Ringing the Changes 2025
April 12th - July 12th
Ringing The Changes is an exhibition of internationally renowned British-based jewellers who design distinctly modern rings that complement both the contemporary and the traditional. The exhibition has been a regular feature at the gallery, and now in its eleventh year, it is set to feature eight wonderfully talented designers at the gallery. Sustainability is important with the designers using materials that are sourced as ethically as possible.
Warm Wishes, Victoria & Team
Abigail Brown
Abigail Brown is a British silversmith known for her contemporary silverware since 2001. Her work has been exhibited at prestigious venues like the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery, and Goldsmiths’ Hall. Her pieces are part of the National Museum Wales collection. A Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, she has also received the Freedom of the City of London. Inspired by nature, she specializes in traditional hammer-forming techniques. In addition to her studio work, Abigail is dedicated to passing on skills and has taught silversmithing courses at institutions like West Dean College. She emphasizes traditional techniques while encouraging students to develop their unique creative expressions. She won the Bavarian State Prize in 2015.
Amanda Cox
Amanda is better known for her Lily Collection, but her latest passion is making exclusive, one off rings. “When I source gemstones, I’m like a child in a sweet shop. I love their brilliance, colour and sparkle. When I had my workshop in Hatton Garden (London) and had to find a particular stone for a job, I would go into the gemstone shop, get mesmerised and always came out with far more than the one stone I had intended to get.” Now she loves sourcing them on her travels. Each of these rings is lovingly made using traditional workbench techniques. The gemstone is the star.
Some of the rings are 18ct gold vermeil .... a luscious 3 micron thick plating of 18ct gold on top of sterling silver. Others are silver with solid 9ct gold beads decorating the sides of the setting. They are all hallmarked at the Birmingham Assay Office. She hopes you will love wearing them as much as she has loved making them.
Barbara Spence
Barbara uses traditional techniques to create a range of modern geometric jewellery, strongly influenced by mid-century designs. Her pieces are highlighted by contrasting textures, colour and materials. With the Perspex collection, conceived to complement her existing work, she has reworked her signature pieces in vibrantly coloured acrylics.
The sets of square stacking rings best exemplify Barbara’s work. They are made up of two or more rings in exciting combinations of precious metals, beautiful gemstones and brightly coloured acrylics. The rings sit together on the finger but are not attached, so they can also be worn individually, in different combinations or with alternative coloured Perspex rings.
Barbara originally studied Maths at university, but after taking a ‘Make a silver ring course’ had a complete change of direction. She studied jewellery techniques and design at City Lit, completing her diploma in 2010.
Barbara now works from a shared studio in north London.
Lucy Martin
Lucy strives to create contemporary fine jewellery with a unique sense of colour and craftsmanship. She loves the idea that jewellery is an individual collection of stories and cherished moments that we wear and carry with us.
Lucy specialises in creating bespoke pieces using coloured gemstones, which are carefully selected and often individually cut for her designs. Lucy works using simple tools and traditional techniques, aiming to create sleek forms, concealing connections and fixings, where possible, keeping the focus on the unique natural qualities of the gemstones.
Lucy lives and works in South London, where she grew up and established her workshop in 2002 at Cockpit Arts in Deptford. Lucy completed her jewellery training at Birmingham School of Jewellery and Central Saint Martins.
Michael Carberry
“Tap, tap, tap, blast, quench, tap. Repeat.”
These are the daily sounds that you will hear from the workshop of Michael Carberry. His work takes time to create, and the pieces emerge from playing with materials and processes, observing how metal can be moved, stretched, shaped and formed.
Michael’s fascination with the surface of metal is constant, and he loves to see how far he can push it and how much movement he can generate. Sometimes this is too far …. and it tells him to start again …. but this is the fun of his relationship with his material.
Michael’s work has featured in exhibitions both in the UK and internationally and is owned in public and private collections.
Rebecca Burt
Rebecca is a jewellery designer/maker based out of her studio in Canton, Cardiff, where she creates textural, organic jewellery from silver, gold and gemstones. Working on one-off pieces and small stock collections, her jewellery aesthetic features carefully selected gemstones, with playful colour gradients.
Her pieces are all influenced by having a directional quality that captures movement and a sense of flow, using mark-making and building up silver grains to create wearable pieces of jewellery.
Everything is made and crafted by Rebecca’s hands, allowing for no two pieces to be the same, giving each piece its own individual personality.
Seraga England
Natalie Manifold is the jeweller behind the brand Seraga England and has been shortlisted for UK Jewellery Awards Emerging Jewellery Designer of the Year 2024
Natalie is a British Egyptian living in Lyme Regis. Her journey to becoming a jeweller is quite unusual. When she couldn’t find jewellery that she wanted to wear for her wedding, her eyes were opened to the vast world of jewellery that exists beyond the High Street brands. During September - December of that very long year of pandemic lockdowns, she attended classes at Exeter College. Later, she studied with the Jewellers Academy and about 6 months after that, she began her first job as a bench assistant.
The name Seraga comes from the name of her father, Serag, a Coptic Egyptian. He led Natalie through the early part of her life, encouraging her talents to flourish and so it felt appropriate to name the company after him and the ancestry that has inspired her. Where possible, she tries to combine the luxury of ancient Egyptian jewellery with the wonder of the natural world, such as ancient British woodland.
Natalie believes in the time-honoured tradition of her art, that is to make each item with love and the great care it merits. Seraga England jewellery takes you on a journey right into ancient times.
Sian Evans
Award-winning Sian Evans is a British Jewellery designer, goldsmith and lapidarist from Dorset, now residing and working in Dorset after four decades in London. Sian’s work is inspired by interests in archaeology, fashion, geology, nature and sustainable technologies with a deep interest in storytelling.
Her many jewellery collections over her career have taken some very different forms, stemming from ideas, ethics and heuristics. Some fashion lead, some materials lead and some process lead.
Each of her collections in the last decade has been an exploration of process in a long-term project about sustainable working practices.
Between 1982 – 86, Sian studied jewellery design, silversmithing and goldsmithing at the Cass University, now the London Metropolitan University and during her summer breaks, worked as a volunteer archaeologist in Dorset. Sian went on to become a Senior Lecturer in BA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts. She has now returned to and pursues her own design and creative practice.