Jewels for the Hall: Scaling Jewellery into Interior Adornments

Saturday 4 October

Breakfast: 9.30am

Talk: 10.00am to 11.00am

£10, does not include Fair entry

What happens when jewellery leaps off the body and onto architecture? That’s the design challenge artist-jeweller Ella Fearon-Low took on for Jewels for the Hall, this year’s bold intervention at Goldsmiths’ Hall. In this energising session, Ella discusses the making of over 150 jewel-like adornments and sculptural, hand-carved wood forms that have transformed the hall with colour, texture, and scale.

Ella will be joined by acclaimed wood-turning duo Ash & Plumb to share the story behind their collaboration on The Three Queens, a trio of bejewelled wooden sculptures that greet visitors at this year’s Fair — part of Jewels for the Hall. This talk offers an intimate look at how disciplines collide, ideas evolve, and scale transforms craft into spectacle.  

About the speakers:

Ella Fearon-Low is a London-based artist jeweller who plunders the visual larder of the past to create wearable and sculptural treasures. Ella works in a non-prescriptive way with different materials and shapes to create one-off pieces and collections that channel a playful and contemporary energy. Her work is heavily informed by historical decorative and domestic objects as well as the natural world. Reoccurring themes in Ella’s work include Renaissance jewellery, Art Deco architecture, and post-modernist aesthetics, as well as the purposeful combination of precious and non-precious materials side by side. 

Barnaby Ash and Dru Plumb are the collaborative duo behind Ash & Plumb, a British studio known for sculptural wooden vessels that blend ancient archetypes with contemporary craftsmanship. Working predominantly in unseasoned oak, they draw on the rhythms of the natural world and a shared fascination with form, texture, and patina. Together, they create turned and carved pieces that explore memory, materiality, and ritual. Their work sits at the intersection of art, design, and storytelling, and has been exhibited internationally, including at Homo Faber in Venice, Collect at Somerset House, and collaborated with Sarah Myerscough Gallery.