Jed is inspired by the use of everyday materials to create unique and precious pieces. She uses glass in combination with silver, gold elements adding warmth and colour, wood, pearls and paper add detail, pattern and form. She creates innovative wearable sculpture.
Clear borosilicate glass tubes, commonly used in science, are lamp worked to form various shapes. Moving pieces or clusters of these are linked together by drilling and pinning. Colour is applied by painting the interior of the glass wall and applying handmade transfers to pattern the outside. Wood is cut, carved and dyed adding structure and support also allowing certain elements to open and small containers revealed.
The idea for the Wear/Display series began in 2020 during a time of change both in living and working environments. It was an opportunity to revisit milestones, memories, past ideas and work packed away for years and bring them back into focus by creating new ones, each now with a sense of the past, present and looking to the future of Jed’s life and practice. Her work is infused with a private language referencing family, important events and her immediate surroundings. This informs her decision making when designing a piece therefore creating a visual story.
Jed’s new work sees her continuing to evolve ideas around multi use pieces and unworn jewellery becoming treasured objects.
They are objects to display as sculptures, use as containers and also have elements that can be removed and worn, pieces that adapt and change.
Exhibitions
2025 - London Art Fair. Ruup & Form
London Craft Week. Solo Pop Up Show . Ruup & Form
Jewellery Now. Ruthin Craft Centre
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2024 - Collect. Ruup & Form. Somerset House. London. March 3-5
Future Icons Selects. London Craft Week May 15-19
2023 - Future Icons Selects. London 11-14 May
Goldsmiths’ Fair. London. Week One. Sept 26 - Oct 1
2022 - In the Spotlight - 40 Years in the Making. Craft Centre and Design Gallery. Leeds
Goldsmiths’ Fair. London
2021- Crafts Alive. Rodmarton Manor. Gloucestershire
Ruup & Form. Disobedient. London Craft Week
2020 - LOT2 Collect Open, Collect, Somerset House London
Mad About Jewelry Trunk Show. Museum of Arts and Design. New York
2019 - LOT1 Retrouvius, London Craft Week
Goldsmiths’ Fair. London
Cosmima, London
2018 - LOOT. Museum of Arts and Design New York
Goldsmiths’ Fair. London
2017 - Bijoux. Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach USA
Made Canary Wharf. London
GlassWeekend. Wheaton Arts NJ USA
Made London
SOFA Chicago, Hedone Gallery
2016- Art Palm Beach USA Donna Schneier Fine Arts
Bijoux. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach USA
LOOT. Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Art Hamptons. USA. Donna Schneier Fine Arts
Made London
SOFA Chicago, Hedone Gallery
2015- Bijoux. Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach USA
GlassWeekend Wheaton Arts NJ USA
Made London
SOFA Chicago USA
2014- Handmade in Britain.London
The Contemeporary Craft Festival Devon
Made London
SOFA Chicago. Hedone Gallery. USA
2013- The Contemporary Craft Festival.Devon
Dazzle. Edinburgh
LOOT. Museum of Arts and Design. New York
SOFA. Chicago. Hedone Gallery USA
Dazzle. OXO Tower
2012- The Contemporary Craft Festival. Devon
Art in Action. Oxford
LOOT. Museum of Arts and Design. New York
SOFA. Chicago. Hedone Gallery. USA
In The Spotlight. The Craft Centre and Design Gallery. Leeds
FlourishRing. Kath Libbert Gallery. Saltaire
Lustre. Nottingham
Made.. London
Made by Hand. Wales
Dazzle. National Theatre. London
2011- British Jewellers – Santa Monica Museum of Art. California.
The Contemporary Craft Fair – Devon
LOOT. Museum of Arts and Design. New York
Sieraad. Amsterdam
Made by Hand. Wales
Publications
New Bangles. Nicolas Estrada. Promopress
Alba Longa. Ludvig Rage
Contemporary Jewelery Design. Loretta Lam. Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Jewelbook. Stichting Kunstboek
Showcase 500 Rings. Lark Books
Showcase 500 Beads. Lark Books
Glass Jewellery. Yvonne Coffey. A&C Black
Collections
2013 Museum of Arts and Design. New York - Ring
Tuan Lee- Bangle/ring/necklace
Education
2001- Set up workshop
1993-1995- Jewellery at Kingsway College. London
1982-1984- The Slade School of Fine Art London.
1979-1982- BA (hons) Fine Art.The Art School, North East London Polytechnic.
1978-1979- Arts Foundation Course. Kingston Polytechnic.