Exhibition Details

David Gill Gallery is proud to announce a new group exhibition of fine jewellery entitled New Nature, curated by author and historian Carol Woolton. The show explores the diversity of design, defining how nature is expressed now in the world of fine jewellery, through the work of seven jewellers, and marking an exciting moment.
Two of the major names of our period will be on show: the poetic fluidity of Hong Kong-based Michelle Ong and Italian artist Maurizio Fioravanti, whose unique and highly intricate micro-mosaic fantasies utterly enchant and delight.
US jeweller Mish Tworkowski offers a selection of pieces revealing detailed and textural artistry, whilst Italian artist Fabio Salini show work that is bold, contemporary and highly creative. Delicate beauty can be found in the elegant work of British artist Christopher Thompson Royds. Fellow UK-based jeweller Dina Kamal fuses her modern approach, rooted in architecture, with precise craftsmanship. The gallery is also delighted to announce an exciting new name and point of view in fine jewellery. Paris-based Philippe Vourc’h is showing new pieces that are imbued with a sophisticated and timeless elegance.
“Nature has provided the backdrop to our lives from the beginning,” explains Woolton. “Historically, artists and designers have shown their recurring fascination with biophilic design in the decorative arts as the original way people chose to enhance, enrich, as well as describe their lives. As the world around us transforms, so does our vision of nature. Designers interpret nature through a complex interplay of factors dictated by fashion, artistic movements, technological innovations as well as events and beliefs of the period.”
Francis Sultana, CEO of David Gill Gallery, says, “The Gallery has a long association with showing jewellery and objets de désir—originally with the 50 years of Fashion exhibition back in 1987; to a historical show of Line Vautrin, to fine jewellery of Luigi Scialanga to more recent work by Michele Oka Doner and Emmanuel Tarpin. This new group show, curated by Carol Woolton, one of the UK's leading authors and fine jewellery experts, marks a wonderful new chapter in the gallery's long relationship with fine jewellery. The jewellers that Carol has brought together, from all over the world, really are some of the very best working in fine jewellery today, and I am so excited with this new step for the gallery and its work with jewellers as artists.”