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.
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
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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.