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, and 25/26 Sarabande Resident, 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.
Collect Art Fair
at Somerset House
London 26 Feb - 01 March 2026
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
(re)Weaving Amazônia
London Climate Action Week at 79-81 Coal Drops Yard
London Curated by Lilian Pacce 24-29 June 2025
This collection is a limited edition series, for purchases please contact directly via e-mail info@helenapalmeira.com
01.Piece A 2025
(contact for pricing)
Jacarandá Choker
reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled gold
110 x 120 x 30mm
Salvaged wood is filed by hand, metal part hand made. The rich texture of the wood contrasts with its minimal structure, creating a quiet tension that invites the body to become both wearer and sculpture.
Photographer: Siyan ShenPhotographer: Siyan Shen
02.Piece B 2025
(contact for pricing)Pull Brooch
reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled silver and clear quartz40 x 40 x 20mm
Salvaged wood part is filed by hand, metal part hand made.
This brooch is part of a set of two, they are designed to be worn under clothing, subtly altering the body’s silhouette. To anchor the hidden structure to the garment, there’s a narrative of tension: one brooch “pushes” a sphere inward, the other “pulls” outward, using jarina and clear quartz to articulate this gesture.
reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled silver, jarina seed
90 x 40 x 15mm
Salvaged wood part is filed by hand, metal part hand made.
This brooch is part of a set of two, they are designed to be worn under clothing, subtly altering the body’s silhouette. To anchor the hidden structure to the garment, there’s a narrative of tension: one brooch “pushes” a sphere inward, the other “pulls” outward, using jarina and clear quartz to articulate this gesture.
Photographer: Siyan Shen Photographer: Siyan Shen
Piece D
2025 (contact for pricing) Jacarandá Bracelet
reclaimed Jacarandá wood, recycled gold, Brazilian emerald
75 x 60 x 30mm
Salvaged wood part is filed by hand, metal part hand made.
The wood is bound, shaped by tension, closed by an emerald.
A gesture of holding history close to the body.
2025 (available at House of Bandits Gallery)Pushed Earrings
recycled silver, Brazilian emerald, Jarina seed
60 x 40 x 15mm
Seed is sculpted by hand, metal part hand carved from wax and casted.
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. Photographer: Siyan ShenPhotographer: Siyan ShenPhotographer: Siyan Shen
07.Piece G
2025 (contact for pricing)Jarina Earrings
reclaimed Jacarandá wood, Brazilian emerald, recycled gold, Jarina seed 15 x 15 x 10mm
Seed is sculpted by hand, metal part hand made.
Hand-carved jarina bound by recycled gold wire, holding a Brazilian emerald in place. Photographer: Siyan Shen
08.Piece H
2025 (contact for pricing)Esmeralda Ring
recycled gold, Brazilian emeralds, clear quartz
20 x 20 x 15mm