Lucy Sarneel

Lucy Sarneel, born in Maastricht (NL) in 1961, lives and works in Amsterdam as jewellery artist and teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, department of jewellery. She studied basic jewellery techniques at the Stadsacademie Maastricht and continued her studies at the Gerrit  Rietveld Academie, where she graduated in 1989. Her work is internationally recognised in private and museum collections.

Lucy Sarneel’s work refers to culture and time. Her work provides a counterweight to the high-tech, efficient, mass-oriented world in which cultures are disappearing as a result of commercialisation and globalisation. The visual language of her jewellery is associative, often sculptural, and encourages the free experience of thoughts and feelings.

Exhibitions: 2014 Triple Parade, UBI Gallery Beijing & OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen (CN). Lucy Sarneel & Manon van Kouswijk, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne. 2013 Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial, Beijing. Below Sea Level, Galleri Format, Oslo. Substance, Gustavsberg Konsthall, Stockholm. 2012 Jewellery Conception, Private Cosmos, Kookmin University Gallery, Seoul. Unexpected Pleasures, Design Museum, London. 10 years –re:jewelry, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Soulmates, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen (NL), solo. 2011 Open Mind, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul. Meganano, B-Side Festival, Sarneel-Kampen, Amsterdam. Jewellery Unleashed!, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL). Sunrise Grey, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (DE).

Publications
Lucy Sarneel: Soulmates, exh. cat. Galerie Marzee, self-published, 2013

Jewelbook – International Annual of Contemporary Jewel Art 12/13, Stichting Kunstboek, Oostkamp 2012.

Open Mind, exh. cat. Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul 2011.

Liesbeth den Besten (ed.), On Jewellery. A compedium of International Contemporary Art Jewellery, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2011.

Liesbeth den Besten, “Like Found Objects in my Mind”, in: Metalsmith, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2010, p 36.

• Web: www.lucysarneel.com