Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) has released the first installment of its "On Offer" series for October 2026, presenting a curated selection of extraordinary contemporary art jewelry pieces sourced from its extensive international network of gallery supporters. Designed to celebrate and support independent artists and the galleries that champion them, the bi-monthly showcase highlights innovative craftsmanship, conceptual depth, and unique material exploration from creators around the globe.
In a time when audiences continually seek meaningful connections to culture and individual expression, the featured works offer a combination of wearable art and collectible design. The selected pieces span multiple continents, utilizing everything from traditional precious metals and gemstones to unconventional mediums like polymer clay, mild steel, PVC, and recycled components. AJF encourages interested collectors and enthusiasts to contact the representing galleries directly for inquiries and acquisitions.
Among the standout pieces in the October 2026 lineup is a versatile creation by artist Heather Guidero, presented by Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry in Chicago, Illinois. Priced at US$1,695, Guidero’s oxidized sterling silver brooch and necklace features a striking lilac-colored druzy that catches the light with exceptional brilliance. Enhanced by handmade oxidized sterling silver tassels, the one-of-a-kind piece delivers significant physical movement. Because the design includes a bail, the dynamic work can be worn interchangeably as a statement brooch or suspended as a pendant, demonstrating a functional adaptability prized in contemporary jewelry.
The Wearable Art Museum highlights the work of artist duo 2Roses with their 2026 brooch titled Perch, available for US$750. Recognized for creating small, wearable sculptures designed for placement anywhere on the body, 2Roses uses polymer clay and stainless steel to build Perch. The piece features two hollow forms meticulously covered in hand-cut and finished polymer clay tesserae, creating a shimmering surface that reacts to the wearer’s motion. Composed of a dark, closed form and a pale, open form held in permanent tension and balance, the work relies on the wearer to complete its composition. By choosing the placement and angle on the body, the wearer actively recomposes the artwork.
Represented internationally by Fingers Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, artist Becky Bliss contributes her 2024 pendant series titled Play Time, priced at NZ$750 each. Trained initially as a graphic designer before transitioning into contemporary art jewelry, Bliss has earned international recognition, including selections for the prestigious Schmuck special exhibition in Munich in 2015 and 2020. Crafted from mild steel, sterling silver, paint, and cord, the Play Time pendants anthropomorphize the early childhood development blocks formalized by Friedrich Froebel in the early 19th century. By utilizing shapes from Froebel’s "gift #2"—specifically circles, squares, and triangles—Bliss plays with color, form, and gender, subverting traditional expectations to illustrate the fluidity of youth and the boundaryless expression of play.
Galerie Door in Nijmegen, Netherlands, showcases the work of renowned artist Daniel Kruger with an untitled 2026 brooch crafted from copper and cornelian, retailing at 2,000€. Kruger’s artistic practice famously bridges disparate worlds, combining shells, gemstones, plastics, relics, and everyday objects into unified compositions. His work is known for being surprising, exuberant, and seductive, inviting viewers to linger and examine fine details. By merging traditional textile work with refined metalwork, and pairing precious materials with mundane or industrial elements, Kruger creates jewelry that functions simultaneously as an ornament, a talisman, a personal statement, and an object of joy.
In Adelaide, Australia, Zu design features a piece by Angela Giuliani titled Parti Sapphire, a 2026 ring crafted from parti sapphires, nine-karat gold, and sterling silver, priced at AUS$8,615. The work is part of Zu design’s exhibition stateMEANT, which asks contemporary jewelers to provide written statements exploring their practice, processes, and the social, political, or material narratives behind their work. Giuliani’s piece reflects her ongoing exploration of structure, form, and geometry. Working primarily with sterling silver alongside yellow and rose gold, she emphasizes clean lines, balanced geometric designs, and the meticulous evolution of craftsmanship, aiming to create thoughtful and timeless jewelry that fosters a lasting personal connection.
Four Gallery in Umeå, Sweden, presents Karin Seufert’s Necklace 539, created in 2026 using PVC and thread, with a retail price of 1,700€ excluding VAT. Seufert’s latest body of work grapples with the immaterial and ever-changing nature of time, utilizing the sky and celestial bodies as conceptual frameworks. In this series, the sun is interpreted as a flickering yellow circle, the moon is represented through its shifting phases, and the stars are captured in multifaceted forms, translating celestial navigation and temporal passage into wearable structure.
Philadelphia’s Gravers Lane Gallery features an 18-karat yellow gold and sterling silver necklace by Naomi Kurita, created in 2025 and priced at US$4,752. Kurita, who was born in Japan and studied metalwork at the Rhode Island School of Design before refining her craft in New York, operates under three core principles: natural, simple, and wearable. Her timeless necklace sets the distinct warmth of 18-karat yellow gold against sterling silver at a length designed to sit closely at the base of the neck. Kurita’s minimalist aesthetic has earned her exhibitions in museums and galleries across the United States and Japan.
Baltimore Jewelry Center highlights the work of Liz Clark through her 2023 Petite Wreath Studs, crafted from sterling silver and priced at US$1,75. Clark, who earned her BFA in crafts and material studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, maintains a metal studio in Providence, Rhode Island, where she produces part-time contemporary art jewelry exhibited nationally.
London-based gallery Objects Beautiful presents The Other Shore #2, a 2022 brooch by Taiwanese artist Mei Fang Chiang made from anodized aluminum and stainless steel wire, priced at £760 before tax. Based in Tainan, Chiang is celebrated for developing specialized studio techniques that allow her to utilize color with unique brilliance on anodized aluminum. Her work engages with the complex narratives surrounding the coexistence of nature and the man-made. Her award-winning jewelry, which is held in public collections such as Taiwan’s Gold Museum, is noted for being exceptionally light, original, and comfortable to wear.
In Brooklyn, New York, In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works features Kerianne Quick’s 2026 brooch, Well, It’s Not Up to Us, made from vegetable-tanned leather, Plexiglas, and a nickel alloy pin, available for US$650. Quick’s research focuses on craft as a cultural expression and the concept of "material specificity," which recognizes materials as active participants in meaning-making. The featured piece belongs to the Nevermind series, which consists of black-shrouded mirrors made from leather and Plexiglas. Referencing historical mourning traditions of covering mirrors after a death, Quick subverts the practice, turning the obscured reflection back onto the living to materialize complex emotions such as shame, despair, and culpability.
Galeria Tereza Seabra in Lisbon, Portugal, presents Catarina Silva’s necklace Sugar Rush, created in 2026 from painted tin, leather, glass seed beads, glass flowers, embroidery, zinc, silver, and pearls, priced at 1,500€ plus shipping. The necklace debuted in Silva’s solo exhibition Jardin d’agrément, part of the third Lisbon Jewellery Biennial. The exhibition explores a utopian garden inspired by cross-cultural paradisiacal myths where humans, animals, and plants coexist in a shared ecology. Incorporating symbols such as flowers, birds, and the guardian snake, the jewelry serves as a poetic fiction encouraging new ways of imagining harmonious coexistence.
Heidi Lowe Gallery in Lewes, Delaware, showcases Emily Cobb’s Floppy Flower, a 2026 piece fabricated from gold-plated brass ear nuts, surgical steel ear nuts, assorted deadstock stud earrings, brass jump rings, and a silver-filled jump ring, priced at US$1,480. The work was created for the ReJewelry exhibition hosted in conjunction with Radical Jewelry Makeover.
Rounding out the selection, Galeria Reverso in Lisbon, Portugal, features an untitled 2026 necklace by Manuel Vilhena, crafted from juniper, ebony, fine silver, cotton, coral, and steel, retailing at 2,220€. Addressing the fundamental human dichotomy between life and death, Vilhena’s work explores the theme through the lens of pirates—figures who famously defy mortality and live alongside danger as a daily partner.
