Jeremy Isamu Irvin is an artist and educator based in Washington state, USA. He was born and raised in Hawaii, and wishes every day that he could move back. He received his BA in Economics, but developed a love for contemporary jewellery during his studies, culminating in an MFA in Jewellery and Metals Design from Central Washington University. He has had work selected for exhibitions and publications such as SNAG’s 2019 Jewellery and Metals Survey, the Museum of Arts & Design’s 2021 MAD About Jewellery, and Milano Jewellery Week’s 2022 The FaB. Jeremy’s work utilises acrylic glass alongside gold leaf and sterling silver to create Modernist-inspired jewellery.

The artist’s jewellery combines traditional silversmithing techniques with carved acrylic lenses and gold leaf. It is an investigation of process and material, exploring interactions of shadow, reflection, and refraction by manipulating how light passes through acrylic. His work references forms of water and works of twentieth-century painting, melding them with an industrial aesthetic that provides structure to the fluid and energetic forms.