About

Alice Barnes is an award-winning jewellery designer and maker from London, now based in Brighton on the south coast of England. She draws complex beauty from the simplest of forms to make elegant, contemporary jewellery collections & bespoke items with meticulous attention to detail. Her work has been sold all over the world via exhibitions and through esteemed galleries such as The British Museum.

"Back in 2014 I had no workshop and little more than some pliers and a flat sheet of silver, previously won in a student competition. Determined to make something from it, I decided to treat the silver sheet like a piece of paper and see what I could create. I spent hours carefully sawing, bending, and shaping small square sections, sometimes layering and soldering them together. My Square Roots Collection was born and I launched it as part of the New Designers 'One Year On' exhibition (now called ND Selects). Inspired by paper folded forms and strong architectural lines, I have continued to explore this theme ever since.

These days I carefully carve each of my designs in wax instead, and cast them using the ancient lost wax process - similar to that used for casting sculptures. This way I can achieve clean, crisp, "folds" in relatively thick metal. The result is elegant, contemporary jewellery, with a touch of art deco sophistication."