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Jewelry has the uniqueness that other three-dimensional art works do not have.
It is the fact that jewelry in other words “body ornament” is literally something that is worn on human bodies.
It is closest to yourself and attached directly to your skin.
Around your spirit are your body, jewelry, clothes, and then the outer world of social environment and nature.
Jewelry exists as if it is an switchboard positioned between the inside and outside of yourself.
It could also be said that we communicate with others, nature and society, and transmit our own identities through jewelry.
I hope that these pieces lead you to reconsider the preciousness of the nature.

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• 1980Superior prize at Japan Craft Exhibition , Japan
• 1989Tansuioh Prize at Satoh Faundation, Japan

Based in Melbourne Australia, inSync design is an award-winning studio where graphic design meets contemporary jewellery.

Led by Iris Saar Isaacs, inSync transforms line drawings into wearable art in the form of brooches, bangles, earrings and necklaces.
Iris’ exploration of shape and colour results in a minimalist, contemporary and distinct range of jewellery synonymous with clever resolution and high-quality construction.
All pieces combine industrial materials and processes with traditional hand-craft techniques.


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• 2001Cancer Council of Victoria, President’s Award
• 2004Third finalist - Celebrating Melbourne Award
• 2007‘New under the sun’, Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony III, Jewish Museum of Australia
• 2007Memento Australia Award
• 2010Faces of Design Award, Berlin
• 2010Melbourne Design Award
• 2011Shortlisted - Australian International Design Award

Phytophilia
My new work is called “Phytophilia” which means “love for plants”.
The inspiration is drawn from the miracle of life, the cycle of growth, bloom and decay and the imagination to turn through my jewelry bodies or hands into small landscapes and gardens.
The pieces are modelled in wax an I explore the potential of the material, by kneading, dripping, fusing and melting. The wax models are then converted into metal by the technique of “lost wax casting“, so all the pieces are unique and the mold they were casted in will be lost for ever.
Since 2011 I work with fair trade gold, silver and gemstones because protecting the environment, fair trade and sustainability are topics to me and my concept of jewelry making.

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• 2008“Intimacy”, New Traditional Jewelry, Sieraad, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2009“Lucca Preziosa Young”, Le Arti Orafe, Florence, Italy
• 2009“Out of the Box”, First Prize of Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea

ANIMAL THEME
Representatives of certain animal species.
The expectations, generalizations, beliefs and symbolism around animal themes.
I observe how animals were positioned in ancient cultures and especially how they still have such a powerful part in our everyday surroundings. They are connected also to many industrial materials. I try to give back their animal powers which the toy makers often try to hide, bring down or deny altogether. I never make them tell only stories about people, without telling their own story at the same time.
METHOD
Life is just a beautiful game with quite sad and paradoxical structure.
Something very huge is composed of super small particles. To find the balance and the ways how it alters. Things which we can never fully understand, because it is unnecessary.
To choose.
Adapt yourself and survive. For the time which is so relative.
About the surprises, changes. During some tiny tiny moments which proved to be meaningful afterwards. I just try to describe.
Animals called people.
MATERIALS
Stones. Glass. Glass is something which looks in the end super cold material, but has needed enormous amount of warmth along the way of being manufactured.
It needs to be handled with the greatest care, or it may easily harm you.
DEFINITIONS
a jewellery sculpture = a sculpture which tells about jewelry.

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• 2001The International Contest for Jewellery With Amber Design, second prize, Gdansk, Poland
• 2005Prize for young artist, Arts Council of Southeast Finland

I rather find beauty and wonder in materials formed in nature than in artificial materials.
I am also inspired by colors which I used to since childhood.
I hope both people who wear and the surrounding people who see would enjoy my work.

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To re-know oneself (about the body)
The fragility and strength of my body. The perception of hurt.
Gestures and pained feelings take body, solid form.
I make real those spaces in order to encapsulate those gestures, and to heal.
I use bandage and plaster as would a doctor.
I use the weakness of the material, and at the same time it’s firmness, to show how they protect and usually put things back right, to correct or to arrange.
Shell pieces, cured pieces.

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Stephanie Simek has been experimenting with a number of unconventional materials and forms in the context of body adornment for the past three years.
The pieces in her line of “wearables” are the discoveries of this exploration.
Her collection can be found in publications, boutiques, and museum shops throughout the world.
In addition to this work, Stephanie also creates multimedia sound and visual projects, which she performs and exhibits regularly.
Originally from New Jersey, USA, where she studied visual art at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Stephanie currently lives on the west coast in Portland, Oregon.

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The brand name “juju” came from “juzu tsunagi” which means connecting different countries, and connecting people.
I make jewelry thinking I want to revive and give new life to “things” that came across various countries and people.

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• 1984Objects exhibition in Japan
• 1985Objects exhibition in Japan

I usually use daily necessities as materials.
However, I don’t intend to create　daily necessities which already exists.
I would like to present daily life and behaviors of people through creating jewelries.
That would be like a bird watching down life of people or an alien from a far planet.

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• 2009BKV Prize 2009 for Young Applied Arts - Grand Prize
• 2010Japan Jewelry Art Competition 2010

Jewelry about the interaction between man and nature.
Shaping the classical French gardens or forestry leave marks in nature, the shapes of trees and landscapes change. Then again the nature will renew itself, moss or mushrooms appear as soon as there is a chance. In my work I’m observing this symbiosis between man and nature. At their best they adapt to each other and make a beautiful match.
I play with contrasts like valuable against worthless, mathematical against free and associative. Also in my choice of materials I am searching for the borders between natural and artificial. For example in the series “Woodland” (2007) I combine my own designed “nature” with branches of birch, hazel, rosemary, and heather, as well as gemstones such as smoky quartz and aquamarine.
My work is inspired by love for the beauty in nature, and its strength comes from the necessity to visualise this beauty.

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• 2007Highly Commended, The Dutch Design Awards, NL
• 2000Nomination Kunst aanmoedigingsprijs Amstelveen-prize, NL
• 1997Nomination Gerrit Rietveld Academie-prize, NL

　 Dialog with materials gives me the opportunity to think about myself.
When the pieces are handed to the others, the new dialog occurs between makers and this person.
That is the pleasure of the creations.

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• 2010mineral ART Competition, 2nd prize

I am handling the work with the motif of the flowering plant of nature.
I’d like to project the beauty of nature and the strongness of nature onto it.

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• 2008“Accepted” by Tableware Festival 2008 at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• 2009“Accepted” by Tableware Festival 2009 at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• 2010“Accepted” by Japan Jewelry Art Competition 2010

To the inside of a present-day life
I express the jewelry of the present style using the technique of the metal craft of Japan.
I make the beauty and presence of this jewelry permeate the present age, and express the image of Japanese culture.

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• 2005prize of School principal in Hiko Mizuno college of jewelry Graduation Wroks
• 2006prize of New figure excellent in JJA jewellery design awards 2006
• 2008prize of under 26 award in Japan Jewelry Art Competition
• 2009Itami International Craft Exhibition “Jewelry”
• 2010Japan Jewelry Art Competition

“The material textile is essential in my works. Textile reveals emotions which are strongly connected to my own life and the human body itself. In my pieces I use textile in a direct way or I communicate the idea of its versatile language throughout another material.”
This feminine material which carries feelings of security is strongly alive.
When it comes in relation to the human body they affect themselves and are shaped by this interrelation. Textile and metal folds which are draped around our body express and shape our inner surface.
“These folds communicate the inner strength of a person. They turn the human body around to emphasis their inside.”

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If an everyday object is reconsidered, its beauty and potential becomes evident.
Upon recognition of its value the ordinary can become precious.

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• 2000Julian Ashton Art School Scholarship, Sydney, Australia
• 2006Craft-in-Site grant, Object Galleries, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, Australia
• 2007Janet Holmes a Court Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Australia
• 2007Third prize, Jewel in the City, Ars Ornata Europeana, Manchester Craft and Design Centre, England

I aim at making products that surprise people’s heart and make the attachment.
These works were made from the theme “to insert a vivid solid to a plane world of black and white”.

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I am interested in the shape that an elastic cloth made when it wrap something.
It is vaguely appeared though it was wrapped in the inside. But it catch my eyes, and imagines the thing wrapped inside.

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• 2004Japan jewelry art exhibition, prize for fine work

I love patterns, simple and complicated ones,
to combine them and put them on top of each other so new ones will appear.
When I was a child I used to lie on my bed looking at the rose-patterned wallpaper,
making my eyes go in and out of focus like a camera-lens.
I still do that when I make my jewellery and the result is something that is always very sharp combined with something blurred.

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My passion for creating jewelry led me from Taiwan through New York to finally live and work in Finland.
The calm and beautiful Finnish nature provides me the perfect environment for creative works.
Inspired by the plants and flowers in our daily surroundings, I want to create elegant jewelry, which captures the gestures and liveliness of the nature.
For my unique works I often use anticlastic forming, because this technique allows me to achieve light-weighted and three-dimensional forms.
My jewelry has a very strong sculptural quality.

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• 20014th Prize of “2001 International Pearl Design Contest”, Japan Cultured Pearl Retailers Association, Japan Tour exhibition in Japan
• 2002Excellence Award in “Dream of the Crafts” craft design competition, Taiwan
• 20053rd Prize in cut stone article and special prize for the use of cut stones in the Faberge 2005 international competition for young jewelers, Finland

Born and raised in the Finnish countryside, Eero loves the nature and simple Scandinavian way of living.
He also enjoys visiting big metropolises around the world.
Eero combines these two strong influences- the wild imagination from his childhood and the contemporary urban culture- to create jewelry which often has a touch of humor.

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I roll, roll and roll …
I hope my work will bring pleasure to people in the world.
It’s all of my works.

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• 2009Schmuck 2009, Munich, Germany, (Contemporary Jewelry Award)
• 2009BKV-Prize2009, Munich, Germany, (Young Applied Arts Award)

The thing that is casual but is actually important as a part of someone.
The thing indispensable when noticing.
I wish what calyx makes has such an atomosphere.
The thing that can be changed by people wearing it, and has a small story.
I am making such the things.

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From the start till now, I’ve been consistently using glass as a medium for my works because I deeply believe in the potential of glass.
Glass is such an impressionable material that enables me to form exactly what I image.
However, handling glass in the flame into a wished form needs a skillful touch in every moment.
Acquiring such craftsman skill excites me and this could be the reason why I am enthusiastic about glass.
When I was an art student, I was inspired by the insolite (“unusual” in French) aesthetics and started to work with glass.
Motifs of the insolite aesthetics may be grotesque and yet beautiful, and I think such ambiguity fascinates us.
About my glass works, I carefully choose my own insolite motifs from my daily life.
Wearing jewelries is an act to transform you into a unique art.
When you take and put my glass works on you, I hope they will be sublimed with your sensibility, then become a unique art.

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My aim is to create “Playful beauty” which has a strong impact with an eccentricity that express kitsch, elegant, delicate yet strong within the jewellery form.

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• 2006Diana Morgan Second Prize, RMIT Post Graduate Show, Melbourne
• 2006Marzee Prize, Marzee International Graduate Exhibition, the Netherlands

I want to make a trigger : the trigger that enables people to encounter each other, the trigger that makes people aware of a certain situation.
Crying, eating, the things surrounding us in our life, the things which we might pass by without being aware of their existence ……..
We are repeating the same cycle unconsciously.
I do not think that I can have a big influence on the society.
But I hope I can serve a small trigger for you through my work.

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• 2007ZOKEI award to best sculpture in 2007, Tokyo ZOKEI University
• 2010The winner of TALENTE 2010, Munich

The motif of my jewelry work is, Beauty of Nature.
Their materials are mostly silver, copper, and brass.
I always try to work on and jewelry-make these natural treasures affectionately.

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• 2001Itami International Craft Exhibition Theme “JEWELLRY” Itami Prize
• 2004Itami International Craft Exhibition Theme “Shuki/Shuhaidai” Osaka craft park Prize

“Beauty might be seen as vain, but I find it interesting to contrast beauty with the unpleasant, serious and not so nice.
The sad and disgusting can also be something beautiful.
I use beauty to get the viewers attention, but there is so much more that I would like to convey other than beauty.
Human weaknesses and underlying defense mechanisms are often themes that recur in my work.
I try to keep an open attitude to methods and materials as I find my way to new techniques, combinations and approaches, but simultaneously always strongly rooted to the past”.

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• 2009So Fresh Award Talent winner Pierre Lang, Vienna, Austria
• 20082nd prize (audience vote) “Annual International Graduation Show” MIDORA fair, Leipzig, Germany
• 2008“Marzee International Graduation Show prize” Holland
• 2005“Marzee International Graduation Show prize” Holland
• 2005“Ädelaward” Sweden

I did not like jewellery.
However, I think I like it now.
I want to make jewellery with beauty and witty that connects a viewer, wearer and me.

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• 2007MoDA London
• 2007Group exhibition “ExhibitionN0.1” Pineal Eye London
• 2007Ars Ornata Europeana Student Competition
• 2007Group exhibition “Hide Out” Red Gate Gallery London
• 2009“MADE” The 24th New Designers London
• 2009Group exhibition “Babel” Blackall Studios London

Melinda Young has participated in over 80 exhibitions and her practice spans exhibition work and a limited edition production range. She makes all of her pieces by hand and revels in the individuality and idiosyncratic edge that the hand brings to bear upon her work.
Her surroundings provide continual inspiration and materials for her work, from the things she finds on the ground to architecture, the landscape and the social condition of the body. She loves colour and frequently plays with a monochromatic palette in her works.
Recently she has been working on a project titled 「Take a ball of thread…」exploring the wearable potential of a large industrial spool of pink cotton thread.
The works made as part of this project are documented in a blog established to chart its progress (http://pinkthreadjewels.blogspot.com) and have been exhibited around Australia.

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I hope that my jewelry would connect the artist to the person wearing the piece as well as people observing the piece.

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• 199725th International pearl design contest Japan
• 1998the International young fashion designers competition (Concours international des jeunes créateurs de mode)
• 199816th Asahi modern craft exhibition Japan

I find the door to the creative world from the familiar things in my daily life.
The doors are opening in the glass, on the face of the dog passing by my side, in a crying baby’s voice, in the open window and on my face in the mirror.
The place inside of these doors is very deep and I feel the existence of a parallel world here.

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• 2008Out of the shell - recontextualizing the pearl in contemporary jewelry USA
• 200810th of ALCHIMIA - Exhibition at Goldschmiedehause in Hanau Germany
• 2006Schmuck 2006 Germany
• 2006Schmuck 2006 in Museum of Arts and Design New York USA
• 2006Connect - gallery FUNAKI international jewellery award 2006 Australia
• 2006Transfiguration - Japanese Art Jewelry Today The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo Japan
• 2005Contemporary Jewellery from Japan Object gallery Australia
• 2005Fool’s Gold The Embassy gallery Scotland

　I used to make a jewelry using plastic plates and something close to me which I played with in childhood.
Recently,I face various materials, such as a pearl and pottery, and I am continuing making a work until a material is convinced in the form.
Although there is no rule in particular when making a work, I hope I can make many works which makes someone think “cool”.　　

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• 2006prize of Japan Jewelry Art Competition
• 2008prize of Japan Jewelry Art Competition
• 2009prize of Asahi gendai craft exhibition

My concept is “wearable junk antique”.
I’m trying to make the work with the presence which became old in aging processing by using industrial parts and junk antique parts.
Wearing the part which passed through the hand of various place, time, and people as an icon.
Please enjoy not only as accessories but also the story which the part has.

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• 2007nagaya shop mitta

I try to always keep an open mind to absorb what is happening around me and process it in my mind and use it for inspiration. It can be a charming piece of music or the way a branch move in the wind.
I can use a horrible catastrophe and mutate it into a beautiful story, use the history and twist and bend it into a new reality, my reality.
This world of my mind seems endless from time to time, but it needs to be inspired from the world outside to be able to exist.

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• 2005”Here and now” Hällefors Folk highschool
• 2006”Only Colour” Gothenburg art museum
• 2007”Myrorna” collaboration and exhibit in Gothenburg
• 2007Sintra Gothenburg
• 2007”Lovesigns” Platina Stockholm
• 2007“NK loves HDK” Gothenburg
• 2007”Hnoss exstended” Gothenburg
• 2008”Editions ‘07” The Röhsska museum Gothenburg
• 2008“Graduation show” Gallery hnoss Gothenburg
• 2008“Self-portraits” Escola massana Barcelona
• 2008“Eyoyat 08” La Basilica Barcelona
• 2008“Blicka bakåt…se in I framtiden” 316kubik Hudiksvall

My jewelry has no rules.
I always change materials with my moment feeling.
They are resin, metal, spices…
At the moment, I use resin the most.
I hope you enjoy the pattern of new materials.

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• 2005Gallery concel Shibuya
• 2006Gallery OONA Berlin
• 2007The Museum of Art&Crafts-ITAMI
• 2008LAPIN ET HALOT Aoyama

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• 2007 Itami International Craft Exhibition

Somebody once told me,”You make jewellery for children, not for adults”.
And when I was a student in Tokyo the Japanese students in my class came up with a new word to describe my work.
The word was KimoKawaii and it’s a combination of two words kawaii (cute) and kimoi (disgusting).
I make jewellery for adults but with a touch of inspiration from my childhood.
When I was a child I played with stuffed animals, slugs and other living animals.
I have always been drawn to both biology and art and in my work I am trying to combine my interests. Nature is a great source of inspiration but so is Pokemon…

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The ephemeral nature of life is both beautiful and liberating and stands in contrast to my preferred working materials.
Impermanence expressed in metal and whatever else that is necessary to achieve my requirements.
Each piece I produce is part of a complex equation of expression, emotion and random material behaviour. These components at different levels are a constant presence in my workshop.
Conventional goldsmithing techniques in conjunction with an unconventional mixture of materials calls for an “inquisitive problem solving” attitude at the workbench.
This in turn opens new vistas of form and expression to be examined.
The challenge lies in incorporating enough of myself into this equation order to direct but not dictate the results.

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• 1999International Craft Exhibition
• 2000Urban Ascetism- Röhsska Museum
• 2001Bergen and Gallery RAM
• 2002Solo Olle Olsson-huset
• 2003SOFA; Chicago
• 2004Silver Trienal
• 2005”Swedish Style”
• 2006“Love Signs”
• 2007Solo “Views of Order” Gallery Platina
• 2008 ”Collect” Victoria and Albert Museum

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• 1999Excellence Award
• 1999Åhléns Award for Design & Form
• 2008MADE BY: nominated for DESIGNU award

my idea comes from…….
Any thing hides a good form. I am making my pieces by the work of cutting off plastic goods.
Any object by being pieced can become wearable.
Things previously without connection to the body can become wearable to it by this simple operation.
goods change like this.
A lot of goods are comparatively near the body with having them in the hand.
But the distance with the body didn’t approach any further.
Such goods become like these.
I love to look for the goods for my pieces and make new forms out of objects used everyday.
It is happy to me if you could enjoy such a point of view when you saw my pieces.
Now,I have a pen with my hand.but when we see it the next time,it may be a neckchains!

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• 2008 Out of shell:recontextualizing the pearl in contemporary jewelry
• 2008TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FORUM
• 2007space for your future - museum of contemporary art Tokyo
• 2007docomodake art exhibition
• 2007re-create
• 2007SCHMUCK’07
• 2006“”"JEWELRY HEROES”"” OONA
• 2006gallery duex poisson

The thing by which it is full of personal appearance, the thing thrown away as garbage, and things as daily necessaries to be used, such as a social phenomenon and a natural product…
How can I make these materials a jewelry?
I think on the theme of such a thing every day.

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• 2002 The Ueno Royal Museum
• 2002 LAPIN ET HALOT
• 2003 Aoyama Spiral
• 2003 The Museum of Art&Crafts-ITAMI
• 2004 Art Space Ryabina
• 2005 The Museum of Art&Crafts-ITAMI
• 2005 Gallery deux poissons
• 2006 Gallery Le Deco
• 2006 Gallery Revuri
• 2006 Round Exhibition / Culture Life Information Center SETAGAYA

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• 2002Prize in Japan Jewelry Art Competition
• 2003Prize of umpire in Itami International Craft Exhibition Jewelry
• 2006Prize of in Itami international Craft Exhibition drink vessel

I’m trying to take various motifs from nature and man-made when I design jewelry.
I’m making jewelry with enjoying how I express the inspiration I received at that time by my way.
I think about the concept and the design so that people who wear the work may become happy even a little feelings.

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• 2004Harry Winston prize of Graduate Exhibition
• 2006prize of Japan Jewelry Art Competition

The detailed texture of my jewelry is made by working on wax which is like candle wax. The fine figures are made one by one by hand.

I almost stop breathing while making because the delicate balance in the small world is the key. The textures that are born in the particular condition of the wax according to the temperature of the room of that time get together and shape my jewelry. Every piece with natural stones is an only one piece in the world because the settings are made according to the shape of the particular stones.

I carve the patterns on the pearls by hand. The little ones with faces are big eaters. You’d better watch out for them, otherwise they eats up all the sweets!

I will be glad if my mysterious jewelry becomes a tool for amusing communication between the wearer and somebody else.

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• 2004Gallery Wada Aoyama
• 2005Galerie Sofie Lachat Belgium
• 2005Arai Atelier Gallery Ebisu
• 2007hygge gallery Nakameguro

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• 2005Bronze prize of Design 30th International pearl design contest