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The mythologies that have moved Joy BC to tears Blood, sweat and tears go into Joy Bonfield-Colombara’s jewellery — literally. “Sometimes I nip the edges of my hands [and] I get blood on the pieces because it’s a very physical labour of love,” says the Italian-British goldsmith, known as Joy BC. “Tears, both of joy and exhaustion, and relief and pleasure, and sweat because of the physical labour.” She has chosen the saying as the title for an 18-carat yellow gold ring, her first self-referential piece. It features part of a face, the chin of which bears the scar on her own, and an unheated natural Mozambique ruby tear. The jewel is one of six new works among the more than 20 pieces that form the artist’s first UK solo exhibition, Between Ruin and Root, at Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery in London until November 10. Written by Kate Youde Published on 2 of October 2026 Read full article here 

Joy BC’s First Solo Show In London: Tears, Seeds And Greek Goddesses After major shows in New York and Hong Kong, Between Ruin and Root, a retrospective of the work of jewelry artist Joy Bonfield-Colombara (Joy BC) opens this evening, at Elisabetta Cipriaini Gallery in London. More than 20 works will be on a show, including six new pieces commissioned for the exhibition to reflect the Italian-British goldsmith’s exploration of mythology, materiality and transformation during the first ten years of her career. By Kate Matthams, Published on Sep 29, 2026, Read full article   

Joy BC – Blood, Sweat and Tears Joy Bonfield-Colombara is a storyteller and an old soul. Her jewellery is talismanic, commemorative, celebratory, contemplative and emotional. In faces, eyes and ears, Joy finds the affinities that exist between ancient stories and contemporary life. Written by Sophie Morris Read full article here 

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is delighted to present Into the Heart of the Moon, a special evening celebrating the launch of The Calabash, a new series of wearable sculptures by London-based jewellery designer Satta Matturi. Exclusively showcasing for the first time at the gallery, the series transforms one of Africa’s oldest and symbolic objects into contemporary wearable art, celebrating the values that continue to unite us across cultures. The calabash is derived from the gourd fruit, one of humanity’s oldest cultivated plants.For centuries it has served as a vessel for food and water, a musical instrument and an object used in ceremonies and rituals. Beyond its practical function, its spherical shape is believed to be a symbol of the universe reaffirming its global importance of bringing balance, wisdom and protection to humanity and the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. The Calabash series debuts with seven unique wearable sculptures: a convertible pendant that can also be worn as a brooch, three rings, a jabot pin, a pair of earrings and an additional ring from the gallery’s collection. Materiality is intentionally explored with various mediums such as gold, wood, bronze and aluminium, making each sculptural piece organic with the […]

The Language of Art Jewellery at Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery Art jewels carry within them a powerful message: “I am myself.” Nowhere is this sentiment more vividly expressed than at Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery in London, where visitors are immersed in a world of extraordinary contemporary art jewellery from the very first moment. By Nikoleta Tsiama Posted on 5 May 2026 Read full article

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery presents Liens d’Amour, the final piece created by Sophia Vari, opening on 20 May 2026, three years after the artist’s passing. The exhibition celebrates Vari’s legacy through her last wearable sculpture, conceived shortly before her death. Completed in 2023, Liens d’Amour is a necklace made of ebony, 18kt yellow gold, and vivid orange-red coral. Produced in an edition of three, plus two artist’s proofs, the work encapsulates the sculptural vocabulary that defined Vari’s career, translated into a portable form that maintains the ambition, material presence, and formal integrity of her large-scale sculptures. One of the most technically complex works Vari ever realised, Liens d’Amour required over six months of development to achieve controlled mobility. Its sophisticated construction allows the wearable sculpture to move fluidly on the body, reflecting her lifelong exploration of balance, gravity, and motion. For the first time, the exhibition presents the complete creative process behind the work, including the plastiline prototype modelled by Vari shortly before she was hospitalised, alongside her original drawings and maquettes. These materials offer rare insight into her working process and artistic discipline during the final phase of her life. Departing from her customary references to mythology, Greek dances, and islands, Vari titled this final […]

  Cosmic Jewelry by Sheila Hicks Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is honoured to unveil Cosmic Jewelry during the opening of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia at the Monaco & Grand Canal Hotel in Venice (6–10 May 2026). Marking the first collection of unique jewellery by Sheila Hicks, who for over seven decades has conducted fibre into a language of emotion, tension, and living colour. Throughout her career, Hicks has treated thread as architecture and colour as structure. Her works, whether monumental installations or intimate compositions, breathe with an internal rhythm: soft yet disciplined, spontaneous yet precise. In her hands, fibre becomes both material and metaphor. Conceived over two years through a close dialogue between the artist, Atelier L & L (Louise Zanartu & Louis Boudart), and Elisabetta Cipriani, the collection brings together one-of-a-kind pendants and brooches in gold and silver, where silk, cotton and linen entwine with pearls, minerals, stones, and fragments of precious metal. These adornments carry the joyous, chromatic intensity and tactile immediacy of larger sculptures, while enhancing their intimate, sensual essence. Cosmic Jewellery draws inspiration from two central forms in Hicks’ practice: the sculptural Boules and the intimate Minimes. The Boules, spheres composed of threads wrapped around a core often formed from garments once belonging […]

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is pleased to present The First Encounter, opening on Wednesday 25th February from 6–8 PM, a group exhibition bringing together 35 contemporary artists in a focused exploration of one of the most ancient and immediate gestures of adornment: wearing something close to the face. Earrings are perhaps the most relational form of jewelry. They do not inhabit the body silently or discreetly — they move, reflect light, respond to expression, and participate in conversation. Existing in constant dialogue with the face, the gaze, and the presence of the wearer, they are often the first jewel perceived when meeting someone — a detail that becomes language. For more than 4,000 years, earrings have traversed cultures and civilizations as symbols of protection, power, identity, and belonging. Positioned close to the eyes and the voice, they occupy a uniquely communicative space between object and expression. In today’s world — shaped by images, screens, and visual communication — this dimension is amplified. The face has returned to the center of daily experience, and with it, earrings regain renewed expressive urgency. They are immediate, intimate, and personal — capable of transforming presence through a minimal yet powerful gesture. The First Encounter assembles […]

Elisabetta Cipriani on Artist Jewellery as Wearable Art and Collectible Design At Teatro Palladio, Elisabetta Cipriani took part in Coded Couture – Jewelry as Cultural Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, an event organised by Trendvision Jewellery + Forecasting. Invited to speak on the role of jewelry in contemporary culture, Cipriani was tasked with presenting artist jewellery as a field of artistic, conceptual, and craft experimentation—one that today sits firmly within the realm of wearable art and collectible design. Drawing on over fifteen years of curatorial practice at her eponymous London gallery, founded in 2009, Elisabetta Cipriani articulated a vision in which jewelry transcends adornment to become a form of visual art. Italian by birth and British by adoption, she has consistently invited internationally renowned contemporary artists to create projects that explore the body as a site of meaning, transformation, and intimacy. “The jewelry I present tells a story—an idea, a connection between the artist and the material. The intention is to communicate the value of creations that are expressions of visual art, to be appreciated as much as a sculpture or a painting.” During her talk, Cipriani traced the evolution of artist jewellery from experimental studio practice to […]

Vicenzaoro Highlights, January 2026: The Vision of Elisabetta Cipriani Jewellery as a space of artistic freedom. During the event Coded Couture – Jewellery as Cultural Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Elisabetta Cipriani explored the most radical dimension of contemporary jewellery Published Saturday, 17 January 2026, By BY VO+ MAGAZINE Read full article