Sophie Rose is a German jewellery designer and artist living and working in Denmark.
At her workshop minimalistic and simple forms are turned into expressionist and sculptural jewellery. Besides handcrafting her own collections and one-of-a-kind jewellery, she is using outdated and found materials and objects to create wearable art jewellery. Sophie is holding a Master degree in linguistics and anthropology and only later in her career she took her passion for creating jewellery to the next level by studying Jewellery Design at Art College Engelsholm Højskole (DK) in 2016.
Since 2019 Sophie has been participating in exhibitions in Denmark, among others at Galleri Bærbart in Copenhagen.
Sophie is dedicated to ethical jewellery practices and doing as little harm to our environment as possible, is the most important to her. Therefor all her jewellery pieces are made of either natural or already existing materials, such as recycled gold and silver, recut gemstones or other found and reused materials.
“I am passionate about traditional craftsmanship, ethical jewellery practices and a contemporary jewellery approach. By creating pieces of jewellery combining precious and non-precious materials and traditional craft practices, I attempt to expand the concept of ‘the beautiful and the traditional’ by contrasts and surprises: precious metals with blank polished surfaces, glossy enamel and glimmering gold leaf details on the one hand, and the use of found ‘valueless’ objects, optical illusions or gemstones in untraditional vice versa settings, on the other hand. My pieces of jewellery tell the story of materials, functions and opposites – mysterious, repelling and edgy, but at the same time smooth, colourful and shimmering.”
— Sophie Rose
Recycled.
All my jewellery pieces are made of either natural or reused materials, recycled precious metals and - yes! - recut gemstones. I buy all my silver and gold from the Nordic Urban Mining project which extracts and refines precious metals from our (mostly electronic) waste, and reused/recut gemstones from a German gemstones cutting company. Doing as little harm to our environment as possible is the most important to me!
Handmade.
I design and handcraft every piece of jewellery in my studio located on the countryside in the beautiful surroundings of Middle Jutland, Denmark. Simple geometric forms are turned into sculptural jewellery pieces crafted in recycled precious metals with strong contrasts in surfaces, forms and colours, achieved by oxidising, gilding or enamelling the metal and setting gemstones in untraditional settings.
Art.
In my artistic practice I want to give new life to found objects and tell their stories, by creating pieces of art jewellery combining these seemingly valueless objects with other (precious and non-precious) materials. By this I want to pay homage to ordinary materials and give the possibility to discover and perceive the beauty hidden inside “the scrap”.
