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.

info@helenapalmeira.com
Instagram @helenapalmeira

Awards:

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

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

Press:

Current Obssesion Magazine
Selected exhibitions:

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 Shen
Photographer: 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.

Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
03.Piece C

2025
(contact for pricing)
Push Brooch

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.

 
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
05.Piece E

2025
(contact for pricing)
Jarina Ring

Jarina seed, recycled gold
30 x 30 x 20 mm

Seed is sculpted by hand, metal part hand made.
Hand-carved from an Amazonian seed harvested sustainably by local communities, the form draws on the aesthetics of binding and restraint.


Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen.
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
06.Piece F

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 Shen
Photographer: Siyan Shen
Photographer: 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