John Moore
UK
John Moore creates his unique pieces of wearable sculpture from brightly coloured, anodised aluminium. With a degree in 3D design, he fearlessly produces new forms of jewellery that are exciting, alternative and extremely wearable. Inspired by nature, his current collections, Elytra and Vane, include necklaces, pendants, bracelets and earrings. With emphasis on colour, movement and tactility, his jewellery is designed, not only a visual statement, but to give those who dare an altogether different experience.
Tania Clarke Hall
UK
Tania Clarke Hall crafts her jewellery from leather to produce confident, eye catching and versatile collections.
Her designs are driven by a love of experimentation and her desire to challenge the way in which leather is used in jewellery. Her inspiration is eclectic: the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi, the beauty of geometric solutions and tribal jewellery.
The resulting work is innovative, sculptural and bold. Flashes of colour highlight slashed, twisted and moulded leather forms and flat pieces of leather playfully transform into multidimensional necklaces. Her jewellery is not only stunning and highly wearable, but also environmentally friendly. Only vegetable tanned leather is used in her work.
Craig Mcauley
UK
Craig Macauley is a graduate of the Manchester School of Art.
His current work was inspired by the discovery of the process for creating the unique resin droplet effect on individual strands of nylon monofilament. The finished effect prompts associations with the way early morning dew forms on the webs of spiders.
Each piece in the collection is made up of multiple strands of nylon monofilament that have been individually hand coated in dyed or clear resin and then constructed into innovative statement jewellery.
Angie Boothroyd
UK
Angie Boothroyd has been creating her own unique style of contemporary designer jewellery since she first set up her London workshop in 2001. Her aim was to create a new gold aesthetic, to offer precious jewellery that was relaxed enough to wear every day, yet luxurious enough to make you feel special.
Each piece of Angie Boothroyd jewellery is hand crafted to the highest standard, using a combination of age-old goldsmithing techniques and cutting-edge technology. Only golds of 18 carat and above are used, in a distinctive range of colours encompassing the spectrum of yellow, rose, and even green golds. These rich hues, shimmering with luscious surface textures, come together in her range of refreshingly light and modern, yet timeless, designs.
Momoko Kumai
UK
Momoko Kumai`s jewellery is inspired by the concept of movement and fluidity. Each carefully engineered piece consists of a three-dimensional geometric shape in gold alloyed from nine to twenty-two carat. All designs, when worn, create an illusion of perpetual movement, reflected through movements of the wearer.
Naomi Mcintosh
UK
Naomi Mcintosh creates jewellery with a focus on form, clean lines and with a strong attention to detail. She works with materials that allow the intricate nature of the work to be visible.
Inspiration for the pieces comes from a fascination with rock formations as well as the contours of the body. Construction, architectural methodologies and drawing conventions have also contributed to this unusual way of working.
Emmeline Hastings
UK
Emmeline Hastings is inspired by the visualisation of sound waves, music and correlating natural phenomena. Her jewellery holds moments of ‘resonance’ captured in static forms of Perspex, stainless steel, titanium and precious metals. They are tactile, one-off pieces that play with optical effect to create an illusion of movement and fluidity. Emmeline explores how many elements brought together can create energetic surfaces and forms. This relates to her interest in the molecular structures of our surroundings and the energy that vibrates and maintains them.
Polly Wales
UK
Polly Wales' jewellery is produced using lost wax casting techniques, casting stones directly in with the wax. The methods involved make every piece different. These she then either casts as they are, or splices them together to construct three dimensional forms, with stones set inside and out, part exposed and part buried like archaeological treasures, or geodes split open.
Maud Traon
UK, Born France
Maud Traon graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007. Her work explores issues of preciousness, value, durability and wearability. She embeds found objects such as plastic toys into carefully carved fimo clay and embellshes these creations further with glitter, jewels and other finds.
Michael Berger
Germany
Michael Berger creates Kinetic Jewellery from precious metals and precious and semi- precious stones. Kinetic jewelry enhances the design of jewellery by a fourth dimension: movement. Individual elements can rotate, be turned or can swing, inspired by the kinetic energy of the body. Due to the many years of working for and assisting Friedrich Becker, the inventor of kinetic jewellery, the fascination of this extraordinary form of jewellery took hold of Michael Berger too.
Michihiro Sato
Japan
Michihiro Sato is based in Japan. He creates exquisite, finely crafted jewellery from paper that explores notions of fagility. Each piece is lovingly carved from recycled paper and carefully coloured and made into rings, brooches or pendants. The forms are reminiscent of seeds or buds. He has exhibited internationally..
Wendy Ramshaw CBE RDI
UK
Wendy Ramshaw was born in Sunderland (UK) in 1939. Now she lives and works in London. Between 1956 and 1960 she studied illustration and fabric design at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design. Then, in 1960-1961, she studied at Reading university. In 1999 she became an honorary fellow of the London Institute, and was also elected RDI (Royal Designer for Industry). In 2003 she was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to art.
Karola Torkos
UK
Karola Torkos graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006. These colourful and affordable 'Fools Gold' necklaces (pictured)are made of polypropylene, plastic beads and cotton thread and start at £141.
Jed Green
UK
Jed Green designs and makes jewellery using glass in combination with other materials such as silver, wood and pearls.
Jo Hayes-Ward
UK
Jo Hayes-Ward creates intricate geometric and sculptural jewellery with an architectural aesthetic. Each piece is made from small building block elements in various precious metals. She uses cutting edge rapid prototyping technology alongside traditional jewellery techniques to create these complex and precise forms.
Jacqueline Cullen
UK
Whitby jet is a prehistoric black fossilised wood most commonly associated with Victorian mourning jewellery; contemporary jeweller Jacqueline Cullen is committed to introducing this ancient and sensual material to a contemporary audience. She hand-build collars and pendants by pegging and joining small sections of Whitby jet lined with 24ct gold. Rings and earrings are studded with glittering Schwarovski crystals, emphasising the natural qualities of the material.
Min-Ji Cho
UK
By creating jewellery using rubber gloves, Min-Ji Cho aims to explore the meaning of real material value in the aesthetics of today. These earrings (pictured) are available in various colours and are £70.
Joel Degen
UK
Joel Degen works with the metal titanium. Without the aid of traditional jewellery techniques such as soldering he joins the sections of the piece together with 18ct gold rivets. The rings (pictured) are anodised titanium, stainless steel and 18ct gold and have a distinctive engineered feel.
Nora Fok
UK
Nora Fok was one of five artists shortlisted for the 2007 Jerwood Prize for Jewellery. She creates intricate yet bold jewellery with an ethereal quality. Her Physalis earrings (pictured) are made from real Physalis shells combined with finely knitted and dyed nylon monofilament.
Salome Lippuner
Switzerland
Salome is a Swiss jewellery artist working with traditional Japanese Urushi lacquer. She works with this luscious and sensual material to create dramatic and highly collectable jewellery.
