Ariana Embirikos
Greek and Bornean jewellery designer Ariana Embirikos creates work that is reflective of the historical and religious importance of jewellery across ancient cultures. Drawing particularly on the theme of nature, the organic designs of her work reflect on our world, life and our indigenous origins.
If you are interested in Ariana’s work, please email all enquiries to ariana@embirikos.com
Website: embirikos.com
Instagram: @embirikos
About
Ariana was drawn to her craft due to the intimate nature of the work with jewellery materials, which demands attention to every millimetre of the object’s surface. Moving from the more traditional materials such as silver and pearls, in her recent work she uses gold, diamonds and coloured gemstones as a way of reviving more archaic designs and practices. In doing so, she employs various forging techniques and looks back to the origins and basics of jewellery making. Often her work addresses her passion for ancient and indigenous jewellery from Greece, Malaysia and various other cultures. Studying these earlier designs, their reflection of spiritual beliefs and their role as intermediaries between us and nature, she has found them representative of our human experience in the world. Her latest collection Bambam and Pebbles draws on reconnecting with nature, being aware of life and using every part of the jewellery process as a valued proof of time. Her future collection is too early in its inception to have a title, but jewellery works within it employ Fairmined gold, coloured gemstones and crystals and address a theme of vibrations. Another one of Ariana’s collections has made its way to the Cycladic museum of Art in Athens, Greece as it draws on the first representations of female form in the Mediterranean stone age.
Bio
Greek by her father and Bornean by her mother, Ariana had a very culturally rich upbringing growing up in Switzerland. Recently she has moved to Brooklyn NY where she has transferred from the Architecture faculty to the jewellery and metal smithing program within the Rhodes Island School of Design and where she has founded her jewellery business Embirikos. She has accumulated an impressive client base around the world and her work has featured in many exhibitions worldwide.
Exhibition History:
2020 New York Jewelry Week, Here We Are, New York, Virtual/International
2020 RISD senior show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence RI, USA
2019 Shop, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
2019 LandFill, Gellman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence RI, USA
2019 NYFW, RISD Collection 19’, The shows, New York, USA
2019 Shape Shifters, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence RI, USA
2018 Dune, Reve For a Cause, Capalbio, Italy
2018 Zip 2.0, Brooklyn, USA
2016 DART, New York, USA
Press & Publications
Images courtesy of the artist.