LOUISA GUINNESS OPENS THE FIRST EXHIBITION SPACE DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO JEWELLERY CREATED BY ARTISTS

Louisa Guinness, founder of the Louisa Guinness Gallery has opened her first exhibition space dedicated exclusively to jewellery. The Gallery, at 45 Conduit Street in Mayfair, London, has announced a series of inaugural exhibitions in the Autumn of 2013 which will show new work by contemporary artists such as Anish Kapoor, Conrad Shawcross, Sam Taylor-Wood and Antony Gormley as well as pieces by 20th century masters such as Picasso, Calder, Man Ray and Fontana. 

“We are the first gallery to deal exclusively in artist-made jewellery,” says Guinness. “We don’t work with jewellers, only artists whose primary medium is either painting or sculpture. We offer artists a new form in which to express themselves and at the same time challenge them to adapt their artistic language to the demands of scale and function.” 

The gallery will open with an exhibition entitled ‘Anish Kapoor and Modern Masters’ which will run from 15 October to 18 November. At the same time, the Louisa Guinness Gallery will also be exhibiting at PAD London (Pavilion of Art and Design) in Berkeley Square from 16 – 20 October, where work by Bill Copley, Frank Stella, Mariko Mori, Conrad Shawcross, Sophia Vari, Anish Kapoor and Claude Lalanne will be shown. 

The launch of the Louisa Guinness Gallery reflects a growing interest amongst art collectors for jewellery made by artists and for investment pieces which can be worn as a piece of statement jewellery or enjoyed as miniature sculptures. 

In the art world, materials of little intrinsic worth are valued for their artistic merit, based on the value demonstrated by the imaginative and creative use of the artist. For pieces made by master jewellers the opposite is true and a piece may be valued for the expensive stones and metals which have been used. 

In the art world, materials of little intrinsic worth are valued for their artistic merit, based on the value demonstrated by the imaginative and creative use of the artist. For pieces made by master jewellers the opposite is true and a piece may be valued for the expensive stones and metals which have been used. 

Guinness has commissioned artists including Anish Kapoor, Sophia Vari, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Michael Craig Martin, William Ehrlich and Ron Arad to work in stone and glass. The exhibition will challenge the conventions of traditional jewellery making with a range of new and imaginative pieces made from a variety of materials. The show will run from 20 November to 20 December at the Louisa Guinness Gallery in Conduit Street.