Helena Palmeira is a Brazilian jewellery designer whose practice explores materiality as memory. A recent MA graduate from Central Saint Martins, she creates sculptural pieces using historically and culturally significant materials. Her graduate collection Confluência draws on Brazilian modernism and the aesthetics of binding to explore adornment as transformation. Her work has been featured in (re)Weaving Amazonia, an exhibition during London Climate Action Week and will appear in Brazil Jewellery Week’s upcoming book on Latin American designers. Through binding and transformation, Helena reframes jewellery as a site of reflection, reclamation, and narrative.

Helena Palmeira
hbbpalmeira@gmail.com
Instagram @estudiohelenapalmeira
Exhibitions:

Brazil Jewelry Week
São Paulo
25-30 November 2025

London Design Festival
at Blackdot Gallery
9, Caledonian Road
London
19-21 September 2025

New Designers
at Business Design Centre
London
02-05 July 2025
Nominated for: DH New Jewellery
Designer of the Year Award

(re)Weaving Amazônia
London Climate Action Week
at 79-81 Coal Drops Yard
London
Curated by Lilian Pacce
24-29 June 2025

Degree Showcase
at Central Saint Martins
London
17-22 June 2025
01.Piece A

2025
(contact for pricing)
Jacarandá Choker

reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled gold
110 x 120mm

The piece explores the dialogue between body and object, drawing on the organic, rounded forms of Brazilian modernist art and the visual language of binding and restraint. 
The rich texture of the wood contrasts with its minimal structure, creating a quiet tension that invites the body to become both wearer and sculpture.

Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen

02.Piece B

2025
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Pull Brooch

reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled silver and clear quartz40 x 40mm

Inspired by the organic shapes of seed pods and the flowing curves of Brazilian modernist art and architecture, these brooches, designed to be worn under clothing, subtly alter the body’s silhouette. 
To anchor the hidden structure to the garment, I created a narrative of tension: one brooch “pushes” a sphere inward, the other “pulls” outward—using jarina and clear quartz to articulate this gesture.

Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
03.Piece C

2025
(contact for pricing)
Push Brooch

reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled silver, jarina seed90 x 40 mm

Inspired by the organic shapes of seed pods and the flowing curves of Brazilian modernist art and architecture, these brooches, designed to be worn under clothing, subtly alter the body’s silhouette. 
To anchor the hidden structure to the garment, I created a narrative of tension: one brooch “pushes” a sphere inward, the other “pulls” outward—using jarina and clear quartz to articulate this gesture.

Photographer: Siyan Shen

Photographer: Siyan Shen
Piece D

2025
(contact for pricing)
Jacarandá Bracelet

reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled gold, Brazilian emerald
75 x 60 mm

The wood is pressed and bound — shaped by tension, closed by a stone. A gesture of holding history close to the body.

 
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
05.Piece E

2025
(contact for pricing)
Jarina Ring

Jarina seed, recycled gold
30 x 30 mm

Hand-carved from an Amazonian seed harvested sustainably by local communities, the form draws on the aesthetics of binding and restraint.
The ring explores what it means to bind material to the body—transforming both shape and meaning in an act of cultural reclamation.


Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen.
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
06.Piece F

2025
(contact for pricing)
Pushed Earrings

recycled silver, Brazilian emerald, Jarina seed
60 x 40mm


Hand-carved jarina. Each earring wraps around the ear in its own way — asymmetrical forms that share a gesture of pressure and presence. The silver and jarina both push inward, creating tension between softness and structure, surface and depth.
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
07.Piece G

2025
(contact for pricing)
Jarina Earrings

reclaimed Jacarandá wood, Brazilian emerald, recycled gold, Jarina seed
15 x 15mm

Hand-carved jarina bound by recycled gold wire, holding a Brazilian emerald in place. A soft material held under tension — structure through restraint.
Photographer: Siyan Shen
08.Piece H

2025
(contact for pricing)
Esmeralda Ring

recycled gold, Brazilian emeralds, clear quartz
20 x 20mm

This sculptural ring draws inspiration from the organic contours of seedpods, evoking a sense of growth and transformation. 
At its center, a clear quartz cabochon rests like a droplet of water or a magnifying lens, subtly enlarging the landscape of the skin beneath it.