The Contemporary Jewellery Exchange 2014

I have recently taken part in The Jewelry Exchange 2014 exhibition, created by Olga Raben, with 370 artists, world wide, where each person was paired with another artist and tasked to create a contemporary piece of jewellery for each other.

I was paired with Kristen Albrecht, a designer maker, based in the USA. We each created a necklace using a variety of techniques and this is how it turned out...

Jewellery exchange between Stephanie Orman and Kristen Albrecht.

Page from the book The Contemporary Jewellery Exchange 2014 featuring Stephanie Orman and Kristen Albrecht. 

It was a great experience being part of this international expression of creativity and seeing how different everyone's interpretation turned out.

Kristen's piece was made from steel and silver, gaining inspiration from the wide use of steel in the workshop in tool form and transforming this into a piece of jewellery. I particularly like the use of movement within the piece.

Below is a photograph of what I created for The Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition 2014. I used a mixture of materials to create the piece including glazed porcelain, silver, copper and enamel.

Contemporary Necklace designed and made by Stephanie Orman
Glazed porcelain, silver, copper and enamel.

I really love how this piece was formed. I used inspiration from the street environment around me and found myself interested in the grids on the pavements and roads that we walk over every day. I combined this with the organic, natural environment such as seeds and pods that can be found everywhere. Sometimes the man-made grids had even been taken over by natural organic growth, and hence the jewellery collection started.

If you would like a piece of unique contemporary jewellery made for you then please get in contact by visiting the facebook page Stephanie Orman Jewellery and send a private message.

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