_Mia Maljojoki (one of this year’s Herbert Hofman Prize winners) wearing Aud Charlotte Ho Sook Sinding.

_Marjan Unger wearing “a secret”.

_Carlier Makigawa wearing own.

Rob Koudijs wearing David Bielander (another of this year’s Herbert Hofman Prize winners).

_Monica Brugger wearing own.

_Fran Alison wearing Jacqui Chan (above) and Gillian Deery (below).

_Marion Hosking wearing David Bielander.

_Chiquita Nahar wearing Dung Chun Lee.

_Jacqui Chan wearing Fran Alison.

Each March this week is a pilgrimage for contemporary jewellery devotees from around Europe and around the world.  The twenty something exhibitions attract jewellers, students, educators, gallerists, critics and collectors and naturally everyone is blinged up for the occasion [even the piggy in the butcher].

As lovers of jewellery the pleasure is often in the wearing.  Joy may lie in the performative act of wearing something provocative; in encounters with strangers experimental adornment can induce;  in having a vessel of meaning accompany us in our day-to-day; or a more tactile enjoyment of something in contact with the body.  This blog is dedicated the practice of wearing jewellery.