Jet McQuiston is an artist and designer creating meaningful, beautifully made, bold, modern-day heirlooms. Jet uses jewellery to eternalise information such family histories and love stories as seen in her Eternal Worlds bespoke commission rings as well as important ideas like historical narratives or endangered flora.

 

Jet is interested in the power of signs, symbols and semiotics, exploring the ways that jewellery can hold meaning allegorically via symbology and physically with the use of contemporary processes. These were key areas of focus on her MA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins.

 

Jet sees jewels as the perfect setting to store data: a tiny vessel that if made carefully can communicate for thousands of years. All Jet’s jewellery is designed, prepped and finished by her as well as being embellished by expert craftspeople- one of the most skilled vitreous enamellers in Britain and a master gem-setter. All Jet’s pieces are made in the UK with fully traceable materials like SIngle Mine Origin gold and responsibly mined gemstones from Sri Lanka one of her countries of origin.