Helen Feiler (born 1952) is a Cornish-based artist whose sculptural jewellery celebrates the natural qualities and complex designs found in the stones, crystals and fossils she collects. Combining these with precious metals, the artist uses lost-wax techniques, one of the earliest metal technologies evolved, with skills from other disciplines, to complement and animate surface, form and colour in relation to the body.
For Tate St Ives this spring Feiler has created a new collection of spiny, forceful and expressive jewels which often look more like trophies, weapons, spiked and studded armour.
A special edition is available to purchase from the Tate St Ives shop.