For enthusiasts and collectors looking to acquire unique pieces while supporting independent artists and international exhibition spaces, the Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) has launched the first installment of its October 2026 "On Offer" series. Designed to connect a global network of contemporary galleries with discerning buyers, the bi-monthly showcase highlights extraordinary, hand-selected pieces intended to inspire and captivate. Featuring works ranging from sculptural brooches and conceptual pendants to intricate mixed-media necklaces and rings, this latest edition underscores the diverse materials and boundary-pushing techniques defining the modern art jewelry landscape.
The curated selection spans galleries across the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, reflecting the truly international scope of contemporary jewelry practice. Leading off the collection is a standout piece from Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry in Chicago, Illinois. Featured in the showcase is a brooch and necklace combination by artist Heather Guidero, priced at US$1,695. The striking design centers on a lilac-colored druzy gemstone that offers a vibrant sparkle, complemented by handmade oxidized sterling silver tassels that provide dynamic movement. Complete with an integrated bail, the versatile work can be worn either as a brooch or transitioned effortlessly into a pendant.
Moving to the Wearable Art Museum, director Lisa M. Berman presents the work of artist duo 2Roses. Their 2026 polymer clay and stainless steel brooch, titled Perch, is available for US$750. Operating at the intersection of sculpture and adornment, 2Roses creates small, one-of-a-kind pieces intended to be worn anywhere on the body. Perch consists of two hollow forms covered in meticulously cut and finished polymer clay tesserae, producing a shimmering surface that catches the light with the wearer’s movement. The composition features a dark, closed form paired with a pale, open form, held in a state of permanent tension and balance. The design intentionally relies on the wearer to complete the composition by determining the placement and angle on the body, effectively recomposing the artwork with every wear.
International perspectives continue with Fingers Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, which highlights the work of Becky Bliss. Trained initially as a graphic designer before transitioning into contemporary art jewelry, Bliss has exhibited globally, including selections for the prestigious Schmuck special exhibition in Munich in 2015 and 2020. Her 2024 series of pendants, titled Play Time and priced at NZ$750 each, are constructed from mild steel, sterling silver, paint, and cord. According to the artist, the works play with color, form, and gender while subverting traditional boundaries to reflect the fluidity of youth and the boundless expression found in play. The pieces draw inspiration from the foundational building blocks for child development established by kindergarten system founder Friedrich Froebel in the early 1800s, reinterpreting his geometric "gifts" of circles, squares, and triangles.
In Europe, Galerie Door in Nijmegen, Netherlands, showcases a 2026 untitled brooch by renowned artist Daniel Kruger, offered at 2,000 euros. Kruger’s approach is known for combining unexpected elements—such as shells, gemstones, plastics, relics, and fetishes—into singular, seductive pieces of jewelry. By merging traditional textile work with refined metalwork, Kruger bridges the gap between the sublime and the mundane, the precious and the cheap, and the classical and the kitsch. His jewelry functions alternately as an ornament, a talisman, a statement, or a joyful object designed to draw the eye toward the neck, chest, hand, or ear.
Australia’s Zu design in Adelaide contributes to the showcase through its participation in the contemporary jewelry exhibition stateMEANT, which pairs bold works with artist statements addressing social, political, environmental, or material themes. Angela Giuliani’s 2026 ring, crafted from parti sapphires, 9-karat gold, and sterling silver, is priced at AUS$8,615. Giuliani’s practice explores structure, form, and geometry through precious metals and gemstones. Emphasizing clean lines and balanced geometric design, her work highlights the craftsmanship of the making process just as much as the finished object, utilizing colored gemstones not merely as decoration, but as integral architectural components of timeless, wearable art.
Representing Sweden, Four Gallery in Umeå features Karin Seufert’s Necklace 539, created in 2026 from PVC and thread and priced at 1,700 euros excluding VAT. Seufert’s latest body of work addresses the immaterial and complex nature of time by looking to celestial navigation. Utilizing the sun, moon, and stars as thematic anchors, her pieces translate these celestial bodies into physical forms, depicting the sun as a flickering yellow circle alongside the shifting phases of the moon and the multifaceted geometry of the stars.
Gravers Lane Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, presents a 15-inch necklace in 18-karat yellow gold and sterling silver by Naomi Kurita, retailing for US$4,752. With a career spanning three decades guided by the principles of being natural, simple, and wearable, Kurita combines training from Japan, Denver, the Rhode Island School of Design, and New York workshops. This piece reflects her signature restraint, pairing metals of contrasting warmth to sit closely at the base of the neck, building on a legacy of international museum and gallery exhibitions.
In the United States mid-Atlantic, the Baltimore Jewelry Center highlights Liz Clark’s Petite Wreath Studs from 2023. Crafted in sterling silver and priced at US$175, these earrings reflect Clark’s part-time studio practice in Providence, Rhode Island, following her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
London’s Objects Beautiful gallery features Mei Fang Chiang’s 2022 brooch, The Other Shore #2, made from anodized aluminum and stainless steel wire and listed at 760 British pounds without tax. Based in Tainan, Taiwan, Chiang is celebrated for developing specialized studio techniques that yield vibrant, nuanced color applications on lightweight aluminum. Her award-winning work, which can be found in public collections such as Taiwan’s Gold Museum, explores narratives surrounding the coexistence of nature and the man-made while prioritizing extreme lightness and wearer comfort.
Brooklyn Metal Works in New York presents a brooch by Kerianne Quick titled Well, It’s Not Up to Us, priced at US$650. Constructed from vegetable-tanned leather, Plexiglas, and a nickel alloy pin, the piece stems from Quick’s academic research into material specificity and cultural expression. The work belongs to the Nevermind series, which utilizes black-shrouded leather and Plexiglas "mirrors" to reference historical mourning traditions of covering mirrors after death. Rather than shielding the deceased, the obscured surfaces reflect the viewer, materializing complex emotions such as shame, culpability, and despair.
Galeria Tereza Seabra in Lisbon, Portugal, showcases Catarina Silva’s necklace Sugar Rush, created in 2026 from painted tin, leather, glass seed beads and flowers, embroidery, zinc, silver, and pearls. Priced at 1,500 euros plus shipping, the piece was created for Silva’s solo exhibition Jardin d’agrément, part of the third Lisbon Jewellery Biennial. The exhibition reimagines a utopian garden where humans, animals, and plants coexist in a shared ecology, utilizing symbols like unicorns, flowers, and guardian snakes to evoke regeneration, care, and the continuous cycle of life.
At the Heidi Lowe Gallery in Lewes, Delaware, Emily Cobb’s 2026 piece Floppy Flower is available for US$1,480. Fabricated from gold-plated brass ear nuts, surgical steel ear nuts, assorted deadstock stud earrings, and jump rings, the work was produced specifically for the ReJewelry exhibition hosted in conjunction with Radical Jewelry Makeover.
Concluding the current lineup, Galeria Reverso in Lisbon features an untitled 2026 necklace by Manuel Vilhena, crafted from juniper, ebony, fine silver, cotton, coral, and steel, offered at 2,220 euros. Reflecting on the piece, Vilhena points to the fundamental dichotomy of the precarious dance between life and death, exploring the theme through the lens of outlaws who defy mortality daily, such as pirates who live with danger as a permanent partner.
AJF reminds prospective buyers that inquiries regarding any of the showcased works should be directed straight to the respective galleries. Additional details and future installments of the On Offer series remain accessible through the organization’s official platform.
