WINNERS 2024

Kiah Bibby

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

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 Jordan

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

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

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

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