WINNERS 2025

Winners : Show Off - Statement Pieces

Designs and /or finished pieces showing creative flair with innovative use
of materials and which demonstrate potential commercial viability.

Ruby Lanigan

@rubygracejewellery

BA Birmingham School of Jewellery

Ruby Lanigan’s collections and designs are deeply inspired by the world of architecture. Living between the beautiful landscapes of Shropshire and the dynamic cityscape of Birmingham, she is constantly captivated by the contrasting styles of architecture. The stark differences between the modern, brutalist designs and the ornate elegance of styles like Baroque architecture have always fascinated her. Her Baroque Architecture Neck Piece is inspired by the grandeur of Baroque architecture whose intricate, opulent gold detailing and vibrant, almost chaotic beauty, led to the creation of the bold necklace. This piece is versatile, offering five distinct ways to wear it. The reversible chain features two sides: one richly detailed and the other more minimalist. The attachable pendant can be worn separately on a chain.

Baroque Architecture Inspired Neckpiece
Materials: Gold plated Sterling Silver, Garnets, cubic zirconia

Yosef Salih Murad

@YosefSMJewellery

BA Glasgow School of Arts

Yosef Salih Murad explores the tension between imposed stereotypes and the personal journey of navigating, adapting, and reclaiming space within those constraints.

His collection, Regular Irregularity, explores the tension between imposed stereotypes and the personal journey of navigating, adapting, and reclaiming space within those constraints.

As an artist of Iranian heritage, he has often felt the impact of western media’s portrayal of his culture, which can create a sense of alienation and hesitation in unfamiliar spaces. This experience informs his work, driving him to create pieces that invite curiosity and connection. He wants his designs to captivate viewers, draw them in and encourage meaningful engagement.

His jewellery is deeply inspired by the cultural and symbolic role of the Persian carpet - a space for rest, nourishment, and storytelling. Through his work, he aims to translate this sense of communal gathering into tangible forms. He hopes those who wear his pieces carry with them a quiet invitation for dialogue, however brief, sparking moments of connection.

Bloom Brooch: The vibrant colour and scent of a flower blooms representing new life and growth.
Materials: Silver, Gold Plating, Cotton and a Steel

Céline Munisso

@soul.carvings

BA University of the Creative Arts

Céline Munisso is a Luxembourgish multi-material carver and jewellery-based artist who works in wax, tagua nut, wood, silver, pearls, and gemstones. Inspired by birds, her work explores fragility, symbolism, and resilience through sculptural and soulful pieces. With roots in drawing, carving, and circus arts, she brings unique sensitivity to her practice, refining her craft and creating intimate, meaningful objects. Her style and themes aim to inspire, spark conversation, and raise awareness around conservation, especially bird protection.

Pay The Bill – The Avicide Collection - is created from love and concern for avian life, confronting their beauty and the threats they face. Birds are essential to ecosystems and culture worldwide. Through aesthetic reflection and education, the collection urges us to reconsider our role in their survival and the urgent need to protect them. Her piece ‘Sinful Indulgence’ confronts the hidden brutality of the French delicacy ortolan, where a tiny songbird is captured, drowned in Armagnac, and eaten whole under a napkin, said to hide the act from God. A baroque pearl on a silver plate stands for the bird, while candle and wine glass evoke ritual, grief, and indulgence. The cloche conceals and reveals, its red interior recalling blood and consumption. Together, these elements form a set table worn as a ring, asking whether the wearer will cover the truth with the cloche or confront it in plain sight.

Sinful indulgence
Materials: sterling silver, Anjan wood, freshwater baroque pearl, 24K gold
leaf, red cold enamel, copper

Lengling Bai

@baibaio0o

MA Central St Martins

Lengling Bai’s jewellery explores sustainable materials, handcraft, and the body’s curves. Her work merges traditional techniques with contemporary scale, creating large, fluid forms that wrap and move with the wearer — reimagining jewellery as an intimate, organic extension. Shimmer Ripple is a collection of three necklaces, one pair of earrings, and one bracelet inspired by sunlight rippling on water. Using paper yarn and silver-plated copper wire, each piece is hand-knitted into flowing linear forms with subtle layers of light and shadow. The design explores purity, movement, and the body’s natural curves. Lightweight and wearable, it emphasises the beauty of sustainable materials and traditional craft. In contrast to the industrial world, Shimmer Ripple reconnects the wearer with nature’s quiet rhythm, capturing the elegance and harmony found in water and light.

Shimmer Ripple: Necklace 2 and earrings
Materials: Paper yarn, Copper, Silver-plated copper

Winners: Responsible Thinking - Sustainable Eco-Heroes

Designs and/or finished pieces made with responsibly sourced or sustainable materials to reflect the growing demand and interest in sustainability. These pieces should demonstrate potential commercial viability.

Lulu Tian

@luluuuu_art

BA Central St Martins

Lulu Tian’s practice bridges traditional metalsmithing techniques with experimental approaches to new materials, creating pieces that push the boundaries of adornment. Balancing craftsmanship and innovation, Lulu explores how jewellery can exist as both wearable art and conceptual design. Her collection ‘The Ocean Left It’s Dead Alive’ explores jewellery, biomaterials, and the marine cycle through fish scale bioplastic, a biodegradable material from discarded fish scales. Inspired by seaweed, plankton, and coral, the modular pieces flow organically across the body. Dyed with natural plant-based pigments, they celebrate ecological sensitivity while reflecting on beauty’s impermanence. These wearable forms embody the ocean’s resilience, drifting between adornment, transformation, and an eventual return to nature.

Soft Clusters I, Biotic Loop I, Microbloom II, Abyssal Threads I
Materials: Fish scales, glycerine, weld natural dye, brazilwood natural dye, madder natural dye, indigo natural dye, sorghum natural dye

Bocen Zhou

@bocen_zhou

MA Royal College of Art

Bocen Zhou is inspired by literary metaphors, art historical contexts, and ecological philosophy and her practice explores symbiotic relationships within the framework of the Anthropocene.

From Dust, To Dust is a series that explores the boundaries between matter and spirit, order and chaos, life and death. Using the symbol of the pebble, it narrates the cosmic cycle and the transformation of matter, revealing the romance and poetry embedded in the life cycles of the universe. Soil becomes both the origin and end of life-a boundary where cycles converge. Between earth and kiln, in transparency and silence, the work constructs a field of flow between order and entropy, linking the ephemeral existence of the individual with the eternal rhythms of the cosmos.

Through a dialogue between dust, soil, glass, and pebbles, the series weaves a narrative about the universe, time, and life-inviting the viewer to reconsider their relationship with nature, temporality, and the Other.

The pieces are crafted using her original kiln-formed glass bubble technique, incorporating natural soil, recycled glass, and reclaimed silver in response to the global demand for sustainable development.

The Life of A Pebble 2025
Materials: Soil, glass, silver

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Kiah Bibby

@ladymisskiah

BA Central Saint Martins

Kiah’s designs reflect her love for pop culture and bold aesthetics, combining classic jewellery elements with contemporary materials. She draws inspiration from films, TV shows, and nostalgic memories to create pieces that tell a story. Her process is playful yet thoughtful, always rooted in deeper meaning. For her graduate collection, “There’s No Place Like Mode,” she was inspired by Ugly Betty, incorporating its sets and characters into her designs. She creates for those who appreciate jewellery with a personal touch and a deeper connection.

The Manhattan Project: Recycled Plastic, Gold Plate with Cubic Zirconia

Joey Zhong

@joeyzhongjewellery

BA Central Saint Martins

Joey Zhong sees jewellery as a form of storytelling. Her designs and process brings together an admiration of jewellery craftsmanship tradition and artistry with contemporary design principles and thinking. Her collections tell a personal narrative of diaspora following her family’s journey of migration where gemstones represent seeds that have been scattered and dispersed. She experiments with weaving and wrapping methods that hold gemstones. She uses donated opal offcuts chosen and collected by her parents from her home city of Sydney. She hand carves these gems to make precious a conventionally neglected material. As offcuts, fractures run throughout the stones. When carved and polished, they resemble relics from the past; seeds that are held and carried.

Woven Opal Cuff: Hand-carved orange opal off-cut, gilding metal, copper

Torquil Gordon

@torquilgordonjewellery

BA Glasgow School of Art

Torquil Gordon's collection ‘Lands of Bent Grass’, draws inspiration from the island landscapes of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, aiming to capture their unique character through jewellery. The collections inspiration was gathered through solo ‘wild’ camping trips into the Outer Hebrides capturing the fierce weather and dramatic landscape through film. Translated into metal, each meticulously crafted piece serves as a wearable memento to the landscape that inspires it.

Overgrowing Rings: sterling silver

Makila Nsika Nkaya

@m.kala_jewellery

MA Central Saint Martins

Makila Nsika is a London based designer dedicated to enhancing the skills of her community in Congo while building a long-term, globally aligned jewellery vision.

Her love for literature, studied at Sorbonne University, informs her practice: she thinks carefully about the analogies between the components she is working with, their social and environmental context. Her final work for the MA Design at Central Saint Martins was twice awarded (Maison/0 green trail and Graduate Award)

Necklace: Palm Nut kernels and gold plated recycled silver

Estelle Burton

@estellemburton

MA Central Saint Martins

Estelle Burton is a contemporary jewellery designer and metalsmith with a fascination for glass. Having recently completed a research-based Design Masers at Central Saint Martins, she spends her time working in collaboration with teams of scientists, engineers and highly skilled scientific glass workers. Using a unique blend of industrial and traditional jewellery processes, Estelle brings together different disciplines to breathe new life into salvaged optics and novel materials. Subverting processes to create opportunities for collaboration and question ideas of value where new forms and structures are made possible using super-strong 'technical' glasses to maximise play with light, colour and shadow on the skin of the wearer.

Skylon Diadem: Borosilicate glass, iron, recycled silver, 24ct gold vermeil, lab grown ruby Hand fabricated head-piece comprising of salvaged precision engineered scientific glass optical waste.

Jiatong (Tina) Jiao

@jiaosjewels

BA Central Saint Martins

Tina Jiao is a jewellery designer, specializing in traditional jade carving techniques such as Devil's work ball and Chain carving. Her work reimagines jade jewellery by blending heritage craftsmanship with contemporary design. Exhibited internationally at Gallery Marzee and featured in Current Obsession magazine, Tina’s creations explore themes of multiculturalism, movement, and individuality, offering a modern take on centuries-old techniques. Through her work, she bridges the past and present, creating unique pieces that communicate her cultural identity.

Jade Chain Bangle: “Xiu Yu” Nephrite Jade

Highly Commended 2024