05/21/2026
Last week, we stepped inside a dream.
Throwing it back to Box of Dreams — a pop-up exhibition at the Goldsmiths' Centre in London, part of London Craft Week. Co-curated by artist-jewellers Ella Fearon-Low and Jed Green, the show brought together 16 leading UK craftspeople to explore how boxes and vessels carry meaning beyond what they physically contain. By pairing precious and non-precious materials, it highlighted the relationship between material, form, and meaning — and how traditional craft techniques continue to evolve through experimentation and storytelling. Vessels, brooches, boxes, and rings — all created by contemporary makers and available for purchase.
We're spotlighting a few of the makers featured inside ✨
Jed Green is our current DISCOVER artist — and seeing her work in person only deepens appreciation for what she does. Her pieces exist at the intersection of jewellery, sculpture, and object, crafted from borosilicate glass, silver, gold, wood, paper, paint, and pearls. They function as intimate landscapes — three-dimensional collages that speak of memory, place, and the beauty of impermanence. Her Wear / Display series invites each wearer to reinterpret the piece as their own. Explore her full DISCOVER profile on our website.
Ella Fearon-Low, co-curator and exhibiting maker, crafts playful yet sophisticated brooches and earrings with a strong graphic sensibility. Her handmade pieces draw from an eclectic range of influences — 17th century glassware, Roman jewellery, Post-modern architecture — layered into sculptural wearables with distinctive colour and texture.
Elsa Tierney works at a beautiful intersection of cultural techniques and art historical influences — Impressionism, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau — carving figurative forms in hard wax and finishing them with mitsuro hikime, a Japanese method that allows the material itself to shape the outcome. The video in this post captures the remarkable process of a dragonfly on a branch stand becoming a brooch and pendant necklace.
The Goldsmiths' Centre supports the jewellery and silversmithing industry through lifelong learning, affordable workspace, and community — and this show was a testament to what that environment nurtures.
