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
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.