The extraordinary world of Fred Butler

Fred Butler graduated in Fashion Design from Brighton University in 2003 and specialises in props, although she also designs amazing jewellery.   Recently Lady Gaga wore Fred's blue telephone headpiece in her video with Beyonce 'Telephone on a Piano'.  In 2009 Fred appeared in her first jewellery stockists at a pioneering London jewellery boutique.  If you went to Selfridges Christmas 2009 you would also have seen Fred's props in their window display.  She has worked far and wide and is becoming well known for her quirky originally styling. http://www.fredbutlerstyle.com/cv.swf

Fantastical jewellery

Nora Fok creates amazing pieces of jewellery, from her 'bubble bath' bracelet to Physalis earrings.  She works with delicacy and style, producing unusual and unique pieces which are as light as air.

Marianne Rautureau's Calourette

Marianne Rautureau is a jeweller based in Paris. Her first collection launched in 2007, from an enjoyment of making "small things, small sculptures, creating what I have in mind".
In answer to what her biggest inspirations are for her designs, she replied: "everyday life, humour, spontaneity and bizarre things".

un microclima

Un Microclima live and work in Barcelona, Spain

Florian Ladtstatter

Moto Nakaba

Moto Nakaba is a jeweller and artist based in Tokyo, Japan. His sculptural 'monsters' were recently exhibited in Los Angeles.

Cloud Creator - Philip Tanaka

Above, top row: "sister" ring, cloud ring and unity ring, all silver or oxidized silver (plus one golden nun). Middle row: rings from the "grasp" series allow you to grasp dreams (the star), luck and peace. Bottom row: the "playground" series captures see-saws, spring chairs and a scene from a more adult playground, a golf course - Cloud Creator, Phillip Tanaka, was born in Australia but now resides in Japan.

Kylie Gartside

Kylie Gartside is an Australian jeweller, who studied at Queensland College of Art.
Her home studio is in Woolloongabba in Brisbane, and she sources most of her materials locally - all of the sterling silver in her work is recycled metal sourced in Australia. 

Serena Holm

Serena Holm is a Swedish jeweller who uses the most amazingly eclectic range of materials and imagery in her work including porcelain doll parts, silver, plastic, paper, silk, glass, coral, pearl, parts of clocks...

Wendy Ramshaw

Wendy Ramshaw is an international champion of modern jewellery and is well known for her sculptural ring stands.  These are her signature pieces of ringsets on sculptural ring stands, incorporating jewellery into objects for display.

Gijs Bakker

Bakker (Amersfoort 1942) trained as a jeweller and industrial designer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Konstfack Skolen in Stockholm, Sweden.  He makes jewellery and designs products for the home and his work is shown all over the world.

Peter Tully

During the seventies and eighties, Peter Tully worked with designers Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee, producing jewellery that drew on Australia's natural and cultural environment. His experience of traditional tribal cultures came from many years of travel in New Guinea, Africa and India.
Inspired by the way tribes created an identity through their ceremonial or party costumes, Tully became a master of transformation, using the most mundane and kitsch of modern materials and found objects: dayglo plastics, fake fur, trinkets and cheap toys. By combining them in unexpected ways, and drawing directly on the imagery of popular and gay culture, Tully could transform the ordinary into spectacle.

Best known for his extraordinary jewellery and costume designs, his range of production extended from small and intimate works to major public events such as World Expo 88.

Peter Chang's Amazing Bracelets!

In his workshop in Glasgow Peter Chang makes spectacular jewellery, like a bracelet he made from a mix of bought acrylics and old beads, map pinheads and part of a broken shop-sign. Large but light, comfortable to wear but robust, his bracelets are like sculpture that you can put your hand through. Dazzling in their saturated colour, they are reminiscent of exotic plants and creatures from the sea or science fiction.
After sketching a design, Chang starts with a polystyrene base that he carves into shape. He then painstakingly covers the surface using mosaic and lacquer techniques, faceting and tweezering tiny pieces of coloured acrylic into position.

Mette Saabye

Mette Saabye was born in 1969, and is professionally educated as a jeweller. She has studied jewellery design in Florence at Fuji Studio and at the Institute of Precious Metals from which she graduated in 1996. She has since worked as a designer and jewelry artist.

Mette Saabye is one of Danish jewellery art's most acclaimed experimental artists. Her sources of inspiration range from craft and its possibilities, function, beauty, ornamentation and the relationship between body and jewellery.