Box of Dreams Pop-up Exhibition

Ane Christensen is an artist and maker working in metal, with a practice spanning over 25 years. Originally from Denmark, she completed an MA (metalwork & jewellery) at the Royal College of Art before establishing her studio in 1999. Strongly influenced by her Scandinavian roots, the theme of presence and absence of light runs through all her work. Parallel recurring inspirations are the urban landscape, optical illusion and negative space. All Ane’s work begins with the simple geometry of cylinders, bowl forms and flat sheet. She often works with metal rods and wire, used like three-dimensional line drawing to frame space and disrupt the density of her material.

Her work is held in museum collections including V&A, the Goldsmiths’ Company Collection and the Crafts Council Collection. Ane lives and works in East London.

Caitlin Murphy is an award-winning Northern Irish maker. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2022 before completing two years at Bishopsland Educational Trust, where she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Emerging Maker Scholarship. She later returned to Glasgow to undertake a year-long artist residency at Glasgow School of Art. Now, she runs her practice full-time. Her work is centred on precision and accuracy, folding and weaving metal as though it were paper. Originating during the pandemic through the use of paper, her practice has since evolved to incorporate precious materials including 18-carat gold. Most recently, she was commissioned by the Goldsmiths’ Company to create an 18-carat yellow gold and niobium woven box. Caitlin’s work challenges the boundaries of silversmithing and jewellery, existing across wall, table, and body, and uses refractive metals such as niobium to introduce colour, texture, and pattern.

Artist Jeweller, Ella Fearon-Low, plunders the visual larder of the past to create delicious contemporary treasures in mixed materials. Ella has a particular passion for making contemporary brooches and earrings that are playful, grown up and highly wearable. Her careful use of colour, attention to finished textures and strong graphic shapes give Ella’s creations their unique energy.

Influenced by decorative and domestic objects Ella’s original forms are layered from influences as varied as 17th Century glassware, Roman jewellery and Post-modern architectural detailing. Using these starting points, she develops and hand produces one-off sculptural works and small collections of wearable pieces in her SW London studio.

Ella’s art has been exhibited widely at Collect Art Fair, Goldsmiths’ Fair, Munich Jewellery Week and at The Scottish Gallery. Her work has featured in the printed press including in Vogue, The Sunday Times and The Financial Times.

Elsa Tierney is a London-based jeweller and artist, specialising in wax carving and the

Japanese wax sculpting technique mitsuro hikime. Inspired by modern art and historical artefacts, creating sculptural pieces to be exhibited on the body. Her current explorations focus on studies of insects, plants and sea life as displayed in natural history museums, and how they have been interpreted by artists including Lalique and Karl Blossfeldt.

Her style takes inspiration from Impressionism, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau. Figurative forms of the face and body are carved in hard wax, and using the organic nature of mitsuro hikime she allows the material and method to guide the final design, creating one-of-a-kind statement pieces that retain gestures of the artists hand embedded in the wax. Cast in precious metal, her work sits between jewellery and sculpture.

Elsa has authored the book Art of Wax and co-authored Mitsuro Hikime: Japanese Wax Sculpting.

Francisca Onumah is a Ghanaian born silversmith based in Sheffield. Drawn to finding character and a human-like semblance in inanimate objects, Francisca creates ambiguous vessels and jewellery that reflect vulnerabilities and strengths through their anthropomorphic forms. Working from sheet metal, she subtly layers different marks, patterns and textures by repeatedly hammering,fold forming and impressing textile patterns onto the surface of the metal. Her approach to mark making displays a raw tactile signature displayed on sombre anthropomorphic forms. Francisca’s work has been featured in prominent publications including Crafts Magazine, World of Interiors and Goldsmiths Stories. Her work can be found in notable collections at The V&A, Sheffield Museums, The Sheffield Assay Office and The Walker Art Gallery. Francisca graduated from an MA in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University in 2015.

Jed Green’s practice defies categorisation, existing at the dynamic intersection of jewellery, sculpture and object. Her distinctive handmade pieces, crafted from an eclectic palette that includes borosilicate glass, silver, gold, wood, stainless steel, paper, paint, and pearls, blur the boundaries between wearable adornment and sculptural form. They are intimate landscapes—three-dimensional collages that speak of memory, place and the beauty of impermanence. They tell stories of travel, discovery and the emotional treasures gathered along the way.

This series of work began in 2020 during a time of change both in living and working environments. Rediscovering work and old sketchbooks packed away for years ignited a process of reconnection and catalysed a new artistic direction, culminating in Wear / Display—a series of interactive, multifunctional pieces that invite reinterpretation.

Jed has exhibited at Goldsmiths’ Fair and is represented by Ruup & Form at Collect and London Art Fair.

Trained at The Cass, Jo McAllister makes jewellery and objects with spatial simplicity and concept-led narratives. Based on the south coast, she works precious metals with wild stone tools found in the landscape. The intimately land-marked surface textures she creates, highlighted by undulating, hand-burnished edges, are synonymous with her work. Exhibited widely since Galerie Marzee’s 2001 International Graduation Show, her work was shown by Electrum Gallery, the Crafts Council at the V&A, at Munich Jewellery Week with Dialogue Collective, and at MAD in New York. ‘Feathering’ was acquired by the Alice & Louis Koch Collection, Zurich. She’s a member of CAA and the Sussex Guild, and an award-winning, regular exhibitor at Goldsmiths’ Fair, who featured her work at Collect 2023. After an ACJ Conference lecture, she was privileged to be invited as AIR by the prestigious Department of Jewellery and Gemmology, Trier University, Campus Idar-Oberstein, funded by Bengel Foundation.

Inca Starzinsky is a London-based artist and designer. Originally a graphic designer, after graduation from Central St Martins she spent 5 years as artist-in-residence in their printmaking department. A desire to apply her print practice to three-dimensional objects led her to pursue a Masters in Printed Textiles at the Royal College of Art. After graduation from the RCA, she wanted to make work that would incorporate her background and knowledge from graphics, screen printing and textiles. And eventually she settled on jewellery making. And in 2019 she began a three year part-time course at K2 Jewellery Academy in London, which helped her focus on finding a way to realise her designs and love for paint and colour in sculptural forms. Since 2023 Inca designs and makes contemporary jewellery from her studio in East London.

Morvarid Alavifard is an Iranian multidisciplinary and precious metal artist based in the UK, working primarily through silversmithing and precious metal techniques. Her practice is rooted in her lived experience as an Iranian woman and explores how objects carry memory, emotion, and resistance through touch. She approaches metal as both material and language, using traditional processes to question ideas of value, permanence, and control. Central to her work is the belief that destruction can be a form of creation. Through cutting, fracturing, inlaying, and rejoining metal, she translates internal and collective experiences into physical form. By reworking inherited craft techniques, she engages with heritage as something active and evolving. Her work invites close, tactile engagement, allowing viewers to encounter vulnerability, strength, and unspoken narratives held within the material.

Sarah Pulvertaft graduated from Sydney College of the Arts and set up her first workshop in London in 1995. She worked in her Clerkenwell workshop for 10 years before moving to rural Oxfordshire where she continues to make unique and bespoke studio jewellery. She uses traditional techniques, working in silver and gold to create modern and distinctive pieces which usually feature kinetic elements. Fascinated by repeated forms particularly in the natural world and by the meditative quality of a mass of similar elements and their movement, for example a field of crops or the boughs of trees, Sarah uses repeated and articulating elements to create gently undulating surfaces and unusual, sometimes unruly forms. The meditative quality of walking through and around fields and woods, the repetition involved in the making process and the subtly shifting surfaces of her pieces synthesize in Sarah’s kinetic works.