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.

My work begins with a thread, in a rhythm of repetition that slowly takes form through patience and attention. Each bead, each connection, becomes a meditation on care, fragility, and the interdependence of all living things. I am drawn to the geometries that underlie both nature and human making; spirals, lattices, and branching forms that reveal continuity across scales. In my Geoms and Extinction series, glass beads become miniature architectures of light and memory, tracing geometries, the vulnerability of endangered species, and the beauty of persistence. The name Geoms, which I gave to my beaded geometric jewellery, is a combination of the words geometry and gems.

Making is an act of empathy, a way of understanding the world through the hand. In weaving these small worlds together, I hope to remind us of our shared, delicate place within the larger design of life. Each piece is a meditation in glass and thread, a reconstruction of fragile ecosystems, a gesture of care toward endangered life.



oya@oyademirbilek.com