An exhibition co-curated by Dr Elizabeth Goring and Gregory Parsons at Ruthin

Designer-made, one-of-a kind jewellery is very much having a moment. As curators with long experience in this area, we believe it’s attained an exciting level of excellence: something of a Golden Age, worthy of celebration.

We are seeing breathtaking technical skills, exciting materials experimentation, and innovative processes and concepts. These qualities are particularly striking at a time of adverse economic challenges, grave environmental concerns and devastating cuts to skills-based education.

Jewellery Now: the curators’ edit will illustrate the range of materials and processes jewellers are using today, as well as the ethical and environmental concerns so strongly influencing current practice. We’ve selected around 50 highly accomplished and interesting jewellers from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, working at a range of levels from the most experienced to those making exceptional work in the early stages of their careers.

Gallery 1   features the extraordinary range of materials and processes jewellers are using in their current practice. Their creativity and skill are particularly striking at a time of adverse economic challenges and devastating cuts to skills-based education. Their work owes much to the legacy of pioneering makers working from the 1960s onwards.

Gallery 2   shines a spotlight on some of those in the vanguard of breaking down traditional constraints and challenging perceptions of what jewellery could be. Consummate makers, several have also been educators, passing on their skills and insights to younger generations.

Exhibitors: 
Huimin Zhang
Yen (Duong)
Emma Louise Wilson
Eleanor Whitworth
David Watkins
Samuel Waterhouse
Jessica Turrell
Iona Turner
Joanne Thompson
Rie Taniguchi
Romilly Saumarez Smith
Castro Smith
Kayo Saito
Pamela Rawnsley
Wendy Ramshaw
Sarah Pulvertaft
David Poston
Jo Pond
Louise O’Neill
Mark Nuell
Poppy Norton
Grainne Morton
John Moore
Jane Moore
Jacqueline Mina
Graeme McColm
Jeremy May
Lindsey Mann
Qiang Li
Ruth Leslie
Gilly Langton
Andrew Lamb
Daphne Krinos
Kumiko Kihara
Dorothy Hogg
Jo Hayes Ward
Faye Hall
Jed Green
Anna Gordon
Lucie Gledhill
Eileen Gatt
Gill Galloway-Whitehead
Alice Fry
Gerda Flöckinger
Ella Fearon-Low
Sian Evans
Alison Evans
Ute Decker
Michelle Currie
Jacqueline Cullen
Susan Cross
Rachael Colley
Kevin Coates
Xinyi Chen
Elizabeth Jane Campbell
(Martin) Cameron & (Laura) Breen
Caroline Broadhead
Heather Blake
Alice Biolo
Evgeniia Balashova
Malcolm Appleby
Jane Adam

 

5 July – 21 September 2025

 Galleries 1 and 2, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1BB, Wales