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Piece A – Jacarandá Choker
Piece B – Pull Brooch
Piece C – Push Brooch
Piece D – Jacarandá Bracelet
Piece E – Jarina Ring
Piece F – Pushed Earrings
Piece G – Jarina Earrings
Piece H – Esmeralda Ring

        

Helena Palmeira is a London-based Brazilian artist and designer whose practice explores materiality as a carrier of memory. An MA graduate from Central Saint Martins, she creates sculptural jewelelry pieces that integrate historically and culturally significant materials, such as Amazonian seeds, native woods, and precious stones, to preserve and re-activate narratives embedded in their origins.
Her current body of work, Confluência, draws on Brazilian modernism and the aesthetics of binding as both visual language and conceptual metaphor. Through tension, connection, and transformation, she investigates how jewellery can articulate personal and collective histories, while proposing adornment as a process of transformation.
Helena’s work has been exhibited in (re)Weaving Amazonia during London Climate Action Week and showcased by Blackdot Gallery at London Design Festival, where she received the Public’s Choice Award. Her practice is also featured in 2025 Brazil Jewellery Week’s publication highlighting Latin American designers.
Rooted in storytelling and material research, Helena approaches jewellery as a space for reflection, cultural reclamation and transformation.


Helena Palmeira
info@helenapalmeira.com
Instagram @estudiohelenapalmeira
Awards:

Public’s Choice Award at Blackdot Gallery
19 September 2025 London Design Festival

Nominated for Dinny Hall New Jewellery
Designer of the Year Award at New Designers

Press:

Current Obssesion MagazineExhibitions:

Brazil Jewelry Week
São Paulo
28 November 2025

The Living Trace
by Cluster Contemporary Jewellery
79 Endell St., Covent Garden
London
21-23 November 2025

Milano Jewelry Week
Palazzo Bovara, Corso Venezia, 51
Milan
18-20 October 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

(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

06.Piece F

2025
(contact for pricing) Pushed Earrings

recycled silver, Brazilian emerald, Jarina seed
60 x 40 x 15mm


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.