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Cluster Founder, Art Director, Producer
@cluster__contemporaryjewellery
@cluster__crafts
@cluster__illustration
@cluster__photographyandprint

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More time to apply! ⏳

Word about the Remote Jewellery Artist-in-Residence is spreading, and many artists have only just discovered it. So we’re giving everyone a little more time: applications now close 6 November.

Create from your own studio, then exhibit in London, with mentorship, materials covered, a guaranteed press feature and shipping, travel and accommodation for your solo exhibition provided.

Link in bio to apply 🔗

A big thank you to our amazing partners for supporting this residency:
@artjewelryforum_org
@societyofdesignercraftsmen_sdc
@k2jewelleryacademy

and to our jury and mentors, who give their time and expertise:
Harriet Scott @harriet_lemessurier
Alice Treasure @museumofalternativejewellery
Mihaela Ion @mihaella_ion
Holinka Escudero @jewelleryactivist
Vinh Lê @vinhpear
Claudia Lepik @claudia.lepik
Ema Marinova @ema_mrnv

#jewelleryresidency #contemporaryjewellery #artistresidency #opencall #jewelleryartist

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Happy Moments from summer.

What a beautiful season it was. Grateful for all of the beautiful friends and beautiful travels and beautiful music experienced.

Couldn’t ask for a more rewarding lifestyle.

THANK YOU MUSIC

🌞❤️

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Things seen things done

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Meet the jury and mentors behind the Remote Jewellery Artist-in-Residence.

A panel of makers, curators, writers and cultural voices who will read your application and support the selected artist:

✦ Harriet Scott @harriet_lemessurier, runs Goldsmiths’ Fair @goldsmithsfair , the UK’s leading showcase of contemporary jewellery and silversmithing.

✦ Alice Treasure, founder of the @museumofalternativejewellery , a platform championing underlauded contemporary artists.

✦ Mihaela Ion @mihaella_ion , cultural manager and art researcher, Vice-President of AICA and co-founder of Atelierul Magazine @revista_atelierul .

✦ Holinka Escudero @jewelleryactivist , founder of The Jewellery Activist, a research-driven platform and community for contemporary jewellery.

✦ Vinh Lê @vinhpear , jewellery and ceramic objects maker based in Bucharest, working across sculpture, performance and drawing.

✦ Claudia Lepik @claudia.lepik , Estonian jewellery artist and our 2022 CLUSTER resident.

✦ Ema Marinova @ema_mrnv , Founder and Director of CLUSTER, with more than 90 exhibitions and projects curated.

Swipe through to read more about each of them. 👉

Applications close 23 October. Link in bio 🔗

#jewelleryresidency #contemporaryjewellery #artistresidency #opencall #jewelleryartist remoteresidency clusterjewellery

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BEFORE THE DIGITAL, THERE WERE MY HANDS.

This curatorial journey with CLUSTER London — AMALGAM took me somewhere I somehow needed to return to.

Back to my essence as a multidisciplinary artist. Back to my hands. To the need to touch materials, feel ceramics, shape the earth, fire clay, and reconnect with the beauty of processes in which matter transforms.

It brought me back to my roots.

To my grandfather, a jeweller. To the ceramic industry that is part of my family’s history. To my mother, an artist, and to my grandmothers, who were weavers.

It made me realize that so much of what I create today within digital worlds was born long before these technologies existed.

It was already there. In craftsmanship, in materials, in the hands of my family. In a creative heritage that has always lived within my work, even when I wasn’t fully aware of it.

AMALGAM became a way of reconnecting with my own history through matter.

And of understanding that technology doesn’t replace this knowledge. It can open new possibilities for it to continue evolving.

Because long before we began building digital worlds, we learned to create with our hands.

And perhaps the future is also about remembering where we come from.

Deeply grateful to @cluster__contemporaryjewellery for creating a space for this exploration and allowing me to share such a personal part of my BIONATURE universe.

Some things are not invented. They are remembered.

Natalia Gaviria Barreneche
BIONATURE

#ClusterLondon #AMALGAM2026 #BIONATURE #LivingTalismans #MultidisciplinaryArtist ContemporaryArt

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WHAT MAKES YOU BET ON AN ARTIST?

For Ema Marinova @ema_mrnv , Founder of CLUSTER and Art Director, it often starts with instinct.

After more than a decade of working with artists at very different stages of their careers, Ema has learned to trust that first feeling when something stops her in her tracks — while also looking closely at the less obvious signs: consistency, motivation, character and the potential for an artist to grow.

For this year’s Cluster Illustration Residency, those questions became even more important.

Who genuinely needs this opportunity now? Who will take the time, space and support of a residency and turn it into something meaningful? And how do you recognise that potential when it isn’t always visible in a portfolio?

In this interview, Ema talks about what she looks for beyond a polished body of work, why determination and drive matter so much to Cluster, and why supporting illustration feels particularly important at a time when AI and new technologies are rapidly changing the creative landscape.

She also shares how the residency jury was intentionally built to bring together very different perspectives — and what she has learned from seeing hundreds of applications over the years.

At the heart of it all is something very simple: finding artists who are ready to make something happen with an opportunity.

Swipe through to hear from Ema and get a closer look at what sits behind the Cluster Illustration Residency.

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bits and peeps from my world of Jigit ☄️

Amsterdam incomiiing.. 🪄🪄

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We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Cluster Remote Jewellery Artist-in-Residence: a focused, supported month for one artist to develop, refine and be seen, all from their own studio. 🌍

You asked, we listened. A month in London was too much for many of you, so this time the residency comes to you.

- One-month remote residency
- Create from your own studio, on your own schedule
- Professional and peer mentorship
- Materials covered
- Guaranteed press feature
- Solo exhibition in London, with shipping, travel and accommodation provided
& more

Don't wait. Learn more & APPLY NOW via link in bio!
Applications close 23 October

DM us for community discounts!!

#artistinresidence #contemporaryjewellery #remoteresidency #opencall

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AMALGAM — THE LIVING TALISMAN
@cluster__contemporaryjewellery × BIONATURE

Himiko received it.
Natalia activated it.
Kumiko became it.

Three manifestations of one living consciousness.

Himiko carries the ancestral memory.
Natalia brings it into the present — transforming inheritance through body, intuition and creation.
Kumiko embodies its next state: matter and consciousness evolving in symbiosis.

Through ceramic, gold, emerald and biomaterial, memory becomes matter.
Matter becomes activation.
And the talisman becomes a living system, transformed by every guardian who carries it.

The object is not worn.
It is activated.

In BIONATURE, inheritance is not preserved as a relic.
It is living intelligence — something we receive, transform and choose to transmit.

ONE TALISMAN.
THREE ERAS.
ONE LIVING MEMORY.
AN INFINITE BECOMING.

This is not an ornament.
It is a Living Legacy.

AMALGAM — The Living Talisman
BIONATURE · Natalia Gaviria Barreneche

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london // houghton // peep // brussels // luxembourg // berlin [portrait]

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비어 있는 공간을 만듭니다.
Giving form to empty space.

From AMALGAM 2026 · London
Presented by @cluster__contemporaryjewellery
Curated by @valeria.del.vacchio
@ema_mrnv
@l_d_f_official

#contemporaryjewelry #artjewellery #brooch #jiminsurh #craftwork

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Snapshots from my participation at AMALGAM exhibition opening by @cluster__contemporaryjewellery 11.09.2026

Few days still left for you to pass by!
The exhibition is open until the 20th of September at Spitalfields

Hanbury Street 14, E1 6QR London

@l_d_f_official
@valeria.del.vacchio

#contemporaryjewellery #jewelrydesign
#artjewellery

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