Journal of Jewellery Research
Sian Hindle researches jewellery and its ecologies, examining—variously—patterns of reciprocity in terms of gifting and wearing jewellery, flows of expertise amongst craft practitioners, as well as the interconnections of manufacturing firms within industrial clusters. Her doctorate explores jewellery and embodied identity. She is academic lead for research in Birmingham City University’s Department of Fashion and Jewellery.
David Huycke is an artist best known for his innovative approach to metalwork and granulation. His work is inspired by cosmic themes and natural phenomena, balancing on the edge of figuration and abstraction. In 2010, he obtained a PhD in the arts with the project ‘The Metamorphic Ornament: Re-Thinking Granulation’. Huycke is professor at the Faculty of Architecture & Arts at Hasselt University and at PXL-MAD School of Arts, where he serves as head of the Object & Jewellery program.
Monica Gaspar is a curator, writer and educator. Her areas of interest include exhibitions as a vehicle for critical discourse, and feminist and decolonial approaches to the relationship between design and craft. Through curating international exhibitions, writing for specialised publications, lecturing, and serving as a jury member and consultant for numerous institutions, she has earned a wide expertise in the field of contemporary jewellery. She is about to start a new position as the curator of the applied arts collection at the Museum für Gestaltung Zurich.
Cristina Filipe (Lisbon, 1965) is a curator, researcher and writer specialising in contemporary jewellery. She holds a PhD in Heritage Studies from the School of Arts of the UCP. She is currently a researcher at CITAR – Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts at the same university. She is the author and editor of several books and essays on contemporary jewellery, including Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal: From the 1960s Avant-Garde to the Early 21st Century (2019), published with the support of the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant from AJF (US, 2017). As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the MAD (NY) she will develop research on contemporary jewellery, curatorial practices (2027).
Liesbeth den Besten is an independent art historian who is working internationally as a writer, advisor, and educator in the field of contemporary jewellery. She has curated several exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. She is the author of On Jewellery, a compendium of international contemporary art jewellery (Arnoldsche 2011), and numerous other titles. She is currently working on a new book about jewellery, with the working title: The Material Evolution of Jewellery, shell beads to e-waste.
Saskia Kolff – van Es (Amsterdam, 1972) is an art historian. She writes about contemporary jewellery. Her fascination: jewellery materials. The tension between their mythical and harmful sides are part of a piece of jewellery.
Saskia teaches jewellery history and theory at Sint Lucas Antwerpen, in Belgium. She was a member of the board of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation.
Nathalie Mornu has worked as an editor for 20+ years, primarily in the field of crafts. Prior to getting a degree in mass communications, she studied furniture making and jewelry fabrication. She has served as Art Jewelry Forum’s managing editor since 2019. She lives in Tuscon, Arizona, in the US, where she embroiders sequins into jewelry, tends her garden, and keeps an eye on her dogs, who have a bad habit of messing with the dangerous wildlife of the Sonoran Desert.
