Photo by Silver Mikiver
Claudia Lepik is a jewellery artist who is intrigued by how to push boundaries in jewellery with scale and material.
Specific interest is face and nose jewellery and including more theatrical fashion inspiration in her works gives her the opportunity to investigate the whole body of a wearer and work with chosen materials being in dialogue with her body. Taking time for each piece is her way of communicating with her emotions and also her way of including her interest in fashion in her creations.
She is in love with her hands and letting them dictate almost the whole process from sketch to final piece. Main material in her big scale works is brass which is differently manipulated to create an almost garment-like feel from afar but then close by you can see the stiffness of metal.
Next to creating art and big scale pieces she is trying to find way of translating her art details into everyday jewellery.
EDUCATION
2015 - 2018 estonian Academy of Arts, design faculty, contemporary jewelry (BA)
INTERNSHIPS
16 Feb. - 19 May 2019 2WO+1NE=1, Fashion Brand, Athens, Greece
RESIDENCIES
11 June - 11 July 2021 Cluster London Jewellery Residency, a month long, London, UK
13 Aug - 16 Sept. 2019 92Y International Jewelry Residency program, a month long, New York City, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
20 nov 2025 endless light ceremony one day exhibition, nyc jewelry week 2025, flux lumina studio, 132 bowery, NYC
6 - 10 Oct 2021 COMMITTEE OF SLEEP, curated by Ema Marinova (Cluster London), Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse, London UK
18 - 24 Nov 2019 ABOUT FACE, curated by Jonathan Wahl, Hall of Mirrors, 92Y, NYC Jewelry Week
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
17 - 24 nov 2025 support systems: the art of the jewelry box, curator isabella matilde esser-munera, cristina grajales gallery, nyc
3 Aug - 16 Oct 2022 Fashion for Bank Robbers curated by Carina Shoshtary, Maximiliansforum Munich, Germany
1 - 30 July 2022 CE-FILES, PART I
30 Sept 2021 - 19 Jan 2021 Keep ___ close to your chest, curated by Sten Tulve-Ojavee, Narva Museum’s Art Gallery, Estonia
21 Feb - 28 June 2020 The Anatomy of Estonian Art Jewellery 1953-2019, curated by Ketli Tiitsar, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
22 - 29 May 2019 Ek-kinesis: Jewelry Schools, Start Ups For New Artists, Athens Jewelry Week 2019
20 - 28 Oct. 2018 VI Artishok Biennial, curated by Sten Ojavee, passenger terminal of the Baltic railway station, Tallinn
28 May - 4 June 2018 SEE EI TÄHENDA MIDAGI (it means nothing), Fahle gallery, Tallinn, III course jewelry and blacksmithing graduate exhibition
AWARDS
18 Oct 2018 AS Noor Ehe Special Prize
21 June 2018 EAA Young Applied Artist Prize (BA)
25 Oct 2017 AS Noor Ehe Special Prize, for Domestic Jewelry project (with Ljubov Kedrina and Kaia Ansip)
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design
Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum
Estonian Academy of Arts / Jewellery and Blacksmithing department