Mikala Djørup

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Mikala Djørup did a traditional 4 year apprenticeship as a jeweller in Copenhagen learning all the techniques and tricks of the trade. This background gave her a solid starting point from which to work and experiment.

Her work clearly reflects her fascination with repetition and movement. Several hundred elements that look the same but when examined closer are all individual and different. Making each individual element by hand ensures this diversity.

The repetition creates surfaces full of life that play with the light as they move with their wearer.

Mikala works mainly in gold and silver. Usually she makes the silver matt, white or scratched almost as if it is not finished and still has the roughness of work in progress. When worn these surfaces change; becoming darker and more polished and in this way the wearer puts their mark on the piece.

Colour is introduced with small gem stones but she prefers the stones to act as accents to the metal forms rather than take over from the metal.

Over the last 20 years she has studied and also taught jewellery making at leading centres in the UK, Italy, Germany and her native Copenhagen and won many of the industry's top awards. Her work is marked out by its contemporary, minimalist feel combined with great life and rippling fluidity.