NYC / OLD JEWELRY GROUP SHOWCASE
HILFREICH in NYC!!
I am very happy to be showing new work alongside three jewellers at OLD JEWELRY in New York. I have been working on this collection, exclusive to the shop, since the cold months of March when I could be found in my local park hunched over a notebook in my gloves, drawing. Stepping outside of the studio was great for my productivity and drawing/ researching the small plants I saw emerging out of the ground after winter was exciting. In this collection you will find Violets, Dandelions, Green Alkanet, Doc leaves&Nettles and ants.
OLD JEWELRY is pleased to announce its first group showcase - a summer solstice collection of limited edition works from four distinct jewelers.
GROUP SHOW 01 features the gem clustered and dappled light cutaway lace works of NYC-based Shana Cave, the kinetic and glass infused constructivist wearables by Paris-based Marie Laure Floor, wax carved sapphire gripped botanic drawing rings by London-based Willa Hilfreich, and the crochet, tendril and sculpted lost wax works of Sacile, Italy-based Giovanni Zulian.
GROUP SHOW 01 premieres in store and online this FRIDAY, JUNE 20th at 12pm EST -- but thanks to staying INTHELOOP, you'll have EARLY ACCESS ♥ a password protected 2-hour head start!
set your alarms ⏰ and keep your eyes peeled 👀 for the EARLY ACCESS email delivered to your inbox at 10am EST this FRIDAY JUNE 20 !
OLD JEWELRY STORE75 East Broadway #227, New York New York 10002, , Open every , TUES - SUN, 12PM - 7PM
Knot rings
I have made a few knotted rings recently. They have been very satisfying to create and I also enjoyed manipulating the softer wax and embedding stones into it.
Ants
CARDBOARD VIII
Some of you might have noticed that rather a few drawings of ants have crept onto my rings recently… I spent an afternoon this summer spreading grass seeds in my mum’s garden only to find a couple of hours later that they had arranged themselves back into a neat pile. On closer inspection we noticed that thousands of manic ants were hurriedly carrying them from all over the mud bank and creating stockpiles. I found this hysterical and my mother was furious [and started stamping on them :,(]. After this episode I decided to introduce them into my engraved pieces for a while - I like ants.
Ant collecting seeds
CARDBOARD IX
Wondering People HOME 01
My brass cast cardboard candlestick holders have been included in HOME 01, the first of the Wondering People home collections.
SERVICE95 (aka Dua Lipa) feature
A friend emailed me to say they had spotted me on the SERVICE95 Issue 107 March 2024 newsletter under ‘the good buys, Three picks from women-founded brands…’. Exciting.
From the Archive: Ella Costache photo series 2021
Photographer: Ella Costache
Styling: Tudor Covaciu & Stefan Zamfor
Hairstyling: Domonique Smith
Models: Indira Toussaint, Betty Ogundipe and Kenechi Carmel Amamgbo
CARDBOARD
CARDBOARD is a new and ongoing series of one of a kind pieces made in homage to cardboard. Cardboard’s structure makes it sturdy but also fragile if bent in the wrong direction. As a box, it can be used to protect an object but it can also be used in play and manipulated into shapes and drawn onto.
Iona Sherwood images for Mussi knits and HJ
Gorgeous photos by Iona Sherwood of some Mussi knit pieces and some of my recent silver Cardboard pieces and some older brass flowers.
Ghost dog returns
THE GHOST DOG RETURNS!
After the first ghost dog necklaces that were made in collaboration with Paule Josephe sold out so quickly, we have decided make them available one last time on pre-order.
Ghost dog will be available to pre-order for one week, from today until Tuesday 9 July, via the PJ website.
These necklaces will be cast and ready to ship by mid August.
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For this collaboration, Hannah from PJ sent me a number of her drawings to create the pendant from. After a bit of experimentation we landed on the character ghost dog which I then created in wax and cast in silver. Once cast, I painted a patina onto each pendant to highlight the eyes and spiral which were prominent in the original drawings.
We love them and we hope you do too :)
Check out the rest of the Paule Josephe collection here.
Thank you <3
