobby, and to make jewellery. Her house was full of wonders, shells, gemstones, driftwood, dried seaweed and fish. When she died her house was locked and left completely intact. Helen's detailed photographic investigation was a journey back to the beginnings of her creative practice.
This project, titled The Story So Far, takes as its starting point this photographic essay creating a network of connections between that time and this. The work will also comment on the rich and complex world of country women, of a time of creative frugality that formed Helen's early experience of Australia, of lost possibility, and of a colonial past and present, still so deeply problematic. New work, painting, installation, jewellery, drawings and objects will feature in the exhibition alongside photographs of Kath's house.
6/02/2026 - 24/04/2026
Watt Space Gallery, Northumberland House, Cnr King and Auckland Streets, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
Helen Britton: Interstices
A 25-year survey of the work of renowned jeweller Helen Britton, including new works that draw inspiration from Western Australia’s coastline. Now residing in Munich, Britton has developed an international reputation for her innovative practice as a contemporary artist working in metal and found materials.
11/02/2017 - 15/04/2017
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, M001, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy (cnr Fairway), Crawley - 6009, Western Australia
Calder Jewelry
Calder Jewelry is the first exhibition of its kind devoted exclusively to the jewelry work by the American artist Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976). During his lifetime Calder produced approximately 1,800 pieces of brass, silver, and gold body ornaments, often embellished with found objects such as beach glass, ceramic shards, and wood. Best known for his sculptures and mobiles this exhibition explores Calder’s lifetime production of wearable art pieces which he made for his family and friends. The exhibition comprises some 100 pieces including necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings and tiaras.
9/12/2008 - 1/03/2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
1/04/09 – 21/06/09
IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
18/07/2009 - 4/01/2010
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA , USA
29/01/2010 - 18/04/2010
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
From small-scale works on paper and jewelry to monumental sculptures and one of the artist’s largest mobiles, Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act is a large-scale exhibition of the work of the American master sculptor. Drawn primarily from private collections, the exhibition includes more than 80 pieces many of which have rarely been seen by the public.
15/10/2009 – 11/04/2010
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
The Discerning Eye: Focus on Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder (trained as an engineer) challenged the long-held notion that sculpture was static and monumental. His inventive, colorful, animated “mobiles” epitomize the innovative, optimistic spirit of early-twentieth century modernism. In all of Calder’s mobiles, his objective was not just to represent or refer to nature, but to capture its dynamic actions and unpredictable, living systems. This exhibition will include mobiles, jewelry, and works on paper drawn from Bay Area collections, including the holdings of several of the Museum’s founders and longtime supporters.
1/08/2009 - 13/12/2009
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Jewels in a Gem: Luz Camino at the Hispanic Society Museum
This exhibition features the inspiring works of Spanish high jewellery designer Luz Camino, who is celebrating her 50th year in the profession. Her colourful and multiform creations, rooted in Spanish culture and heritage, offer great parallels and eloquent dialogues with the approach and universe of Sorolla, from whom Camino occasionally draws inspiration. Within the surroundings of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s “Vision of Spain” gallery, this exhibition showcases unique and limited-edition pieces from Camino’s debut in 1973, when she enrolled in Madrid’s Escuela Sindical de Joyería, becoming the first woman to be named “Sacador de Fuego.”
Camino is known for using unusual materials: resins, titanium, porcelain, blown glass, unusual stones such as vanadinite, bismuth, and even ball bearings. Visitors will find these elements in the works on display in the exhibition, in a variety of jewelry techniques. Camino has recovered some of these techniques from the past—plique-à-jour, for example, a technique often employed by the French jewelry designer, René Lalique—pushing the technique to its limits in order to achieve her own aesthetic, such as setting diamonds within enamel. On other occasions, she explores contemporary approaches and uses cutting-edge technologies such as 3D design and printing.
18/05/2023 – 3/09/2023
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Audubon Terrace, 613 W 155th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
Joaquim Capdevila. Jewellery 1959-2019
Joaquim Capdevila (1944), well versed in the different jewellery trades, is a creator who expresses himself through the visual language of jewellery. His creations, unique items, go well beyond the traditional concept of jewellery, not only by dispensing with precious metals and applying new materials – plastic, hide, fabric, stones, wood, rubber, copper – but also by using gold and silver jointly with acrylic paint or Japanese lacquer to provide them with great chromatic uniqueness. Capdevila's pieces are unmistakeable for their visual quality, halfway between painting and sculpture. Art jewels, object jewels, experiment jewels, personalised jewels and unique jewels are labels that may apply to his work. He has experimented with every type of material and their uniqueness lies to a great extent in the application of colour to his pieces through painting. However, Capdevila does not make painted jewels, but rather merges the two art forms in a single work. His jewels are just a visual expression of critical reflections and lived experiences, compositions with a free and personal format.
28/09/2019 – 17/11/2019
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38 08018 Barcelona, Spain
Anton Cepka - Kinetic jewellery
Born in Czechoslovakia, today Slovakia, in Šulekovo in 1936 Anton Cepka is one of the most important jewellery designers of the 20th century and one of the protagonists of the so-called artist jewellery movement. Today he is considered the doyen of Slovak and Czech jewellery design. Thanks to its connections with the Constructivist art form language, he remained for a long time one of the few designers untroubled by government interference. Silver, optical glass, stones and modern acrylic glass are the preferred materials of Anton Cepka. He created new, initially in relief setting, later with sculptural design, spatial concepts in the form of brooches and pendants. The surprise is in the addition of an element of movement and light, by which kinetic art first conceptually finds its way into jewellery art. The execution of the objects reflects his consummate craftsmanship, essential for Cepka's objects. Thanks to numerous national and international, private and institutional, lenders about 180 pieces of jewellery by Anton Cepkas from the period 1963 to 2005 can be shown for the first time in an exhibition.
14/03/2015 - 7/06/2015
Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer Straße 40, 80333 München, Germany
Wallace Chan
An exhibit of works by Wallace Chan of Hong Kong.
11/07/11 - October 2011
The GIA Museum, Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA
Divines joailleries, l’art de Joseph Chaumet (1852-1928)
In 2005, with assistance from Fonds national du patrimoine, Fonds régional d’acquisition des musées (Région Bourgogne) and private donations, the City of Paray-le-Monial was able to enrich the museum with 'Via Vitae' (the Way of Life), a monumental work by the goldsmith and jeweller Joseph Chaumet of Paris 1852-1928), made between 1894 and 1904. This major acquisition for the national heritage is classified as a National Treasure. Following this memorable acquisition, the exhibition "Divine jewellery. The Art of Joseph Chaumet (1852-1928)" is the opportunity to gather around the treasure other works by the goldsmith and unprecedented documentation. The participation of Chaumet International, and exceptional loans of Christus Vincit, gold medal winner at the 1900 World's Fair, the crowns of Hyeres and Montligeon, silver works from the Museum St. Nicolas de Vitre, and objects from private collections including documents and art in possession of the family, all contribute to make this an unprecedented exhibtion.
14/06/2014 - 4/01/2015
Musée du Hiéron, 13, rue de la Paix 71600 - Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France
Kevin Coates: A Bestiary of Jewels
Dr. Kevin Coates is a multi-talented artist-goldsmith and sculptor who creates virtuoso jewels in gold, precious stones, shells, and other exotic materials. His work is both exquisite and fantastical. Following his successful solo exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London in 2011, Coates has been working on an ambitious new project, “A Bestiary of Jewels”, pairing a creature with its significant human, with the jewel mounted in a bestiary ‘page’, in a poetic elaboration on the theme of the medieval encyclopaedias known as Bestiaries.
11/01/2014 - 30/03/2014
The Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK
12/04/2014 - 29/06/2014
Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1BB, UK
20/08/2014 - 19/10/2014
The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3LW UK
Time Regained: Works by Artist Goldsmith Kevin Coates
Known for his technical brilliance, and the symbolic imagery of his work, Kevin Coates is considered by many to be Britain’s foremost artist-goldsmith. Associate Artist at the Wallace Collection since 2007, Coates has spent the past four years channelling his creative energy and unique insights to the Collection’s works of art. The exhibition, ‘Time Regained’, will be a major London showing from this leading artist-goldsmith, and has been driven by one of Coates’s enduring preoccupations – the connection of Time with Art and Humanity, and our response to the artefacts left by others. Inspired directly by a dozen of the treasures from the Wallace Collection, Coates hopes that this exhibition will renew our ways of looking at all things: to stimulate the imagination, and not just the senses or the cultural responses, but to express the meaning of every object, its career, its experience of the humanity which has shaped it, revered and collected it, over the passage of time.
23/06/2011 - 25/09/2011
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Kat Cole: Meditations
Metalsmith Kat Cole captures quiet, fleeting moments in steel and glass, exploring the human experience through her exhibition, Meditations. She begins by cutting hand-drawn oval shapes from steel, embracing the imperfections of working this way. Using a rhythmic swinging hammer, Cole transforms the jagged edges of metal into soft, rounded forms. Eventually, the process leads to gleaming puddles of deep color. These rich enameled surfaces are set against bare, blackened steel. The resulting works reflect a search for peaceful moments in a chaotic world. For Cole, the repetitive physical act of creating this body of work provides intentional time to contemplate grief, loss, and how one builds a meaningful life.
16/11/2025 – 8/03/2026
Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive, Memphis, TN 38106, USA
Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line
Betty Cooke is a legend in the world of modernist jewellery. During her 70-year career, Cooke has remained true to a minimalist style that has won her awards, the devotion of loyal patrons, and representation in museum collections. This exhibition is the first major museum retrospective of the Baltimore artist’s work. It explores the themes, and expressions in Cooke’s jewelry practice, and spans the period from her earliest designs in the 1940s and ’50s to the present. Cooke grew up in Baltimore, attending the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she also taught for 22 years. Her first working location was a studio, showroom, and residence on Tyson Street, a few blocks from the Walters, which she had visited from childhood; the medieval armour collection was a particular favourite. In 1965, Cooke, with her husband and business partner, William O. Steinmetz (d. 2016), moved from Tyson Street to the Village of Cross Keys in Baltimore’s northern suburbs, where they opened The Store Ltd. Over the years her jewellery has been featured in Vogue and received two Diamonds Today awards from DeBeers. In 1996 she was made a Fellow of the American Craft Council. Below the surface of Cooke’s work are deeply personal, witty, and emotional meanings. She is inspired by the natural world, especially animals and birds, as well as kinetic forms, and uses materials as varied as metal tubing, enamel, wood, and gemstones. Cooke’s strong sense of composition underlies all of her work and is based in her conviction that with “a circle and a line, you can make anything.” 'Betty Cooke: The Circle and the Line' comprises approximately 160 objects drawn from public and private lenders and Cooke’s own collection. It approaches Cooke’s jewellery as individual works of art and in relation to the body as sculpture in motion. In addition to her jewellery, the exhibition will include photography, drawings, and design sketches.
19/09/2021 - 2/01/2022
The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Paola Crema. Fragments of Atlantis - small sculptures and jewellery
This exhibition presents part of the collection of jewelled-sculpture and sculptural-jewellery produced by the artist over the last few years using the technique of electro-forming.
27/04/2010 – 20/06/2010
Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy
Art of the Jewel: The Crevoshay Collection
Journey through the masterpieces of jewellery designer Paula Crevoshay, as we witness the transformation from mineral to gem to jewel. The Gem and Mineral Vault at NHM will feature over 50 luxurious pieces of jewellery — including earrings, bracelets, and brooches — made of California tourmaline, Montana sapphire, moonstone, pearl, and black diamond, among others. Inspired by Crevoshay's passion for art, science, and the natural world, the jewellery takes the form of plants, animals, and insects, including orchids, butterflies, spiders, and more. Discover the natural process of mineral creation, the characteristics that define a gem, and the art that transforms them into elegant jewels. Known as the "Queen of Colour," Paula Crevoshay is a renowned artist and jewellery designer. Her deep understanding of mineralogy, gemmology, and the art of carving and cutting stone transforms raw minerals into luxurious jewellery.
7/12/2018 - 12/05/2019
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
Illuminations : de la Terre au Bijou
This temporary exhibition presents a selection of extraordinary creations by the jeweller and artist Paula Crevoshay, placed in resonance with some exceptional examples of minerals in the collection of the Musée de Minéralogie MINES ParisTech (Paris Mineralogy Museum). While Crevoshay invites the visitor to a contemplative journey through her creations, the Mineralogy Museum proposes to discover the rough materials and the expertise of the artists and creators. The exhibition is located at the confluence of the founding ambitions of the museum: to present and explain to the public the relationship between minerals and manufactured goods. The museum’s collection was built to define resources that can be used in the service of the industry. Here, we speak of the luxury industry, which began in the heart of France, in Paris, the City of Light. It is therefore natural that these gems are exposed at the Mineralogy Museum, among the most fabulous minerals in the world.
9/11/2016 - 1/02/2017
Musée de Minéralogie, 60 boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris, France
Johanna Dahm. Rings
The Swiss-born Johanna Dahm active since the 1970s, has continually pursued new ways of defining what jewellery can be. Her work is characterized by an investigative and open approach, which has led her everywhere from quests for the integration of fabric and brooch, exploring light reflections on the body, to researching exotic jewellery techniques. Her work has explored many key practical and conceptual themes in jewellery. Dahm’s work is of the highest standard, and her intellectual understanding of both technique and creative process is one which she is able to articulate eloquently.
9/07/2011 - 16/10/2011
Design museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Same same, but different
Jewellery of Johanna Dahm. During her sabbatical leave as a professor at Pforzheim University she followed an apprenticeship to the Asante king's goldsmith in Ghana, and in Orissa in India she worked with Dokra casting masters. Her jewellery builds a bridge between cultures.
13/11/09 – 07/02/10
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
Siegfried De Buck: a career as a jewellery designer and silversmith
Siegfried De Buck will turn sixty on 24 August 2009. To mark this occasion, Design museum Gent will present an overview of his work. As a contemporary jewellery designer and silversmith, Siegfried De Buck plays an important role in the development of Belgian jewellery art. His career, in which craftsmanship and elegance are key, spans over 30 years and bears witness to a great personality. By virtue of his incessant drive for innovation, various style periods surface within his design. Led by his sense of materials, the designer joins precious and non-precious materials to form unique objects.
31/10/2009 – 07/02/2010
Design museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta
A seminal figure in the American Modernist Jewelry movement, De Patta was born in 1903 and moved to the Bay Area in 1923. Distinguished as one of the few American jewelers whose work and ideas were allied to the evolving ideas presented in the modern art movement, De Patta’s work was heavily influenced by the Constructivists and features architectural forms with simple lines, structure, and often movable parts. Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta features 50 jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, pictograms, and newly released archival material. OMCA holds the largest collection of De Patta’s work, most of which was donated by her husband, Eugene Bielawski, after the artist’s untimely death in 1964.
4/02/2012 - 14/05/2012
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA
5/06/2012 - 23/09/2012
Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, USA
Charlotte de Syllas
This year the foyer exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall features the work of Charlotte De Syllas, a unique artist jeweller. Gemstones – their shape and colour – are her palette and jade, opal, lapis lazuli, aquamarine and tourmaline her stones of choice. Her distinctive mastery in carving reveals the ethereal beauty of the stones. Charlotte is as much a sculptor as she is a jeweller. Predominantly made to commission, each of Charlotte’s organic forms sits perfectly on the body, echoing the client’s individuality. This is her first major solo exhibition and will show 73 pieces created between the 1960s and the present day. Her work can be found in important public collections such as the V&A, London; the Crafts Council, London; and the Swiss National Museum, Zurich. Charlotte’s relationship with the Goldsmiths’ Company has continued since the 1960s, when the Company purchased her student work. It also commissioned her in 2000 and 2014 to create major work in jade.
27/04/2016 – 22/07/2016
Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN, UK
Misshapes: The Making of Tatty Devine
Marking the 20th anniversary of the iconic British jewellery brand, this exhibition celebrates the history of Tatty Devine, a brand known for its fun acrylic jewellery, showing sketchbooks, photos, flyers, and jewellery from the now renowned fashion brand. Plus, two newly commissioned films will bring the story of Tatty Devine to life. Launched by Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden after graduating from the Chelsea College of Art, the brand was at the forefront of laser-cut jewellery in 1999. To this day, Tatty Devine’s jewellery is still hand made in the UK, creating bold statement pieces – many of which will be available to purchase in The Wilson shop.
7/09/2019 - 3/11/2019
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Clarence Street, Cheltenham GL50 3JT, UK
De Vroomen: Harmony in Colour and Form
This exhibition celebrates five decades of artistic collaboration between renowned husband and wife team, Dutch goldsmith Leo de Vroomen and British jewellery designer and artist Ginnie de Vroomen. It displays over 100 pieces of De Vroomen jewellery, sketches reflecting the creative process, as well as Ginnie’s vivid paintings inspired by nature and the urban landscape. Bold, sophisticated jewellery with flowing lines is placed in conversation with polychromatic abstract art.
12/04/2017 – 26/07/2017
The Goldsmiths' Company, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN, UK
Komposition der Träume - Georg Dobler - Composition of Dreams
Since the beginning of his creative work in 1980, Georg Dobler, jewellery artist and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim, has dealt with geometric shapes. Even when he moved to naturalistic elements, he remained faithful to geometry. Naturalism, a phenomenon of Art Nouveau, Dobler understood to interpret in a completely new and fascinating way to a young generation of jewellery designers, as a pioneer in interpreting or celebrating vegetable forms which merge later in an amalgam of branches, fruits or flowers. A breathtaking journey through 30 years of jewellery design in different creative approaches, which ultimately emerge in a symbiosis of all his jewellery creations.
30/06/2011 – 11/09/2011
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany
Georg Dobler – Schmuck 1980 bis 2010
Georg Dobler - Jewellery 1980-2010
Geometric and floral elements characterize the jewellery of Georg Dobler. Often the viewer sees black chromium or oxidized silver surfaces shining in iridescent black. While the artist initially worked in strictly geometric forms, from the mid-1980s organic elements are found in his jewellery, for example in the form of casts of branches or foliage. The work of recent times is a symbiosis of his entire creative life. The artist underwent his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in Pforzheim, and now teaches at the College of Applied Arts and Science in Hildesheim. This exhibition presents the work of Dobler from the early 1980s to today.
08/04/2011 – 26/06/2011
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
Wild Domain: The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery
Representing the first major survey of Ōtepoti Dunedin-based jeweller Jane Dodd’s expanding family of works; this exhibition delves into her examination of humankind’s impact on the natural world. Featuring over 100 pieces from museum and private collections, this is a whirlwind tour of Dodd’s critical, humorous and touching journey to help us recognise our intrinsic relationship to nature and the planet we all share. Each work takes on a life of its own, that when combined with a wearer’s memories and associations, builds a story and a system of interconnected links. Together, these many components form, what has become, The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery.
20/02/2021 - 27/06/2021
The Dowse Art Museum, 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, PO Box 30396, 5040, New Zealand
Tributaries: Ben Dory, Kissing Numbers
Ben Dory is an artist and metalsmith originally from Kansas City, KS. Dory received his BFA in Metalsmithing/Jewelry from the University of Kansas and his MFA in Metalsmithing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2014. While maintaining his studio practice, Ben explored various disciplines in the arts, including technician work, product design, nonprofit programming, research, and workshop instruction. His latest body of work pays homage to traditional granulation, an ancient and intricate technique of fusing primarily gold spheres. Always with an air of mystery, granulated objects convey the ongoing power of repeated minutiae: the captivating (and useful) qualities of pattern and patterning.
13/12/2020 – 7/04/2021
Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive, Memphis, TN 38106, USA
New Expressions: An exhibition of contemporary resin jewellery by jewellery-maker Daisy Dunlop
The New Expressions programme, funded by MLA South West, was designed to foster fresh interactions between artists, museums and visitors. This exhibition will include a range of original necklaces, bracelets and earrings inspired by the creations and philosphy of Leach. Daisy, who grew up in Cornwall and is now based at Krowji in Redruth, has recently completed a commission for the Royal Academy interpreting their Hammershoi Exhibition.
21/02/2009 – 25/04/2009
Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Gabi Dziuba & Friends
Matches or tablet cartons, coins, beans or letters of the alphabet, cast in gold or silver and slightly modified – Gabi Dziuba uses anything as a source of inspiration for her jewellery. The results of her experiments with shapes and materials are rigorously inventive, refreshingly unconventional, austerely minimalistic, glamorously sparkling, and progressively modern. Friendships, such as with Günther Förg for example, have a fundamental influence on her artistic work. Hence, the exhibition will be showing not only Gabi Dziuba’s jewellery from all her creative periods, but also pieces developed in collaboration with artist friends of hers, as well as a representative selection of their works. It will be giving an impression of the entire spectrum of her oeuvre for the first time. Created over the course of her 40-year career, it testifies to her liberal approach to the interdisciplinary influences from the art, music and fashion worlds. On view in the year of Ornamenta 2024, the exhibition will be harkening back to Ornamenta I in 1989 because the then zeitgeist and the blurred boundaries between jewellery, design and art had a formative effect on Gabi Dziuba.
25/02/2024 - 26/05/2024
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany
Once upon a time, there was a ring... Jewels by Gabi Dziuba presented by Christian Philipp Müller
Gabi Dziuba, a German artist who lives and works in Munich, here presents a selection of original works in gold, silver and precious stones, half of which created in collaboration with some of the most important artists on the contemporary German art scene including Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, Hans-Jörg Mayer and Günther Förg. While it is not possible to pin down an artist like Dziuba to a specific current or movement, it may be stated that she has often created jewels that pre-empt styles and fashions that have gone on to form part of both the street style and the haute couture of jewellery making. The jewels on show in their own glass cases interact with the installation created by the artist Christian Philipp Müller, who also created the graphics of the exhibition catalogue.
1/02/2009 – 26/04/2009
Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
Objects of Affection: Jewelry by Robert Ebendorf from the Porter • Price Collection
Ebendorf’s work combines exceptional craftsmanship, acquired through traditional training in gold- and silversmithing, with the inventive use of found objects and other alternative materials such as acrylic and ColorCore.
This exhibition follows the evolution of Ebendorf’s designs from Scandinavian modernism of his early work to his first use of found objects, including tintype photographs in the 1960s; juxtapositions of coloured acrylic and precious metals in the 1970s; use of found newspaper and other textual elements in the 1980s; his pivotal incorporation of animal parts in the 1990s; and the remixing and further development of many of these approaches in the 21st century.
Ebendorf had a long career as a professor, culminating at East Carolina University (1997–2016), and the exhibition includes work by 31 graduates and faculty of ECU’s metal design program.
While at ECU, Ebendorf became friends with Ron Porter and Joe Price, who built a wide-ranging collection of work by him and other ECU-affiliated artists and an equally extensive archive of their drawings, correspondence, and ephemera. Now part of the Mint Museum’s collection, the Porter • Price Collection affords a thorough look at the contributions of Ebendorf and the ECU program to the field of studio jewellery.
'Objects of Affection' is accompanied by a 112-page, full-colour catalogue published by Dan Giles, Ltd.
27/04/2024 – 16/02/2025
Mint Museum Randolph, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC 28207, USA
Meditations on Form: Jewellery by Melanie Eddy
Born and raised in Bermuda, Melanie Eddy has lived and worked in London for the past two decades. Despite the distance, a deep affinity for her island home runs through the bold geometric faceted forms that have become her signature, and for which she is gaining wide recognition.
The past few years have seen her work included in two exhibitions at Sotheby’s (New York and London) and a commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), where one of her ring sets is now on permanent display. “Much of my work is rooted in a sense of place,” she says. “My work now is even more aware of my connections to Bermuda because of the time spent away. Often, I think my pieces are meditations on memories of Bermuda.”
Eddy cites the simplicity of the island’s vernacular architecture as an influence, alongside the angular shadows cast by the stark sunlight, and the taut triangular sails of the Bermuda rig. “Triangles are important to me symbolically,” she says of the shape which forms the backbone of every design, referencing the Bermuda triangle and, more importantly, the triangle of trade which put Bermuda at the heart of the British Atlantic.
Places and spaces are key inspirations for the designer, who lists Tadao Ando, Le Corbusier and Zaha Hadid as influences. “Much of my work is informed by our relationship to architecture, both how we inhabit architectural spaces and how they transform our environments,” says Eddy, who describes jewellery as “intimate architecture – the design of structures for the body.” She adds: “Much like architecture, most of its meaning is in the interaction.”
4/10/2024 – 31/05/2025
Bermuda National Gallery (CCBB), 2nd Floor, City Hall & Arts Centre, 17 Church Street, Hamilton, HM 11, Bermuda
Charles Edenshaw
Charles Edenshaw (1839-1920) was recognized in his time as an exceptional Haida artist and remains an iconic figure in Northwest Coast art. His work serves as a testament to a tremendous individual spirit and a singular talent. With over 200 pieces assembled from public and private collections from around the world, this first major survey of Edenshaw's work features the full range of objects that he produced, including the carved silver bracelets that epitomise this art. His development of overlapping and interwoven forms was unprecedented and brought new vitality to the subject. The exhibition concludes with a consideration of the artist's tremendous Legacy among artists past and present. Featuring copies of Edenshaw's designs as well as works by his contemporaries for comparison, this section reveals how successive generations of scholars have developed and contributed to our knowledge of Edenshaw's work. The exhibition is complemented by a fully-illustrated book co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing (London).
26/10/2013 – 2/02/2014
Vancouver Art Gallery,750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7, Canada
Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Fail
Since the mid-1970s, artists worldwide have reacted against the age-old exclusivity and preciousness of jewellery, advocating for conceptual statements creatively fabricated primarily from a wide assortment of nonprecious materials. With a thirty-year and counting studio practice centred first in Europe and now in America, German artist Iris Eichenberg is one of the most influential contributors to this discourse. Because of her tireless interrogation into materiality, Eichenberg exemplifies what noted critic and curator Glenn Adamson calls the “post-disciplinary” artist. Instead of focusing on one medium and process, Eichenberg continually seeks to find the craft processes and combination of materials that best suit the idea at hand. An educator and prolific artist who lectures and conducts workshops worldwide, she imparts this methodology — a direct outcome of the open, creatively tolerant environment she enjoyed while working in Amsterdam — to the numerous international jewellery artists who come to study with her.
25/06/2022 - 30/10/2022
Museum of Craft and Design, 2569 Third Street, San Francisco CA 94107, USA
Beate Eismann. Druck + Schmuck.
Beate Eismann. Printing + jewellery.
The Halle jewelery designer Beate Eismann gives historical printing forms a new guise. Using impressions and spatial transformations of industrial patterns (artwork) she produces uniques jewellery. In dealing with the printing process objects is Beate Eismann different ways, which are described in detail in the exhibition. All processes together ensure that the material witnesses to the art of printing transfers to a new level of meaning: learn series originally crafted artwork by their transformation to the new status of a unique specimen. Beate Eismann, born 1969, studied in the field of jewellery at the Halle University of Art and Design Halle / Saale. The printing industry has since her childhood exerted a special fascination for her. Over the years she put on a collection of patterns, the material evidence of previous printing technology. These serve as inspiration for her own jewellery works of art. Prior to the exhibition, she has worked with clichés from the museum's collection and created new pieces of jewellery.
7/06/2012 - 31/08/2012
Stiftung Werkstattmuseum für Druckkunst Leipzig, Nonnenstraße 38, 04229 Leipzig, Germany
Eveli: Energy and Significance
In 1968 a talented 28-year-old artist named Eveli Sabatie moved from Paris to San Francisco. Like many young people of the day, she had become deeply interested in Native American cultures, and had travelled to the United States hoping to connect and to learn. A chance encounter with Hopi traditionalist Thomas Banyacya resulted in an invitation to attend the Powamuya (Bean Dance) ceremony at Third Mesa. There, in a local laundromat, she met the legendary master jeweller Charles Loloma. From June 12, 2016 through January 15, 2017 the Wheelwright Museum’s Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry will present a retrospective on the work of Eveli Sabatie, one of only two jewellers (the other is Verma Nequatewa) whom Loloma recognized as protégés.
10/06/2017 - 14/01/2018
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA
Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and Design
A native New Orleans artist, Mignon Faget has a national reputation in jewelry design. She began her career in 1967 by designing ladies’ apparel. In 1970 Faget’s creative impulses shifted from textiles to jewelry making, a career in which she has enjoyed immeasurable success for four decades. Through the years Faget has introduced over thirty major jewelry collections, each based on a particular theme. Architecture and nature are consistent sources of inspiration, persistently providing Faget with the initial creative spark that lies behind her translation of imagery into art. Faget has executed numerous special commissions for social, educational, and philanthropic organizations. This exhibition celebrates Faget’s career with more than 500 objects on display, including jewelry, clothing, drawings, photographs, linocuts, and glassware.
22/09/2010 - 2/01/2011
The Historic New Orleans Collection, LA, USA
The Collectible Life of Mignon Faget
This exhibit features personal collections of Mignon Faget jewellery as she marks her 50th anniversary as an artist. Collectibility is as integral to the designs of artist Mignon Faget (b. 1933-) as are the seashell, plant and architectural forms that epitomise her work. Her close observation of the natural world, particularly the Gulf Coast of the United States, as well as the built environment of her native New Orleans, Louisiana forged her iconic style. More than 200,000 collectors support her 50-year career. Faget is a fifth-generation New Orleanian from a Creole family. Her understanding of her native New Orleans as a layered and mysterious place that stands apart from the mainstream informs her careful selection of objects to transform through her artistry. Her associations with professors at Newcomb College, St. Mary’s Dominican College, and Tulane University influenced her pursuit of an artistic career as well as her philosophies of design. Series such as Sea, Knots (1976), Zea (1988), Romanesque Return (1990), and Sea Revisited (2019) demonstrate Faget’s rigorous and disciplined exploration of silver and gold.
1/08/2020 - 3/01/2021
West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson Avenue, Port Allen, LA 70767, USA
Claire Falkenstein - Intimate Relations
Falkenstein was initially a sculptor in Paris and was at the core of the circle of international artists there as her studio was a conduit for artists ranging from Henry Moore to Sam Francis. She was soon recognized as one of the most daring sculptors of that epoch by the renowned French critic, Michel Tapié who recognized her inventive use of materials; particularly evident in her fusions of glass and metal. That adventurous use of materials also characterized her printmaking, when she impressed her sculptures into paper. This exhibition presents rarely seen drawings, small sculpture and her highly prized jewelry. Transcending the traditional definition of the genre, Falkenstein’s jewelry was the subject of her 1961 solo exhibition at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs.
5/11/2011 – 24/12/2011
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA 90036-2517, USA
Jewels Inspired by Nature. Ilgiz F.
This exhibition displays masterpieces by Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, contemporary Russian jeweller.The artistic vividness of artworks by Ilgiz Fazulzyanov created with the help of “hot enamel” technique is close to the expression of paintings. International experts compare the complexity of technique and artistic quality of the designer’s pieces with the best creations by French Art Nouveau artists, such as René Jules Lalique and Georges Fouquet. Ilgiz Fazulzyanov is one of a few jewellers in the world using various classical techniques of “hot enamel”. Perfect technical virtuosity allows Ilgiz Fazulzyanov to create jewellery pieces of exceptional beauty and colour palette. On display are artworks of the period from 1996 to 2016 comprising both the artist’s early and modern pieces. A series of the latter ones are renowned masterpieces. Along with the jewels the display includes drawings and sketches aimed to enrich the impression of the artist’s work and to have a glance at his workshop. The visitors will have a chance to get acquainted with the new unique brand for enamel dials created for The Swiss Watchmaker BOVET 1822. The exhibition in the Assumption Belfry will present a ladies timepiece inspired by nature as well as a men’s timepiece from “The Horsemen of the Apocalypse” collection.
1/04/2016 – 31/07/2016
The Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow, Russia
Arline Fisch: Creatures from the deep
Considered to be one of the most respected jewelry makers in the field, Arline Fisch has created a new exhibition, which began as an eighty-foot window display for the Windows on Fifth Gallery at the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin. Fisch combines jellyfish, crochet and wire with blown air and lighting effects in order to transform the Metal Museum’s exhibition space into an underwater environment.
14/01/2011 - 3/04/2011
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis TN, USA
The Life and Work of Alice Fischer, Cultural Pioneer
Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, Alice Fischer (1907–2004) was an artist and designer who immigrated to the United States by way of Paris to escape the Nazi regime. This exhibition serves as an introduction to Fischer’s jewelry and other works of art (etchings, watercolors and drawings), which scholars have mostly overlooked, but will also delve into issues of identity and the influence of early Christian and medieval art on her jewelry designs. Expulsion (from Germany and Austria, and finally from France) and the trials of immigration marked her life. When her ship was stopped at Casablanca during her flight from the Nazi regime, Fischer was interned at camp Oued Zem for nearly three months. Uncertain of her fate, it was here that Fischer expressed her willingness to be a “cultural pioneer” in northern Africa if she was unable to leave. After arriving in the United States, she continued to journey—from Manhattan to Woodstock, from Virginia to Athens, Ga., where Lamar Dodd hired her to teach art history at the University of Georgia, and finally to North Carolina, where she worked in collage, printmaking and drawing until her death.
10/01/2015 – 8/03/2015
Georgia Museum of Art, 90 Carlton Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture
Crafted from brass, gold, and semi-precious stones, Douriean Fletcher’s boldly sculptural designs articulate Black identity, embody spiritual meaning, and have helped define cinematic characters and imagined worlds. The exhibition documents and explores how ideas of Afrofuturism materialise in Fletcher’s work, highlighting her research into African and African American jewellery design and efforts to build aesthetic and cultural bridges between Black communities, countries, continents, and histories torn apart by colonialism, slavery, and oppression. Presenting over 150 works from the artist’s collection, 'Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture' tells the inspiring story of Fletcher’s evolution from self-taught metalsmith to an influential designer whose handmade adornments have shaped memorable aesthetics in contemporary cinema, most notably Marvel Studios’ Black Panther film franchise.
4/10/2025 - 15/03/2026
Museum of Arts and Design, Jerome and Simona Chazen Building, 2 Columbus Circle, NYC, 10019, USA
18/04/2026 – 9/08/2026
The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
Nora Fok, A Retrospective
The first ever solo exhibition by the extraordinary jeweller, textile artist and 3D designer Nora Fok will be on show at the Harley Gallery at the ducal estate of Welbeck, which has been the family home of the Cavendish Family since the early 1600s. The artist has established herself as a pioneering maker, crafting her delicate, intricate forms from nylon microfilament. Nora makes her work by hand using techniques she has taught herself: knitting, knotting, tying, weaving, plaiting. The list is deceptively simple, her chosen material of nylon monofilament is fine and hard to work but her results are spectacular. These pieces are often very complicated and take many hours, days or weeks to produce.
22/01/2011 – 20/03/2011
Harley Gallery, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK
2/04/2011 – 5/06/2011
Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, UK
12/05/2012 – 7/07/2012
Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston WV14 7LU, UK
18/06/2011 – 16/11/2011
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE8 4JB, UK
17/12/2011 – 11/03/2012
Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, Lancs OL16 1AQ, UK
17/03/2012 – 4/05/2012
Museum in the Park, STROUD, Gloucestershire GL5 4AF, UK
12/05/2012 – 7/07/2012
Bilston Craft Centre, Mount Pleasant, Bilston, WV14 7LU, UK
1/09/2012 – 28/10/2012
Walford Mill Crafts, Stone Lane, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1NL UK
Fausto Maria Franchi: Artefatti Preziosi
This exhibition has, preceded by a brief retrospect, the works of Franchi from 2000 to the present day. Silver and jewellery are one in Italian goldsmith's art. On display are some 80 artifacts, including silver and gold.
27/11/2009 – 31/01/2010
Museo degli Argenti, Florence, Italy
Warwick Freeman: Hook Hand Heart Star
Warwick Freeman’s emblematic jewellery pursues meaning. Across five decades the New Zealand jeweller has built a lexicon of signs: from the cultural symbolism of the hook and the star to the heart redrawn in the volcanic scoria of Rangitoto island. When worn, his jewellery communicates something of who we are and how we have lived. Throughout his career Freeman has never tired of exploring what it means to make jewellery in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Freeman’s work reflects a depth of thinking about the construction of identity that weaves together the big with the small. He has explored forms found in the detritus of daily life, the influence of New Zealand’s colonisation, and the rich geology of the land, all of which have provided him with an abundant supply of materials and narratives to draw from.
'Hook Hand Heart Star' includes key installation works, emblematic groupings and a number of suites of emblems, described by Freeman as Sentences. Composed of arrangements of individual works, these groupings evidence Freeman’s practice as always in motion, building on itself iteratively over many years.
The four nouns that form the title of this exhibition are inspired by Freeman’s first stand-alone grouping of emblems from 1987, the four-piece ‘poem’, Fern Fish Feather Rose'. This significant work catalysed Freeman’s thinking about the power of assembling recognisable forms that could communicate their stories in lieu of words.
15/03/2025 - 10/08/2025
Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich, Germany
Karl Fritsch: Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster
An installation by German jeweller Karl Fritsch, where we encounter the exquisite rings in the midst of a ‘scene’ created by the artist. Karl likes to treat his jewellery like plasticine. His pieces remain unfinished until they are worn. He endeavours to expand the idea of what jewellery might be, throwing off kilter conventional ideas about value, wearablity, and what is beautiful. This exhibition shows an extraordinary artist at work on both micro and macroscopic levels: in the minute rings, and with the room at large. These are gems that refuse to be just beautiful; they jostle with real life and what it means to be precious, to be worn and to be loved. They create a scene, and revel in it.
26/11/2010 - 16/01/2011
City Gallery Wellington - Hirschfeld Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Karl Fritsch: Freeling
I will be showing my first ‘made in New Zealand’ pieces. I’ve just built my own workshop in Wellington and am still keen to build more things. I like it. I like the DIY mentality – everybody has a project around the house and it doesn’t matter how skilled you are; you just do it. You might fail but then you can just fix it again. There’s usually a good amount of making things fit that do not really fit. Materials get reinterpreted for a new use and the project becomes a creation and a statement in itself: the serendipity of DIY.
8/06/2010 - 3/07/2010
Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
Karl Fritsch: Metrosideros Robusta
A collaboration between the Neues Museum, Nuremberg, the International Design Museum, Munich and the artist.
28/11/08 – 27/02/09
Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg, Germany
The Enchanting Jewels of Elizabeth Gage
This exhibition will showcase approximately 250 pieces of fine jewellery, spanning the 50 years of Elizabeth Gage’s superb craftsmanship and bold design. Truly an artist who uses jewels and metal instead of paint, she is widely considered as one of today’s most influential jewellery artists and designers. Elizabeth takes her inspiration from a wide range of influences including architecture, animals, art, and nature including a strong inspiration from the English garden. Her starting point is always the stone or artifact, whether a precious jewel, an exquisite fossil, or a historical treasure. Elizabeth allows the item itself to guide her creativity, using her imagination and skill to bring out its full potential in color and design. Each item in the exhibition has been hand-picked by Elizabeth Gage and includes works from The Elizabeth Gage Archive Collection as well the private collections of clients from around the world, making this a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see the full range of Elizabeth Gage’s unique creativity and craftsmanship.
24/04/2015 - 26/07/2015
New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT 06052, USA
Thomas Gentille. Jewelry Art
Thomas Gentille – born in 1936 in Mansfield, Ohio and now working in New York – is one of the leading jewellery artists, not only of the USA but the world. To mark his 80th birthday, Die Neue Sammlung is devoting a large exhibition to him, encompassing for the first time his entire oeuvre and introducing its different aspects. It is also the first time that the museum has devoted a monographic exhibition to the work of an American jewellery artist.
27/02/2016 - 20/05/2016
Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer Straße 40 | 80333 München, Germany
1839 Exchanges - Jewellery by Jason Hall
Since 1998 artist Jason Hall has been questioning what it means to be Pakeha. This exhibition, curated by Damian Skinner, is about jewellery, identity and cultural exchange. It features a series of amulets created by Hall ‘for’ Frederick Edward Maning, an Irishman who arrived in Aotearoa in 1833. Hall’s works draw a parallel between the meaning of the amulet and the tension that sits at the heart of settler societies.
19/12/2009 - 21/02/2010
Rotorua Museum, New Zealand
Douglas Harling: Residence of the Heart
Douglas Harling is head of the Goldsmithing and Jewelry Arts Program at Flathead Valley Community College. He is known for his contemporary gold granulation techniques. His awards include a Southern Arts Federation/NEA Grant, a North Carolina Artist Fellowship Grant, and an American Craft Council Award of Excellence. He has taught numerous workshops across the country and exhibits internationally. Douglas received his MFA in Metals from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1992.
6/12/2015 - 6/03/2016
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Metal Museum Drive Memphis, Tennessee 38106, USA
Rudolf Heltzel in Precious Metal
Master goldsmith and an icon of Irish craft and design, Rudolf Heltzel presents a solo exhibition of his exceptional sculptural pendants. Heltzel has gained an international reputation for the originality, quality and timeless aesthetic of his craftsmanship with each piece created meticulously by hand using some of the world’s oldest jewellery techniques. This exhibition, In Precious Metal, will showcase many of Heltzel’s most ambitious and technically complex designs, selected from his personal archive together with newly produced work. Three of his most significant collections of scultptural pendants will be presented; Rock Crystal Treasure Cave, Tourmaline Butterflies and his brand new Druze Collection. Originally from Berlin, Germany, Rudolf Heltzel was invited to Ireland in 1966 by An Córas Tráchtála, the Irish Export Board. He set up and led the trail-blazing gold and silver studio-workshops at the Kilkenny Design Workshops. In 1968, he established his own workshop in Kilkenny where he, his son Christopher, their employees and apprentices still work today. Heltzel has won countless accolades throughout his 50 years in the business, including ‘One of the World’s Greatest Gem Houses’ by the Franklin Mint. He has exhibited widely and sold through establishments such as Nieman Marcus. He is a consultant to the jewellery industry, having worked and mentored across the globe, and has directly trained many goldsmiths working in the field today. He has also been instrumental in establishing training opportunities for jewellery makers, keeping ancient traditional skills alive.
2/02/2018 - 18/04/2018
National Design & Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, Kilkenny, Ireland
Therese Hilbert. RED
She uses silver rather than gold. She develops her formal vocabulary from the classical canon of basic shapes rather than drawing on the amorphous games of nature. She surrounds discs with frames as though to protect them, as though some of their invisible content might fall out when they are worn as a brooch. Vessels with perforated shells offer a view into their cores. Her work does not exude excitement or loudness, its archaic proportions convey calm and strength. Not to be confused with coldness and distance. At times, she does away with the characteristic interplay between the silver and the ambient light by brushing it to create a matt surface, adding delicately drawn hatching, oxidizing or whiten it varnishing it with a dynamic brush stroke. Quietly and as a matter of course she strives for absolute perfection in all of her work.
Die Neue Sammlung is delighted to present the first solo exhibition on Therese Hilbert’s art in close collaboration with the artist herself. Hilbert has selected around 250 pieces for the exhibition, beginning with almost unknown early works through to her newest works created in 2021.
Join us in celebrating the life work of an extraordinary artist.
12/03/2023 - 30/07/2023
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Türkenstraße 15, 80333 Munich, Germany
Marian Hosking: Jewellery
With a career spanning almost 40 years, Hosking is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary jewellers and silversmiths. Hosking has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous collections. Working almost exclusively with silver, her work is concerned with rich surface patterns and textures. This reflects her particular concerns for the natural environment, allowing her to echo the forms and motifs found in nature. Her Living Treasures exhibition includes a large scale sculptural work along with a collection of new vessels and jewellery pieces. As a practitioner and educator, Hosking’s influence has been far-reaching. She established the first jewellery course at Charles Sturt University in 1973, and went on to establish her own studio in Melbourne in 1976 before co-founding Workshop 3000 in 1981. She has lectured at RMIT and is currently the Head of Metal and Jewellery at Monash University, where she is also undertaking a PhD.
20/03/2010 - 9/05/2010
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW, Australia
Knitted, Knotted, Twisted & Twined: The Jewelry of Mary Lee Hu
Over the past 40 years, Mary Lee Hu has affirmed her distinctive voice in the world of jewelry with her elegant, voluptuous creations. Using wire the way hand weavers use thread, Hu has blazed a trail as both artist and innovator, exploring the nexus between metalsmithing and textile techniques. Keen to metal's ability to bend and manipulate light within a textured surface, Hu's work is a testament to her sophisticated eye for weightless and rhythmic lines, translated into body adornment. Featuring more than 90 exquisite earrings, rings, brooches and neckpieces drawn from public and private collections internationally, this retrospective traces Hu's evolution from her experimental designs of the 1960s to today's creations full of light and movement.
7/02/2012 – 17/06/2012
Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
Master Metalsmith: Michael Jerry
Michael Jerry is known for his exquisitely crafted hollowware and jewelry, which combines pewter, silver, and gold with other natural materials. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Art and Design, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York; in the De Young Museum in San Francisco; and in many other public and private collections of mid-century and contemporary metal work. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the School for American Craftsmen, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is Professor Emeritus of the Syracuse University College of Art and Design. Jerry currently resides in Santa Fe. This exhibition showcases his work in honor of his appointment as Master Metalsmith 2010.
3/09/2010 - 31/10/2010
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Precious Grotesqueries: The Jewels of William Harper
Practising since the mid-1960s, Wiliam Harper (b. 1944) has an extensive œuvre that defies simple definition. His objects combine the precious with the utilitarian, the natural with the industrial world, the medieval era with modern times. They display a deep personal immersion in art history, yet they are by no means dryly academic or remotely historicizing. They are vivid fantasies, adventures into hidden realms, autobiographical reveries, homages to artistic heroes. Like the grotesques in the margins of medieval manuscripts they are often strange and mysterious, yet comic and pleasing
23/10/2025 - 12/12/2025
Les Enluminures, New York, 23 E 73rd St, 7th Floor, New York NY 10021, USA
William Harper: The Beautiful & the Grotesque
There are painters who are craftsmen; there are jewelers who are artists. I maintain that the finest art, in any medium, results from those who are both artists and craftsmen. — William Harper. In the world of artist William Harper’s vibrant and improvisational jewellery, craftsmanship and concept are always entwined. Now visitors to the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery may experience his singular visual voice. The more than 60 works of art on view will include Harper’s exquisitely crafted fine jewellery; display boxes built from assemblages of found objects; paintings; and Japanese-style folding books. Driven by an intense love for the material process, Harper enters his studio with improvisational spirit, allowing each move to inspire the next. His lush objects combine unexpected materials, including plastic beads, nails, and bone as well as pearls, jewels, precious metals, and enamel. The exhibit's title, The Beautiful & the Grotesque, underscores the tension between high and low, between precious and disposable, and between what draws and repels a viewer.
4/04/2018 - 14/06/2019
Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery, 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44106, USA
Goldsmiths' Hall Public Exhibitions - Summer 2023
The Goldsmiths' Company opens the doors of the Goldsmiths' Hall for a brief public view of four spectacular exhibitions: 'Dorothy Hogg', 'The Art of Fame: Art Medals in the Goldsmiths' Company Collection 1973-2023', 'Celebrating Platinum' and 'New to the Collection'
30/05/2023 - 3/06/2023
Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane London EC2V 6BN, UK
Margit Jäschke – Kairos
The artist Margit Jäschke describes herself as a wanderer between art worlds. Transcending the boundaries of the common genres, such as installation, painting, sculpture and art jewellery, she has created an oeuvre that is in a league of its own. Purposefully blurring the distinction between wearable pieces of jewellery and autonomous works of art, she emphasizes details that evoke different associations in different viewers. The exhibition will be showcasing the multifaceted, multiple prize-winning oeuvre created by Margit Jäschke over the course of the past 30 years, and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Arnoldsche Art publishers.
10/12/2022 - 16/04/2023
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany
Daniel Jocz: Permission Granted
The career of Massachusetts artist Daniel Jocz has been marked by shape-shifting and playful irreverence, resulting in an energetically diverse body of work. In his jewellery over the past four decades, he has mastered the art of innovation and assumed a remarkably broad range of formal and conceptual positions. Incorporating aspects of sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, his small-scale objects also reveal Jocz’s technical virtuosity and passion for ideas. The exhibition, 'Daniel Jocz: Permission Granted', will survey the artist’s dynamic career through some 50 pieces of jewellery along with a selection of related sculptural pieces.
17/09/2022 – 14/05/2023
Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301, USA
Lauren Kalman: But if the Crime Is Beautiful.…
Taking up the subject of gold (specifically jewellery and adornment) as representative of power, wealth, and love, this exhibition, created by performance artist and metalsmith Lauren Kalman, is MAD's second POV exhibition in the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery. In reference to Austrian architect Adolf Loos' 1908 treatise "Ornament and Crime," in which he declared decoration regressive and fit only for degenerates and criminals (this included women and minorities), Kalman commits a "crime" by covering the inside and outside of MAD's jewelry cases with 2,000 golden brass leaves. Loos' theories laid the groundwork for modernism, known for its spareness, rectilinearity, and rationality. In this installation, the upright white cases in the jewellery gallery stand in for Loos' modernism.
20/10/2016 - 15/03/2017
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, USA
Nearly Nothing - Jewellery and Vessels Created by Ulla and Martin Kaufmann
Ulla and Martin Kaufmann have been creating jewellery and vessels for almost fifty years now. Initially, they were characterized by abstract floral shapes, later on by a classically modern formal idiom, and in the past few decades have reflected their in-depth involvement with the sculptures created by Richard Serra or Eduardo Chillida, for example. Both trained as gold- and silversmiths, and have been sharing an atelier in Hildesheim since 1970. A hammered metal strip plays a central role in their works, which include a number of audaciously shaped creations, as do the exterior, interior and intermediate spaces they create with their materials. In addition to many other accolades, Ulla and Martin Kaufmann won the Bavarian State Prize in 2018 for their project entitled »Cubes in Motion«. The exhibition will be giving a representative overview of the couple’s comprehensive oeuvre.
13/07/2019 - 3/11/2019
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany
Different from - Ulla und Martin Kaufmann
For the artists, using the techniques before the gold and silver make the basic theme of their vessels, flatware and jewellery. With their practical and aesthetic qualities Ulla and Martin Kaufmann create works in a distinctive kind of classical modernism up to the present day.
15/08/10 - 28/10/2010
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, UK
Een tijd van zien, 40 Jaar Beppe Kessler
A time for seeing, 40 year retrospective of Beppe Kessler
Look, see, discover. That is the basis of everything that the artist Beppe Kessler makes - an open eye for adventure. At Beppe Kessler there is always an extremely fruitful interaction between making the big and the small work: often one influences the other. Kessler regularly uses painting techniques in her jewellery and vice versa. All of Beppe Kessler's work is essentially sculptural. She makes no distinction between autonomous and functional objects: she is a draftsman who embroiders, a weaver who paints, a woodworker who makes jewellery; someone for whom choosing is not a choice. Beppe Kessler's work is modest, searching, suggestive. They are not aspects that dominate in today's hyper-communicative society. Kessler makes pieces that demand attention and peace; not only during the making, but also from the person looking at the result. The title of this exhibition comes from a poem by K. Schippers and not only refers to the artist's long-term career, but also serves as a call to the visitor to look, see, discover.
3/11/2019 - 1/03/2020
CODA museum, Vosselmanstraat 299, 7311 CL Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Beppe Kessler: Paintings & jewellery
The particular training of the Dutch artist Beppe Kessler in the sector of visual arts, as well as in weaving and, later, in experimental jewellery, reveals a language which is identified totally with these different disciplines. Proof of this is to be seen in her works of the ten-year period 1990-2000, when her canvases, already supports to paintings, became the same main material she used to create jewellery. In her works of the last ten years, Kessler has been experimenting with precious materials, using gold and gem stones - mainly transparent ones such as alabaster, rock crystal and agate, but also acrylic fibre. This new phase of her work is dominated by a different application of weaving techniques. Now she uses gold thread to penetrate translucent materials, creating arabesques inside them, or defining lines linking very different and contrasting elements in elaborate, complex necklaces.
28/10/2010 - 22/12/2010
Studio GR·20, Padua, Italy
Knox: Order & Beauty
The world’s largest exhibition of works by Archibald Knox is set to be unveiled in a new exhibition showcased in the National Art Gallery at the Manx Museum, featuring over 200 pieces from collections across the British Isles, including rare pieces of silver, pewter and jewellery from iconic collections including the V&A, The Peartree Collection, Titus Omega, Manx National Heritage and major private collectors.
Famed for his work for 'The Silver Studio' and Liberty & Co, Archibald Knox was a leading exponent of the ‘British Celtic Revival’ design style. His metalwork designs with their distinctive interlace patterns, are seen as iconic examples of early 20th century design. He also embraced Arts and Crafts, British Art Nouveau and Modernism.
Born on the Isle of Man, Knox was known locally as the man who could ‘paint the wind’. Sketching and painting for his own pleasure, he painted evocative landscapes, rural scenes, buildings and other subjects. The exhibition will be the largest exhibit of Knox material the world has ever seen, with over 100 pieces on loan from private collections and museums and a further 100 pieces drawn from Manx National Heritage’s extensive collection, which is believed to be the largest and most diverse Knox collection in the world. The exhibition will be the first time many of the pieces will have been seen in public to tell the story of Knox’s life and work.
5/04/2025 - 1/03/2026
The Manx Museum and National Art Gallery, Kingswood Grove, Douglas, IM1 3LY, Isle of Man
Arthur Koby Jewelry: The Creative Eye
Koby is known for necklaces that draw inspiration from architecture and sculpture, bringing together unique and surprising materials as three-dimensional collage. Each of his creations is a one-of-a-kind object equally suited to accent eveningwear or a simple T-shirt. “Arthur Koby has been recognized for his creative combination of elements in necklaces sought by fashionable women,” says Kent State University Museum Director Jean Druesedow. “Designers such as Geoffrey Beene, Oscar de la Renta and Donna Karan asked him to design necklaces for their runway collections throughout the 1980s. This exhibition will provide students with the opportunity to see these imaginative accessories. These are statement pieces, and each has a different dramatic quality.” The exhibit will include works on loan from clients who have amassed collections of Arthur Koby’s jewelry, as well as from the designer himself.
25/10/2013 – 5/10/2015
Kent State University Museum, 515 Hilltop Drive, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA
All that Matters… The Art of Ivaan Kotulsky in Retrospect
This exhibition shows jewellery, sculpture and objets d’art by the renowned Ukrainian Canadian metal artist Ivaan Kotulsky. Inspired by Lalique and Guimard, but especially by the artists of the Renaissance, Ivaan made objects of incredible beauty in gold, silver, bronze, copper, pewter, platinum and steel, as well as [in] his personal blend of steel and chrome. He used the ancient process of lost wax casting, doing his own polishing and finishing for quality control. Kotulsky had played an active role in the exhibit organizing committee but succumbed to illness and passed away in early December 2008.
23/01/2009 – 31/10/2009
Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Zwischen Natur und Künstlichkeit - Daniel Kruger: Schmuck und Keramik
Daniel Kruger: Between Nature and Artifice
This comprehensive exhibition is dedicated to the work of Daniel Kruger, a major protagonist of contemporary jewellery design. About 200 pieces of jewellery provide an overview of nearly forty years of creativity, which is fed by an inexhaustible curiosity about unconventional jewellery techniques and unusual materials. Hardly any other jewellery artist has so freely presented a very personal view of new visual worlds in the course of his work. Around 60 ceramic works are also on display.
11/12/2014 - 8/03/2015
GRASSI. Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 - Leipzig, Germany
27/03/2015 - 14/06/2015
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany
9/07/2015 - 27/09/2015
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e. V., Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany
17/10/2015 – 14/01/2016
The Stedelijk Museum, De Mortel 4, 5211 HV 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Jewellery by Winfried Kruger
Well-defined contours, audacious shapes and surfaces, as well as playful contrasts, are only a few of the features that characterise the pieces of jewellery created by Winfried Kruger. The wide variety of stimulating impressions in his surroundings is far too inspiring to limit himself to certain materials only, or to a single subject-matter. Kruger worked as an instructor at the Technical College of Pforzheim’s Goldsmithing School until 2010 and was awarded the Baden-Württemberg State Prize for Arts and Crafts in 1992.
19/07/2014 – 19/10/2014
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstrasse 42, D-75173, Pforzheim, Germany
Guntis Lauders: In Search of the Lost Court
Ten years ago – on May 20th, year 2000, the Putti gallery was opened with jewellery designer’s Guntis Lauders' solo show. This year, again in May, Guntis Lauders – wiser for 10 years and inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, invites you to his solo show “In Search for the Lost Court”.
28/05/2010 - 28/08/2010
Putti Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Blunt Blades
Leading jeweller Arabel Lebrusan explores our complex relationships with knives and their variety of roles in this display.
Informed by years of research after Arabel received three crates of confiscated knives and weapons from Bedfordshire Police in 2013, this display explores whether the meaning of an object can be re-established and transformed to evoke different emotions.
The display features seven new works in a variety of mediums, including photography, sculpture, jewellery, drawings and audio, delving into the commonly held perception of knives from specialised tools in everyday jobs to status symbols and deadly weapons, and transforming their meanings.
Drawing from a selection of over 40 historic examples of blades from The Higgins Bedford’s collections, the display is accompanied by Tales of Blunt Blades, a publication of short stories. Members of the public and amateur writers were invited to pen new histories and narratives for the culturally significant objects, giving a voice to individuals in the community with a story to tell, as well as encouraging them to consider the varied roles of knives. You can pick up a free copy of Tales of Blunt Blades at The Higgins Bedford.
11/11/2021 - 30/10/2022
The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD, UK
Suprematism Vision: Space Motifs in the Graphic Works and Jewellery Designs of Nadia Léger
The exhibition is dedicated to the art of Nadia Léger (1904-1982), a famous artist of the 20th century, a bright representative of the Parisian art school. The oeuvre of this talented painter and graphic artist, who was also engaged in monumental art and design, was the amalgam and reinterpretation of the major artistic trends of the 20th century, such as Cubism, Suprematism, Purism and Socialist Realism. In the 1960s and 1970s, Nadia Léger turned to an early period of her creative career dating back to the early 1920s that of the "flight forms". It was inspired by the dawn of the Space Age. of Yuri Gagarin’s feat stunned Nadia: this miracle, which became a reality, was perceived by her as the ultimate fulfilment of her teacher, the founder of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich’s vision and earlier dreams. In 1970, Nadia Léger created a series of suprematism jewellery pieces based on her paintings and graphic works in gold, platinum, and diamonds. She presented the Soviet Union with thirty-seven pieces of precious "cosmic" jewellery – brooches, rings and watches in 1976. They were transferred to the Moscow Kremlin Museums in 1980, where they are preserved to this day. A remarkable collection of avant-garde jewellery will be on public display for the first time, and it will focus on a less explored aspect of Nadia Léger's outstanding talent. Along with the jewellery pieces, it will showcase a graphic portrait of Nadia, made by her husband Fernand Léger; Suprematist Compositions from the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Pablo Picasso’s drawing from the collection of the Karisalov family, depicting Yuri Gagarin as a soaring dove.
6/04/2021 – 01/09/2021
Anteroom of the Armoury Chamber, The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site, 103132 Russia, Moscow, Kremlin
Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen: Jewellery Sculptures
The jewellery of Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen is like miniature sculptures on the body. Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen studied at the Art + Factory School, now the University of Pforzheim, to which in 1985 he was appointed as a lecturer and from which he retired in 2009. This exhibition features a retrospective of his work.
ends 17/01/2010
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany
26/02/2010 – 24/05/2010
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
Na návšteve / Autorský šperk
The jewellery of Jana and Peter Machata and Kristýna Španíhelová
The designer jewellery of Jana and Peter Machatovci was first presented in the Orava Gallery in 2013. After eight years, they return with their current work and have also included Kristýna Španíhelová, who is exhibiting in Dolný Kubín for the first time. All three authors have common study backgrounds at the Bratislava VŠVU. By creating designer jewelry, they successfully established themselves on the domestic art scene and gradually built a reputation in the international context - either by participating in symposia and exhibitions, including the most prestigious jewellery event Schmuck in Munich, or by representation in foreign collections and publications. Approximately 120 jewels - mainly brooches and pendants - will be presented in symbiosis with the existing representative paintings and sculptures from the collections of the Orava Gallery documenting the development of fine arts in Slovakia from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 21st century. The viewer will be convinced that, despite its miniature dimensions, contemporary designer jewellery is able to express itself on various topics and bring the same strong artistic statements as in other media. In the exhibited jewels of Kristýna Španihelová, Jana Machatová and Petr Machata, it is mainly personal and historical memory, ecology, identity, corporeality and materiality, which enrich the exhibition with new angles through mutual confrontation.
5/08/2021 - 5/12/2021
The Orava Gallery, Hviezdoslavovo námestie 11, 026 01 Dolný Kubín, Slovakia
Fritz Maierhofer, gioielli e sculture. Retrospettiva 1970-2015
Retrospective exhibition of the work of the Austrian artist Fritz Maierhofer.
11/09/2015 - 8/11/2015
Palazzo Zuckermann, Corso Garibaldi 33, Padua, Italy
Gioielli di Giulio Manfredi celebrano Raffaello. Scuola di Luce
Jewels by Giulio Manfredi celebrate Raphael. School of Light
This exhibition consists of 21 exquisite jewels, corresponding to 21 characters from Raphael’s cartoon, demonstrating that 'the cartoon still inspires those who let themselves be provoked by such lofty beauty'.
Giulio Manfredi recreates the dazzling secret of Raphael’s masterpiece in jewels and precious stones, as a gesture of admiration and love. His research, the awareness with which he experiments with matter and form, are the traces of a precious dream, where the legacy of Humanism is nothing more than the gaze turned towards new and contemporary beauty.
16/09/2022 – 16/02/2023
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Room of the Raphael Cartoon, Piazza Pio XI 2, Milan, Italy
Bruno Martinazzi. Ein Künstlerphilosoph im Schmuck
From the manifold collection of the German Goldsmith's House, jewellery of well-known artists - Bruno Martinazzi, Hermann Jünger, Ebbe Weiss-Weingart - as well as relating to exceptional materials and techniques will be presented in the context of the history of jewellery.
More than 100 objects, including previously unknown rarities from the archive of Bruno Martinazzi (1923–2018) in Turin, cast light on the central guiding concepts of this goldsmith and sculptor. They reflect an aesthetic that can be situated between modernity and classicism. Martinazzi’s works are world-famous and open to rediscovery time and time again.
18/11/2021 - 13/02/2022
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany
Mass number and weight - Bruno Martinazzi
In association with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, this exhibition shows selected sculptures and jewelry of the acclaimed 85 year old master jeweller Bruno Martinazzi. The exhibition presents some 70 works from the goldsmith's oeuvre and shows the background of the artist and his aesthetic concerns.
21/05/09 – 30/08/09
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Falko Marx. Jewellery from 1966 to 2009
Falko Marx (born 1940) has been for many years one of the most important jewellery artists from Cologne. He is renowned worldwide and is represented in major international, public and private collections with outstanding work. This exhibition will show a representative cross-section of work selected by the artist with around 60 works from all periods.
29/10/2009 - 10/01/2010
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Tiff Massey: Jewelry Box
Multimedia artist and metalsmith Tiff Massey makes art and jewellery inspired by 1980s hip-hop fashion and her experiences living in Detroit. Building from an examination of the African diaspora, Massey delves into contemporary issues of race, class, and popular culture in large-scale wearable jewellery and sculpture, music, performances, and installations. Drawing from her “Everyday Arsenal” series, the artist transforms the MMA’s Olthoff Gallery into a flashy display of massive hip-hop jewellery, gold, and mirrors in a dynamic exploration of self-identity and fashion. A Cranbrook graduate with a MFA in metalsmithing, Massey is a two time winner of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge and a 2015 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship recipient.
11/11/2021 – 20/02/2022
The Muskegon Museum of Art, 296 W. Webster Avenue Muskegon, Michigan 49440, USA
Atelier Janiyé and the Legacy of Master Jeweler Miyé Matsukata
Celebrating the work and legacy of Boston-based jewelry artist Miyé Matsukata (1922–1981), this exhibition presents together for the first time a retrospective selection of Matsukata's work, alongside the work of her colleagues Nancy Wills Michel, Alexandra Solowij Watkins, and Yoshiko Yamamoto.
22/01/2011 – 24/07/2011
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
World of Wonder: Margot McKinney
With a lifetime dedicated to luxury, Australian jewellery designer Margot McKinney is one of the world’s boldest talents. The very definition of timeless elegance and bespoke excellence, Margot’s extraordinary pieces are a celebration of the world’s rarest gems.
From the coral reef in our own backyard to the rich palette of colours found on safari in Tanzania, this exhibition will be a mesmerising celebration of the complex and profoundly beautiful environments and materials that have inspired her designs. Here you’ll find opulent opals, lustrous pearls and rare gems like the intensely blue tanzanite, lilac amethyst and pink tourmalines.
This is the fourth exhibition in MoB’s identity series that celebrates creative greats who call Brisbane home. Join us as we journey through a treasure trove of memories and mastery and let Margot’s designs and inspiration transport you to a world of wonder.
18/06/2022 – 6/11/2022
Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, Brisbane City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane 4000, Australia
Modern Alchemy, Adam McNeely
Adam Neeley is an award-winning artist-jeweller who transforms precious metals and gemstones into wearable art by traditional goldsmithing techniques and modern technologies. His unique designs are inspired by the vast variety of shapes and colours found in the natural world. In fact, it was his childhood interest in collecting rocks that eventually drew Neeley to the master goldsmiths in Italy, where he would study the art of jewellery making. Eventually he developed his own style and techniques of goldwork that have won him international acclaim, as well as prestigious awards across the jewellery industry.
Through many years of trial and error, he developed a never-before-seen technique that he calls 'Spectra Gold', which seamlessly changes one colour of gold into another. This is accomplished by a labour-intensive forging process to create a subtle gradient, or ombré, of colour from yellow gold to white gold and more. This, along with his creation of totally new colours of gold, adds to the sense that his jewellery is created by a modern-day alchemist.
This exhibition will explore both the creative working processes of this innovative jeweller, and some of the raw and faceted gems and minerals used by him to create his art. Collaborating with world-class lapidaries, such as Stephen Avery, Neeley creates truly imaginative pieces that go beyond contemporary designs into the realm of dreams and fantasy inspired by imagination and the world around him. Artist-jeweller Adam Neeley is a true 21st century alchemist.
17/02/2024 – 29/07/2024
Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA
Stilsicher
Stylish
This exhibition shows the harmonious and engaging interplay of fashion and jewellery. Various outfits and clothing styles are presented in the form of hand-drawn fashion sketches. The drawings come from the jewellery artist Anne Menzel, who has her workshop in the interactive exhibition, and were created especially for the special show 'Stylish'. In addition, the exhibition combines selected pieces of jewellery and accessories from the various workshops of the Gablonz industry. Lush or subtle, intensely colored or calm - the selection forms stylish combination suggestions for jewellery and fashion.
11/4/2022 - 3/03/2023
Erlebnisausstellung der Gablonzer Industrie, Neue Zeile 11, 87600 Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, Germany
The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf
This is the first exhibition and first major monograph with a retrospective view of the artist’s work. Featuring approximately sixty pieces dating from the 1970s to the present, the exhibition conceptualizes Metcalf’s work in relationship to his interest in architecture, the comics, and the narrative. It examines the social, moral, and political issues that Metcalf has raised in published essays about the handmade and that are acted out by his rueful bigheaded and vulnerable protagonists on miniature stages. In their dual life as wearable brooches, they venture into the world, where they engage the unsuspecting viewer with their stories and distinctive visual language.
10/11/2009 - 10/01/2010
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, USA
11/02/2010 - 11/04/2010
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio TX, USA
28/05/2010 - 22/08/2010
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, USA
September 2010 - January 2011
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
The Jewelry of John Paul Miller
At once an artist, teacher, and craftsman, John Paul Miller personifies a lifetime of creative expression. This exhibition celebrates this living legend and master goldsmith in an installation of more than 50 of his incredible works, including sketchbooks and drawings, spanning nearly 60 years of his illustrious career.
16/06/2010 – 2/01/2011
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Touching Gold - Jacqueline Mina
Contemporary Applied Arts is delighted to announce the launch of Jacqueline Mina’s major retrospective show. Timed to follow her critically acclaimed show at The Goldsmiths’ Company, this touring exhibition offers the opportunity of acquiring rare and unrepeatable pieces dating from the 1980’s to the present day. The exhibition includes the few examples still available of ‘fusioninlay’ – a lavish brocade-like technique in gold & platinum, for which Mina is renowned alongside her exceptional examples of her bold and colourful jewellery in titanium. Jacqueline was winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts in 2000 and has recently shown at COLLECT with CAA’s sister gallery, Electrum. With previous solo shows at the V&A Museum and frequent international exhibitions, her exquisite work is in high demand.
5/08/2011 – 3/09/2011
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ, UK
17/06/2011 – 23/07/2011
Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK
19/11/2011 – 15/01/2012
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1BB UK
Dialogues in Gold - the Jewellery of Jacqueline Mina
Jacqueline Mina is one of the UK's leading goldsmiths. This exhibition will unite, for the first time, significant loans from public and private collections with an exciting selection of new work. Each piece showcases her unique style and mastery of precious metals.
31/01/2011 – 26/02/2011
Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK
Gioielli Vertiginosi. Ada Minola e le avanguardie artistiche a Torino nel secondo dopoguerra
Dizzying jewels. Ada Minola and the artistic avant-garde at Turin after WWII
This exhibition, curated by Paola Stroppiana, is devoted to gold jewellery and in particular that of the artistic and human personality Ada Minola (1912-1993): versatile sculptor, goldsmith, entrepreneur and gallery owner, active in Turin in the second half of the 20th century. It is divided into five sections and shows publicly for the first time 120 jewels which represent the main production characteristics of the goldsmith, focusing on different areas of stylistic influences: from Art Nouveau to Artist's Jewellery, from comparisons with the sculptures of Pomodoro and Lucio Fontana to the neo-Baroque period, from dialogues with the works of Umberto Mastroianni to the universal aesthetic influences of the brilliant architect Carlo Mollino. To enrich the exhibition there is also a constant reference to works of art, drawings, books, and archive photographs that place the objects on display in their accurate historical context. Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale, with texts by Paola Stroppiana and a rich iconography, made possible thanks to the valuable contribution of Gian Enzo Sperone.
6/05/2016 – 12/09/2016
Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Piazza Castello, 10122 Torino, Italy
Tributaries: Jillian Moore
Moore kicks off the Tributaries series for 2009 with an exhibition of her carefully detailed anthropomorphic sculpture and jewelry. Of her work Moore writes "Recently, I've been combining forms that I find appealing based on my interests in biology. I've been creating jewelry forms that become extensions of the body-invented symbiotic organisms. I'm also interested in small sculptural forms that are becoming more abstractly figural as they evolve. I enjoy what is both repellent and seductive."
27/02/2009 - 11/04/2009
The Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, USA
Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Eleanor Moty
Whether referencing the landscape or architecture or both, metalsmith Eleanor Moty creates distinctive jewellery that poetically encompasses both wearer and viewer. Moty first gained recognition in the 1960s and 1970s for using cutting-edge fabrication techniques, such as electroplating and photo-etching—in adornment. She shifted her focus toward including stones in her work and the large-scale brooches she has been creating over the last couple of decades exemplify her dialogue with the “linear imagery” of quartz stones.
With 12 pieces currently in the collection, including an early photo-etched hand mirror and brooches containing large quartzes, RAM ranks Moty as an archive artist. Featuring over 35 works, including several from RAM’s holdings as well as recently finished pieces, this exhibition owes its name to a recently-published monograph on the artist. It follows a similar arc to the book in representing Moty’s working career to date — over 50 years of making.
In addition to examples of her jewellery, the exhibition will include a video where Moty describes her process in-depth as well as sketches borrowed from the artist.
17/08/2022 – 28/01/2023
Racine Art Museum (RAM), 441 Main Street, Racine, WI 53403, USA
Cleto Munari. Jewelry Design
Creative entrepreneur, inventor, designer, patron, Cleto Munari was born in Gorizia in 1930 and makes Vicenza, the city of Palladio, the centre of his professional journey as the "Golden Boy" of "Made in Italy": a journey made up of unique encounters, between which stands out the imprimatur given by the architect Carlo Scarpa, contributes to define a style that will remain unmistakable from the mid-seventies until today. At the Mann, in the staging curated by Alba Cappellieri, will be presented,in a diachronic itinerary, jewels that are unique pieces (maximum nine specimens per jewel), with a focus dedicated to the art of each era.
22/09/2021 - 9/01/2022
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), Sala del Plastico di Pompeii, Piazza museo 19 – 80135 Napoli, Italy
Attitude and Alchemy: The Metalwork of Gary Noffke
Gary Lee Noffke has been described as “a pacesetter” and the “ultimate maverick.” For nearly 50 years, he has consistently and simultaneously created jewelry, hollowware, and flatware, passionately exploring surface, form, and function. This is the first museum-organized project about this consummate artist in almost 20 years. Dating from the 1960s to present day, the exhibition includes approximately 124 examples of his silver and gold hollowware, flatware, and jewelry in addition to a selection of objects forged in steel.
2/04/2011 – 11/09/2011
Mint Museum UPTOWN at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, USA
Spring at Palazzo Fortuny: Barbara Paganin. Open Memory
A Venetian artist, Barbara Paganin (b. 1961) studied metals and jewellery at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Venice and sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. She worked for about a year in the technical department of Venini and then began teaching professional design in 1987 at the Istituto Statale d’Arte Pietro Selvatico in Padua. Since 1988, she has held the chair in professional design for the art of metals and jewellery at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Venice, now the Liceo Artistico Michelangelo Guggenheim, where she also teaches design projects. In 2002, she taught a Master class at the Royal College of London. This exhibition presents jewels and stories that draw their inspiration from the emotions of their past, but which immediately open up to the world too, exploring the memories of others. Tangible elements of a borrowed memory: 19th-century miniatures, porcelain animal good-luck charms depicting mice, hippopotamuses, rabbits, ivory elephants, a little compass, the queen from a chess set… Every brooch tells a story, which can be imagined differently by every observer, adapting it to his own memory. There is no single key to interpret it, but instead a different one for every “reader” of this album of memories composed chapter after chapter. The 25 works are planned as a single corpus, on which Paganin has worked continuously over the past two years, and are designed to be displayed all together for the first time at Palazzo Fortuny.
8/03/2014 – 14/07/2014
Palazzo Fortuny, San Marco 3958, 30124 Venice, Italy
Earl Pardon's Portable Art: Jewelry and Design
This exhibition presents a rare display of more than 100 works by celebrated Southern-born American designer Earl Pardon. On view will be 88 pieces of Pardon's jewellery (which he referred to as his "portable works of art") and a selection of his homeware designs, many of which have never been exhibited together. The assortment of homewares include exceptional examples of production work Pardon created as the assistant director of design for Towle Silversmiths in the 1950s. The jewellery in the exhibition dates from the 1950s to the early 1990s and includes many pieces that reflect Pardon's signature style and inventive use of colour, form, pattern and texture. The artist's often abstract compositions employed the full range of colours available through enamelling, as well as various natural materials including abalone shell, precious metals, gemstones, ivory and ebony. Pardon's jewellery is known for its intimate relationship with the wearer, often having elements in the design that could only be seen and understood by the individual.
ends 7/06/2015
High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
I gioielli di Pinocchio
The story of Pinocchio, by a Tuscan writer, has inspired painters, directors, actors, artists, educators, psychologists; it is extraordinary to read them again, even at different ages, because they always reserve surprises. The exhibition "Fabled playfulness for joys of ornament: the jewels of Pinocchio", previously shown in 1997 and now completely recreated, displays the work of Giuseppe "Beppe" Pasciutti, including drawings (preparatory and definitive) and the jewels that were realised from those sketches by a goldsmith company in Valenza.
17/03/2018 - 15/04/2018
Museo del Bijou, Via Azzo Porzio, 9 - 26041 - Casalmaggiore (CR), Italy
Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), Mexican jewelry and other silver objects were crafted with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity. Antonio Pineda was a member of the Taxco School and is recognized as a world-class designer. Pineda’s jewelry is especially known for its elegant acknowledgment of the human form. It is often said that a Pineda fits the body perfectly, that it feels right when it is worn. Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work will be displayed.
24/08/2008 - 15/03/2009
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
4/06/2010 – 2/01/2011
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Des bijoux à la manière de Pierre-Alain Pingoud
In this unique exhibition, Pierre-Alain Pingoud, a Swiss artist resident in Taroudant, reveals his creative side, inspired by Berber jewellery without giving any impression of imitation. This Amazigh world represents for the artist a true melting pot of generosity in the field of creation of jewellery from which he draws ideas which he reinvents in his own way. For Pierre-Alain Pingoud, the jewel must be invested with its origin; adornment. It must get away from all affectation, both in its form and in its monetary value. It is matched to the wearer; it is individual, it carries in its the function the circumstances of clothing, mood. A rich and diverse collection to discover at the Musée de la Palmeraie.
15/04/2014 – 30/06/2014
Musée de l'art de vivre de Marrakech, 2, Derb Chérif , Diour Saboun, Marrakech, Médina, Morocco
Jewellery by Gio’ Pomodoro. The sign and the Ornament
From his first jewellery items in the 1950s, with which he took part at the Venice Bienniele in 1956, Maestro Gio’ Pomodoro (Orciano di Pesaro 1930 - Milan 2002) developed his gold art production autonomously and constantly over the decades, often in preparation of the results of his sculptures, for which he is universally famous. Exploring the potential of shape and material, even as far back as 1953, Gio’ was already applying the extremely ancient technique of casting gold in cuttlebones, carved in the negative, thus obtaining particular textures on the surfaces, enhancing an extraordinary decorative element. The various types of gold, pink and white, the purposefully moderated inclusion of precious stones, the white gold edging and upside-down border settings characterized his jewellery, which proclaimed a strong organic component and expressed a shift from the figurative to the informal.
22/03/2018 - 2/09/2018
Museo del Gioiello, Piazza dei Signori, 36100 Vicenza, Italy
Necklace for an Elephant and Other Stories. The Working Lives of David Poston
Exuberant and thought-provoking, David Poston’s jewellery designs are, at the same time, minimal and sensual. He always wanted to make jewellery which related to the wearer’s self and which could be worn as much of the day and night as possible. Besides being a jeweller of international fame, Poston has pursued several other careers, some of them simultaneously. For the first time, this exhibition brings together the different aspects of his creative career to show the significant wider impact he has made.
6/12/2014 – 25/01/2015
The Ruthin Craft Centre, Centre for the Applied Arts, Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1BB, UK
13/02/2015 7/03/2015
Middlesex University, Hendon campus, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT, UK
25/04/2015 – 21/06/2015
The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3LW, UK
1/07/2015 – 13/09/2015
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB, UK
20/09/2015 – 7/11/2015
Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Parklands, Milton Keynes MK14 5DZ UK
1/01/2016 – 20/01/2016
School of Jewellery, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Vittoria Street, Birmingham B1 3PA, UK
12/02/2016 – 26/03/2016
Dovecot Gallery, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT, UK
Felicity Powell - Charmed Life: The solace of objects
This exhibition is the result of the artist Felicity Powell’s engagement with a collection of 1400 amulets assembled by the Edwardian amateur folklorist Edward Lovett. One of the few people to have had access to this curious collection of ‘charms’, once carried in the pockets of Londoners for luck or protection, Powell was intrigued by the silent witness they bore to countless personal narratives. Amulets have appeared throughout history and across many cultures in an infinite variety of forms. Each has been invested with the hope or belief that it could somehow mediate on behalf of its owner. Reflecting on the potency – sometimes alluring, sometimes repellent – of these much-touched objects, Powell found parallels with her own artistic practice.
6/10/2011 – 26/02/2012
Wellcome Collection, London NW1 2BE, UK
Made in Aotearoa: Jewellery by Alan Preston
This exhibition showcases one of New Zealand’s greatest artisans, whose desire to create a “jewellery of this place” saw him spearhead a movement in favour of materials from Aotearoa and the Pacific. In the late 1970s Alan Preston abandoned western jewellery making traditions in favour of locally found materials and techniques. From delicate shell necklaces to politically charged sovereignty badges, Preston began crafting beautiful objects with symbolic meaning. The exhibition features some of his most riveting work, much of it influenced and discovered between the tides and inspired by artefacts at Auckland Museum.
7/03/2009 - 31/05/2009
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
The Jewelry of Dorothea Prühl
A celebration of sculptural form and material mastery, 'The Jewelry of Dorothea Prühl' marks the first U.S. exhibition dedicated to the German artist. Spanning nearly five decades of her work, this presentation features a series of necklaces and brooches that exemplify Dorothea Prühl’s visionary approach to contemporary jewellery.
Internationally recognised for her bold, expressive forms crafted in wood and metal, Prühl (born 1937) trained in the traditions of the Bauhaus. Her expressive compositions and seemingly simple gestures belie a complexity and degree of craftsmanship that is unmatched in contemporary practice. Each element is painstakingly carved or formed, resulting in compositions that feel both monumental and intimate.
Prühl attended the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, and returned to lead its jewellery and metalsmithing department for many years. In addition to shaping her own body of work, Prühl influenced generations of artists through her long career as a teacher and mentor.
Comprising necklaces and brooches dating from 1976 to 2025, 'The Jewelry of Dorothea Prühl' is the result of an extraordinary gift from the Rotasa Collection Trust. The MFAH now holds the largest public collection of Prühl’s jewellery in the world.
6/09/2025 – 3/01/2026
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, 5500 Main Street, Houston, TX 77004, USA
Dorothea Prühl – Necklaces
Dorothea Prühl is a leading exponent of the current art jewellery scene. Her aesthetic stance is informed by abstract impressions from nature, concentration on essentials, eminent sensitivity and sculptural power. She makes basic statements in gold and silver – but also in wood, aluminium, titanium and stainless steel – impressions manifest in generously proportioned, clear entities. Starting with what is there, she tracks it down to its inmost core, applying to its quintessence a new aesthetic idiom – it might be a flower, the wind, a house, birds in flight …
14/03/09 – 17/05/09
The Neue Sammlung, State Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Munich, Germany
‘Seven Skills and a Lot of Bushes’ - Wolfgang Rahs
For some years the Ortwein Scholars, mediated by the Province of Styria’s Department 9 of Culture, Europe, Sport, have shown their works as part of the Schaudepot (showcase) at the History Museum. In 2021, Wolfgang Rahs, Graz-based jewellery artist and long-standing teacher at the Ortweinschule, will continue this series, showing a cross-section of his creative work as part of and adjacent to the corresponding area of the Schaudepot.
The connection in terms of content to the exhibition and book arises from the History Museum’s collection of decorative arts and from the presentation of the same newly arranged by Wolfgang Rahs in the Schaudepot, to be found close by Room 207.
Besides the exhibition ‘Seven Skills and a Lot of Bushes’, the existing avantgarde jewellery in the History Museum’s collection will go on show for the first time. With his commitment and exhibition, we present in the person of Wolfgang Rahs an ‘outstanding representative of the Austrian jewellery art scene’ (Dirk Allgaier) to the Styrian public.
16/10/2021 - 12/12/2021
History Museum, Sackstraße 16, 8010 Graz, Austria
Wendy Ramshaw: Black & White
Wendy Ramshaw CBE RDI, one of the UK's leading contemporary designers reflects on the use of black and white materials within her jewellery, from the 1960s to the present day. Diamonds, gold, perspex, paper, ceramic and moonstone to name a few. The Lesley Craze Gallery has been an internationally recognised showcase for contemporary jewellery, metalwork and textiles for nearly 30 years. It represents up to 100 different artists from the world over: Australia, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, Italy, Sweden and, of course, the very best of emerging and renowned names from the UK.
8/05/2014 – 7/06/2014
Lesley Craze Gallery, 35 Clerkenwell Green London EC1R 0DU, UK
Wendy Ramshaw: Room of Dreams
As one of Britain's leading contemporary designers, Wendy Ramshaw is renowned for her stunning jewellery and distinctive large-scale public art. This major exhibition will show key pieces spanning the past fifty years of her acclaimed career. A fully illustrated book will accompany the exhibition.
28/03/2012 – 24/06/2012
Terrace rooms, Somerset House, The Strand, London WC2R 1LA, UK
12/09/2014 – 4/12/2014
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ, UK
23/05/2015 – 22/05/2016
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH, UK
Maria Paola Ranfi. Gioiello intimo colloquio
Maria Paola Ranfi. An Intimate Jewellery Conversation
An exhibition of over 60 pieces of jewellery and sculpture by the artist Maria Paola Ranfi made with lost wax in gold, bronze, silver and precious stones with rare and very special cuts, from the 1990s until today. it is divided into different sections: Liberty and animalier suggestions; The path of the soul; The awakening of the righteous, plus new works from the unpublished collection Mutanti, the Venetian Mask series, and some Sculptures in resin, ceramic and bronze. Maria Paola Ranfi's jewels, particularly in tune with the style and atmosphere of the Casina delle Civette that hosts them, are true "sculptures to wear" as she herself likes to define them. Elegance, balance and movement characterise the important shapes that, with great artisan knowledge, Maria Paola Ranfi always manages to harmonise with the bodies to which they are destined, creating an "intimate conversation".
26/10/2019 - 26/01/2020
Museums of Villa Torlonia, Casina delle Civette, Via Santa Lucia, 59, 35139 Padova PD, Italy
21/01/2020 - 29/03/2020
Musei di Villa Torlonia - Casina delle Civette, Via Nomentana 70 - 00161 Roma, Italy
The Portland Miniatures: JAR
Joel Arthur Rosenthal, known as JAR, is celebrated for his intricate and extraordinary jewellery. The Paris-based designer makes work for an elite clientele; drawing from the natural beauty of precious stones, and combining their often vibrant colour with sculptural design. His finely tuned expert eye and exacting personal taste are second to none. For this exhibition, JAR turns his eye to The Portland Miniatures. He has chosen an intriguing selection of jewel-sized paintings. In addition, these miniatures are accompanied by some of his favourite pieces of jewellery from The Portland Collection. A highlight of the exhibition is a pair of rings that we believe were last together in 1786 – this exhibition will bring them together for the first time in over 230 years.
22/05/2018 – 31/12/2018
The Harley Gallery, The Courtyard at Welbeck, A60 Mansfield Road, Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 3LW, UK
Jewels by JAR
This exhibition features more than 400 works by one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the last thirty-five years, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR. Born in New York and educated at Harvard, Rosenthal moved to Paris soon after his graduation in 1966 and began to experiment with jewelry making. JAR opened in 1978 on the Place Vendôme—the same space he occupies today. Very early in his career, Rosenthal revealed his superb sense of color, whether in the hue of an exotic violet sapphire, the shimmer of topaz and ruby, or the simple clarity of a perfect diamond. His works quickly became known for their unique design, the quality of their stones, and their remarkable craftsmanship, but above all for their fearless beauty. He is known for his pavé technique—the setting of small stones so close together that they appear as a continuous surface of jewels—and uses subtle gradations of color to create a painterly effect. This exhibition is be the first devoted to a contemporary artist of gems at the Metropolitan Museum and will feature a selection of JAR's finest pieces—from jewels in classical flower forms and organic shapes to witty objets d'art—all executed with the most exquisite gem stones including diamonds, sapphires, garnets, topazes, tourmalines, and citrines in an original combination of colors. Rosenthal's one-of-a-kind creations place him among the ranks of history's greatest jewelers. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of his work in America; the only other major exhibition of Rosenthal's work was held in 2002 at Somerset House in London.
20/11/2013 - 9/03/2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY 10028, USA
Rings of Dieter Roth. Wearable art of a universal artist
The renowned Swiss painter, graphic artist, sculptor, object artist, typographer and poet Dieter Roth (1930 - 1998) developed since 1959 over a period of twenty years for the goldsmith Hans Langenbacher a series of finger rings. On display are all (approximately 50) rings and ring attachments, plus prints, sketches, designs, drawings and correspondence between Roth and Langenbacher.
29/10/2009 - 10/01/2010
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Ich sage Schmuck, aber meine den kreativen Prozess. Gerd Rothmann. Schmuck und Gerät
I say jewellery, but mine is a creative process. Gerd Rothmann. Jewellery and artefacts
Gerd Rothmann began his training as a gold and silversmith at the State Academy Hanau exactly 50 years ago, after an apprenticeship as a toolmaker. In this exhibiiton, 120 exhibits can be seen in 34 display cases, a retrospective of works from 1967 until today.
18/09/2011 – 9/11/2011
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany
Fantasien in Gold und Silber
Fantasies in gold and silver
Caroline Rügge has had a gallery workshop in Fleischauerstrasse in Lübeck since 1996 and has made a name for herself as a goldsmith with her individual jewellery and object design in the Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg art scene. In her impressive pieces of jewellery, chandeliers and vessels, she combines gold, silver and (semi) precious stones with paper, wood, stone, metal and glass. This creates exciting works between usability and pure aesthetics. The motifs that Caroline Rügge uses in her jewellery and vessels are often borrowed from nature and modelled in silver and gold. But there are also pieces of jewellery in which she processes parts found in nature directly. So some works are not really portable in the end, e.g. if filigree wasp nests adorn the finger ring, but that is precisely what gives them a new, purely artistic facet.
Spring 2021 - cancelled due to covid
Ostholstein Museum, Schlossplatz 1, 23701 Eutin, Germany
Philip Sajet: Collections Collected
Philip Sajet makes jewellery which combines a high level of aesthetics with an unprecedented level of discipline. CODA Museum in Apeldoorn presents the retrospective exhibition "Collected Collections' of the renowned jewellery artist Philip Sajet. This special exhibition contains 14 collections, generously made available by dedicated collectors of the work of Philip Sajet.
18/09/2010 - 18/03/2011
Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Jewels of the Imagination: Radiant Masterworks by Jean Schlumberger from the Mellon Collection
The glittering jewellery designs of Jean Schlumberger were the epitome of mid-century elegance. Inspired by nature, his creations graced such notable style icons as Jacqueline Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn. This exhibition highlights the work of this innovative artist, placing his jewellery and objets d’art as inimitable examples of 20th-century design. Beginning his career as a designer of costume jewellery for couturier Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s, Schlumberger was, by 1956, Vice President of Tiffany & Co. with his own design salon at their Fifth Avenue headquarters. He drew inspiration from such exotic locales as Bali, India, and Thailand, and this is reflected by his lively, experimental designs that play with colour, movement, and shape. This exhibition brings together the extensive Schlumberger collection of Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon, donated to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts between 1985 and 2015. It is the largest, most comprehensive public collection of Jean Schlumberger’s work in the world.
15/12/2018 - 31/03/2019
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
255 Beach Dr NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Jean Schlumberger: Twentieth Century Treasures from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
This exhibition features more than 100 unique pieces of visually stunning jewellery and accessories designed by mid-20th century artist-jeweller Jean Schlumberger. From crafting costume jewellery for the Surrealist fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1930s Paris to heading his own private salon at New York’s Tiffany & Co. beginning in the 1950s, Schlumberger was known for inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects and iconic pieces that came to define mid-century chic.
30/05/2019 - 1/09/2019
National Museum of China (NMC), 16 East Chang'an Avenue, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006, China
15/10/2019 - 15/01/2020
National Museum of Qatar, Museum Park Street, Doha, Qatar
The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection of Jean Schlumberger
Artist-jeweler Jean Schlumberger transformed 20th-century fashion with his sculptural designs for vibrant and whimsical jewellery and accessories inspired by nature. From crafting costume jewellery for designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1930s Paris to heading his own private salon at New York’s Tiffany & Co. beginning in the 1950s, Schlumberger was known for inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects and iconic pieces that came to define mid-century chic. His witty designs for objects ranging from cigarette cases and pill boxes to brooches, necklaces, and bracelets were popular with some of the most celebrated women of the day and are among the highlights of the Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection of Jean Schlumberger at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. VMFA now holds the largest and most comprehensive public collection of jewellery and art objects by this renowned French designer. These works of art — many of which are on public display for the first time — collectively reveal the dedication to perfection and beauty, dazzling imagination, and clarity of vision that united the artist and his great patron.
10/02/2017 - 18/06/2017
VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia, 23220, USA
Joyce J. Scott: Messages
Joyce J. Scott is a dynamic artist and performer, best known for her use of beadwork as her artistic medium of choice. Scott uses beads to create highly detailed intricate three-dimensional sculptures and neckpieces that are commentaries on a range of subjects: racism, misogyny, equality, her heritage, and much more. Art has always surrounded Scott, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, where she still lives. She grew up learning from and watching her mother, fiber artist Elizabeth Talford Scott, create uniquely stitched quilts, a skill Elizabeth learned from her mother, and she draws greatly on the artistic heritage of her family and culture. Her beadwork uses those traditional techniques to address contemporary issues in a bold and confrontational manner, creating works of art that are both beautiful and significant. Scott was named a MacArthur Fellow, also known as the MacArthur “Genius Grant”, in 2016, solidifying her status as an important contemporary American artist whose creations continue to push artistic boundaries. Each work of art on exhibit speaks to Scott’s ability with such an intricate medium and demonstrates her commitment to using beads to explore the difficult subjects in society that confront Black Americans.
17/01/2023 – 14/05/2023
Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Scheman Building (2nd Floor), 1805 Center Drive, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
24/06/2023 – 5/11/2024
Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301, USA
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams
This exhibition is a 50-year career retrospective of artist Joyce J. Scott, one of the most significant artists of our time.
Co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum (SAM), this exhibition was developed in close dialogue with the Baltimore-based artist and her collaborators to reveal the full breadth of Scott’s singular vision through more than 120 objects from public and private collections across the United States. The exhibition will feature significant examples of the artist’s sculpture — both stand-alone and wearable pieces — alongside performance footage, garments, prints, and materials from Scott’s personal archive. 'Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams' also features a newly commissioned installation and an expansive catalogue.
Joyce J. Scott comes from a long line of makers in her family who created beautiful, functional objects in their quest for freedom out of slavery, sharecropping, migration, and segregation. A companion exhibition of Scott’s mother’s work, 'Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott' will be presented at the BMA from November 12, 2023, through April 28, 2024.
24/03/2024 – 14/07/2024
Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
17/10/2024 - 19/01/2025
Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
Ina Seidl. Jewellery
Inspired by bees and honeycombs, Ina Seidl forms unique surfaces and structures using wax, in order to use the material that has now processed to the point of no longer being recognizable for her unique items of cast jewelry. The metamorphosis that the pieces of jewelry undergo while being produced symbolize those changes that characterize life.
5/05/2010 – 26/10/2010
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Radical. Peter Skubic. Jewellery
The Austrian Peter Skubic (*1935) is still considered the 'agent provocateur' among jewellery artists today. His first works in gold were created around 1969. At that time he and his friends declared: "We're creating art. That's a revolution." Within a short time he was considered one of the most highly-regarded and influential newcomers in this field internationally. The central principles of his design are austerity, clarity of proportion, precision, radical minimalism and uncompromising rebelliousness. Tension brooches, balancing objects - these are characteristic namings of just two groups of works. The artist/engineer Peter Skubic sees making jewellery as an experiment, a body happening, a creative liberating act going beyond established borders.
19/03/2011 – 15/05/2011
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, this exhibition features 24 pieces of silver and gold jewelry, primarily the gift of Charles Russell, Smith’s companion and heir, created by African American artist, Art Smith, as well as select pieces by his contemporaries. Inspired by surrealism, biomorphism, and primitivism, Smith was one of the leading modernist jewelers of the mid-twentieth century. His work is dynamic in both size and form. The presentation is enriched by archival materials from the artist’s estate, including sketches, tools, and model photos. Smith was an active supporter of black and gay civil rights, an avid jazz enthusiast, and a supporter of early black modern dance groups.
14/05/2008 - 21/02/2010
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
22/02/2014 – 18/05/2014
Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, USA
14/06/2014 – 7/12/2014
Dallas Museum of Art DMA, 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas 75201, USA
21/06/2015 – 13/09/2015
The High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
Jewellery by Bettina Speckner and Daniel Spoerri
Bettina Speckner's jewellery invites the viewer to pause for a while and figure out the secret behind the faded photos of former times. Her pieces encourage us to approach them while at the same time warning us to handle them with care.
8/02/2014 – 27/04/2014
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstrasse 42, D-75173, Pforzheim, Germany
Fired, Crafted and Blown
New ceramic jewellery from Jane Stirzaker-Evans
17/09/2011 – 21/01/2012
Akihiko Takeda - Gioielli d'arte
This exhibition celebrates the connection between the Counts of Arco and Japan, as well as highlighting the life and works of contemporary artist Akihiko Takeda. The exhibition, entirely dedicated to the world of art jewellery, is the first to be hosted within the Palazzo and reinforces the d'Arco Foundation's commitment to promoting and fostering a dialogue between applied arts, fashion, and culture.
The exhibition unfolds around the concepts of fashion and preciousness, exploring not only the intrinsic value of the exhibited works but also their ability to express identity, memory, and beauty. To complete the project, two events dedicated to the Japanese kimono are planned, conceived as thematic extensions of the exhibition: the first focuses on the everyday use of the kimono in contemporary life, the second on its ceremonial use. These events will offer further insights into the relationship between dress and tradition, contextualizing the art jewellery collection on display.
Ninety-four previously unpublished works by the Japanese artist narrate the dialogue between Japan and the West. A journey through the art of goldsmithing, conducted with tireless research and creative sensitivity, that takes us on a journey between Japanese tradition and Western influences.
13/09/2025 - 6/01/2026
Museo di Palazzo d'Arco, piazza Carlo d'Arco, 4, Mantova (MN), Italy
PAINT: Rachelle Thiewes
'PAINT: Rachelle Thiewes' is an exhibition that highlights a body of work inspired by the vibrant colours of lowrider automotive paint found across the Chihuahuan desert landscape. The art and design of Rachelle Thiewes challenges definitions within the domains of jewellery making and sculpture. Working within the realm of art and adornment, her striking pieces express innovative uses of patinas and luminosity, all while exploring the cultural specificity of paint.
Rachelle Thiewes is a nationally and internationally recognized metalsmith whose sculptural jewellery can be found in over twenty permanent collections. Thiewes is also a celebrated educator who led the Metal Arts department at the University of Texas at El Paso, inspiring generations of artists in the Borderlands.
30/05/2025 – 21/09/2025
El Paso Museum of Art, One Arts Festival Plaza, El Paso, TX 79901, USA
Blanche Tilden—ripple effect: a 25 year survey
This 25 year survey of the work of Melbourne-based jeweller and maker Blanche Tilden reveals her remarkable and critically acclaimed practice. Tilden has a unique approach to her materials, in particular, glass, which she explores both as a material for jewellery making and deploys as a metaphor for the connections between making, industry, the wearable object and the body. Her fascination with mechanical devices, fuelled by a desire to understand how things work, continually inspires her work. This first comprehensive survey of Tilden’s career includes historical and contemporary works loaned from numerous public and private collections. Tilden has reinterpreted previous work to create new forms that expand on her preoccupations with value, mechanical movement, and industrial and architectural uses of glass, translating something of the macro immensity of the built and material world to the intimacy of the jewellery object.
8/05/2021 - 1/08/2021
Geelong Gallery, Little Malop Street, Geelong 3220, Australia
11/12/2021 - 13/02/2022
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Corner of Baylis & Morrow Streets, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650, Australia
Ulrike Kleine-Behnke. Silke Trekel. Material. Form. Schmuck
From the manifold collection of the German Goldsmith's House, jewellery of well-known artists - Bruno Martinazzi, Hermann Jünger, Ebbe Weiss-Weingart - as well as relating to exceptional materials and techniques will be presented in the context of the history of jewellery.
For her jewellery with its characteristic clear forms and eschewal of the superfluous, Ulrike Kleine-Behnke likes to use natural materials. As Kleine-Behnke herself describes, hers are small wearable objects that invite diverse and multiple interpretations. The jewellery artist draws on nature and environment as a source of ideas. She is enthused by a particular shape, colour or even surface structures, such as those of a piece of wood. Blossoms, leaves, and buds inspired by Nature’s wealth of forms are a recurring theme of her works. The effect exuded by the piece is important to her, not the material’s value. In her view, silver is a perfect complement to other materials. She folds or enchases, casts or mounts the metal. Ulrike Kleine-Behnke allows her light and wearable shapes and volumes to grow in a dynamic process. The Leipzig-born jewellery artist, whose jewellery is also on show at the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig, lives and works in Dachau.
Silke Trekel’s pieces illustrate both her focus on large shapes, volumes, and plasticity and also her joy in experimenting with materials and techniques. She prefers to create three-dimensional, sculptural forms with an almost architectonic structure. The jewellery artist found her inspiration in contact with far-eastern or western cultures. Influences by the sculptural oeuvre of the minimalist Carl Andre are also evident. The results include various stand-alone individual pieces made of serial industrial products, such as porcelain slabs. The voluminous works are made wearable by her use of light materials such as balsa wood or sheet metal. Titanium, silver, iron, plastic are likewise among her materials. In the balance between simplicity in the large shape and abundant detail, Silke Trekel arrives at a convincing result, at wearable pieces of jewellery that can also be individual sculptural objects. Works by the Rostock-born jewellery artist can be admired at establishments including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (GB) and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (USA).
12/09/2021 - 10/11/2021
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany
Le trésor des bijoux d'Elsa
This exhibition shows 30 out of 56 parures (including forty-eight necklaces) made by Elsa Triolet, the muse of Louis Aragon, which belong to the commune of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. The early 1930s were not a good period. Aragon and Triolet had little money, and the costume jewellery she made, and which they sold door to door, became a major source of income for them. It even happened that some was sold to renowned designers such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Captain Molyneux, Paul Poiret and Madeleine Vionnet.
29/01/2014 – 10/02/2014
La chapelle Saint-Elme, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
14/11/2015 - 3/04/2016
Musée d’Art, Histoire et Archéologie, 6 rue Charles Corbeau, 27000 Evreux, France
28/10/2017 - 12/03/2018
Château-Musée, H Rue de Chastes, 76200 Dieppe, France
Rings etc.- Jewellery of Barbara Uderzo
Collection of Blob rings and brooches
21/03/2009 – 26/04/2009
Casa Cogollo detta del Palladio, Vicenza, Italy
Jewellery Circus/Smykkesirkus - Felieke van der Leest
Originally hailing from the Netherlands, Felieke van der Leest now lives and works in Hardanger, Norway, where she creates toys and humoristic jewellery with plastic animals, precious metals and textiles. Educated as both a pictorial artist and a goldsmith, she has developed a singular expression by enriching jewellery design with textile techniques. Van der Leest is represented by galleries in Tokyo, New York and Amsterdam, and her works are coveted and collected by individuals and museums the world over. In 2006 the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art presented the exhibition Jewellery Fables, which included an overview of her artistic practice. With the uniqueness and humour of the hippopotamus-ring Prima Ballerina Hippo-Lolita and Cowboy Lion Cub’s Necklace, it is easy to understand why van der Leest’s works are popular. But, she warns, ‘you need guts to wear these things, because you will attract attention’.
29/05/2010 – 9/01/2011
West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen, Norway
Jean Vendome, Artist Jeweler
Jean Vendome, an adventurous creator and true artist, created his own world of art. He bucked fashion trends with his own personal and pioneering style, which means that his pieces have personality, but are also visually balanced owing to their proportionality with the golden ratio. Simple yet sophisticated, powerful yet intricate, eccentric yet well-designed, constructed and deconstructed, Jean Vendome’s jewellery is emotional and never rational. In order to be appreciated fully, it must be loved and understood, as it is the jewellery that chooses the wearer. The private collections on display will emphasise the visionary side of his creations. 130 pieces will be on show, including Aléna Caillois’ wonderful necklace. The retrospective will also feature pieces from public collections at institutions including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, as well as the sword of the academician Roger Caillois, on special loan from the Musée des Confluences in Lyon.
15/12/2020 - 28/08/2021
L'École in Paris, 31 rue Danielle Casanova 75001 Paris, France
Tone Vigeland. Schmuck - Objekt - Skulptur
Scandinavian studio jewellery is quite inconceivable without Tone Vigeland and her oeuvre. Already in the early 1960s, Tone Vigeland’s jewellery featured regularly in what are today considered legendary exhibitions and publications, for example, in the 1961 “International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery” at Goldsmiths' Hall London, which first presented to the public the emerging studio jewellery movement. Now Die Neue Sammlung is devoting to the grande dame of Scandinavian studio jewellery the first solo show on the European continent outside Scandinavia – 50 years after her first solo presentation took place 1967 in Kunstnerneshus in Oslo. The exhibition has been produced in close collaboration with the artist. Featuring some 150 works it provides an overview of Tone Vigeland’s studio jewellery from the years 1958 to 1995, an overview accompanied by a selection of objects and sculptures from 1998 until today.
11/03/2017 - 11/06/2017
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 München, Germany
David Watkins - Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972 - 2010)
Celebrate the career of David Watkins, leading British artist jeweller and sculptor in metal. This retrospective will feature 68 pieces of jewellery that show how his early jewellery as miniature sculptures developed to become large scale wearable objects that also exist independently as art objects. The use of different techniques, materials and styles displayed across these pieces will show his versatility as an artist jeweller and herald Watkins as a contemporary force in international design.
24/07/09 – 18/10/09
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
23/02/2010 – 26/09/2010
Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A South Kensington, London, UK
Master Metalsmith. Linda Watson: Looking Back
Lynda Watson, a native of Orange, California, knew she was destined to be an artist when she began making jewelry out of vacuum cleaner parts in a friend’s garage. Her official foray into the art world began with an AA in Commercial Art from Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, CA) followed by a period of time spent working for the Buzza Cardozo greeting card company. Watson went on to attend California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, CA), where she completed some undergraduate work in Drawing and Illustration before receiving a BA in General Crafts and Jewelry and MA and MFA in Jewelry/Metals.
The composite of Watson’s work forms a visual diary. It tells a story in a rough chronological order with some “life happens” gaps along the way. It continues to recall, document, relive, explore, and savor memorable times from the many places where she has spent her time. She hopes that viewing these pieces prompts memories from observers as well. Everyone has visual memories that can evoke valued responses.
2/10/2022 – 29/01/2023
The Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive, Memphis, TN 38106, USA
Designing for Doris - David Webb Jewelry
The desire to fashion something new and fabulous from something old and cherished brought Doris Duke into David Webb's New York jewellery shop for the first time in November 1957. The resulting spectacular diamond brooch was just the first of many treasures that Duke would commission from David Webb in the next 12 years. In 1957 Duke also reopened Rough Point, her childhood summer home, after an absence of many years. Newport inspired her interest in another kind of renewal – the revitalization of the city's Colonial streetscapes and in 1968 the founding of the Newport Restoration Foundation. In both design pursuits Duke played a close personal role, and drawings allowed her to follow and respond throughout the creative process. Each of the thirty drawings in this exhibition tells the story of jewellery commissioned by Doris Duke (1912-1993) or the restoration of 18th-century buildings in Newport. They were drawn by the jeweller David Webb (1925-1975) and his staff of renderers or by architects employed by the Newport Restoration Foundation, and they all represent a transformation or reinvention of one sort or another. Tying them together is a common thread of practical beauty inspired by the singular personality of Doris Duke, for whom they were made.
5/04/2018 – 11/11/2018
Rough Point Mansion, Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport, RI, USA
David Webb: Society's Jeweler
This exhibition will explore Webb as a jewelry designer whose work was realized with technical mastery and who was viewed as a high-society figure whose clientele included Jacqueline Kennedy, Doris Duke, and Diana Vreeland. The exhibition will bring together some 80 extraordinary examples of Webb jewelry: necklaces, rings, and other pieces rendered in hammered gold, jade, coral, enamel, and precious stones. In addition, the exhibition will feature preparatory drawings and special displays that will offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the making of Webb jewelry. Artworks, photographs, publications, and advertisements also will situate Webb within the visual culture of the 1960s.
16/01/2014 - 13/04/2014
Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA
NOW – Jewels by Norman Weber
Exhibition of the work of the Schwäbisch jeweller born in 1964. Weber's jewellery includes both what is fashionable,and what is traditional, its entire history, while its complete transformation, its satire, its exaggeration and its negation, are always performed with joy and ambiguity.
2/09/2010 - 5/11/2010
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany
8/05/2011 – 28/08/2011
Museum und Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Ebbe Weiss-Weingart. Avantgardistin und Altmeisterin des Schmucks
From the manifold collection of the German Goldsmith's House, jewellery of well-known artists - Bruno Martinazzi, Hermann Jünger, Ebbe Weiss-Weingart - as well as relating to exceptional materials and techniques will be presented in the context of the history of jewellery.
With her incisive works, Ebbe Weiss Weingart (1923-2019) rendered a significant contribution to the revival of artistic jewellery post-1945. Experiments with unusual techniques, materials and design media were at the forefront for this master goldsmith. Closer illumination of this abundant spectrum is provided by selected jewellery items from a period of creativity that lasted more than 70 years.
10/10/2021 - 15/05/2022
Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Altstädter Markt 6, 63450 Hanau, Germany
Man, Machine and Jewellery. Björn Weckström
Björn Weckström's 85th anniversary exhibition presents the artist´s two contrasting worlds – impressive sculptures in bronze with mythological themes, artifacts in stone and glass, as well as jewellery in gold and silver produced for Lapponia Jewelry. The sculptures are from the artist´s collection and the jewellery section of the exhibition is prepared in collaboration with Kalevala Koru, owner of Lapponia Jewelry.
11/09/2021 - 30/01/2022
Didrichsen Art Museum
Kuusilahdenkuja 1, 00340, Helsinki, Finland
A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver
Clara Barck Welles has long been recognised as the founder and owner of the Kalo Shop of Chicago, famous for its elegant Arts & Craft silver hollowware, flatware, and jewellery. Under her tutelage, the Kalo Shop trained and supported generations of designers, jewellers and silversmiths from its heyday from the early 1900s through the depression, until it finally closed in 1970. Originally formed in 1900 by Clara Barck (still unmarried at the time) and five other women graduates of the School of Art Institute of Chicago, the Kalo Shop was incorporated by Barck in 1905. Owned and directed by her, it was, as Darling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths, “the city’s most influential concern producing handwrought silver.” She served as its proprietor, manager, and guiding light until her retirement in 1939, when she moved to San Diego. In 1959, at the age of 91 years old, she gave the business to its remaining four employees.
Focusing on a select number of stellar works from the Kalo Shop and silversmiths in its orbit, and complementing the exhibition with scholarship on Clara Barck Welles’s larger career and social concerns, "A New Woman – Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration and Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver" will document an important chapter in the history of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The well-illustrated exhibition catalogue will demonstrate the intrinsic quality of the works on view, and offer a fascinating window into the life of the uniquely gifted woman who was at their centre.
9/10/2021 – 2/10/2022
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden
Nancy Worden is a Seattle artist who creates intensely personal narrative jewelry that explores universal themes and various rites of passage from a woman’s perspective. Organized by the Tacoma Art Museum, the exhibition presents a wide range of work created over the past 35 years drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
27/06/2009 - 11/10/2009
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA
21/11/09 - 17/01/2010
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, USA
Max Ernst – The Würth Collection
Max Ernst (1891–1976) ranks among the most inspiring and influential artists of the 20th century. His oeuvre’s charismatic appeal has lasted well beyond his era. Parts of his biographical notes are fictitious, and he always remained ironically detached from his own works and techniques. His pictures feature figurative elements as well as imaginary forms, and his works have been created from mixed media. Max Ernst was a crossover artist and a master of the realm of “in-betweenness”. Like his life, his oeuvre is characterised by disjunctions and thematic changes, both of which combine to express his visionary, sceptical concept of the world. In the Würth Collection, Max Ernst occupies a central artistic position. A unique collection of books and graphics constitutes the core of the Max Ernst section, making this surrealist’s almost unsurpassably diverse, seemingly boundless visual universe experientially accessible, starting from his very first creations all the way through to his fantastic later works. Several of the artist’s sculptures will also be displayed in this exhibition. In addition, the Jewellery Museum will be showcasing selected pieces from its own collection to enter into dialog with Max Ernst’s artworks.
18/07/2020 - 17/01/2021
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Jahnstraße 42, 75173 Pforzheim, Germany
Helga Zahn. Schmuck. Unikat und Serie
Helga Zahn was one of the leading jewellery artists in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, but was born in Germany in 1936. In 1957, she exchanged her home town for the bustling life of London, where she made her start in the "swinging sixties" and the emergence of the "pop art movement". She was one of the mainstays of "studio jewellery", a post-World War II movement that understood jewellery as a novel and independent art form. The exhibition, conceived by the Neue Sammlung, for the first time honours this almost forgotten jewellery artist and shows a large part of her rich oeuvre.
3/03/2020 - 31/05/2020 - cancelled due to corona virus
Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer St. 40, München, Germany
Alberto Zorzi Unicum – Jewellery and Silver 2000-2010
80 unique works of Alberto Zorzi (Padua, 1958): sculptural jewellery (gold, silver, precious stones, oil painting, glass), plus six large silver works that at first glance seem only decorative, whereas they hide the function of "revealing" the vases, bowls, centerpieces. All created in the last decade, they were specifically selected by the artist for their relationship with the place, space, objects, clothing and textiles in the museum.
4/09/2010 – 9/01/2011
Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Zorzi 1973-2009: Jewellery, silver and drawings
Alberto Zorzi’s incessant research into the jeweller’s art is presented here in the form of a one man show devoted to the artist-goldsmith from Padua, whose work is already present in the permanent collection of contemporary jewellery in the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti. Over thirty years of activity and an inexhaustible creative vein translated into the most sophisticated techniques which, every time and in every piece, reinterpret and repropose the relations of the metal and the precious stones with form in space. This is not only the absolute and abstract space of the showcase, but rather the space of that special shape, always the same and always different, that is the human body.
29/07/2009 – 01/11/2009
Museo degli Argenti, Florence, Italy