My jewellery designs are intricately handmade contemporary pieces. I love working with glass or silver beads threaded with thin nylon thread. This method of making reminds me of our relationship to the whole, with everything linked and tight to each other. My Turkish heritage and European upbringing inspire me, as do my recent years living in Australia. My designs explore natural shapes, sacred geometric patterns and structures, and cultural and spiritual symbols.

Each piece's simplicity, lightness and light-and-shadow plays explore the mathematics of nature, electron microscope photography, and Platonic solids, which are geometric representations of the five elements that make up the material world.

My design philosophy is to create meaningful, delicate, simple, and beautiful objects.

“Beads encapsulate the past, including history, technology, abstract thinking, sensibility, art, and superstition. They provide a window into the past that few other artifact do”. Jamey D. Allen, in Hemachandra, R. and Carren, R. 2011. Masters Polymer Clay: major works by leading artists.



oya@oyademirbilek.com