HOSTEM INVENTORY

Alice Waese is a New York-based artist and jewellery designer. With a background in fine art, sculpture, pattern drafting and draping, she works seamlessly across different mediums to create pieces that are made to be treasured for life. Hostem was her first stockist and began working with Waese in 2010, supporting her varied practice by comissioning one-off bodies of work and offering unique opportunities for creative projects. 

Waese's jewellery is inspired by the strange, delicate world she creates in her watercolour illustrations and the raw romanticism of the natural world. Her jewellery is shaped by hand and made in intricately textured sterling silver and gold, inlaid with diamonds, precious stones, and pearls. Subjects from her drawings are given life as jewels and talismanic objects, with motifs such as hands, skulls and bones appearing throughout. Her watercolour illustrations, which have been published in a series of hardback, hand-printed books, each contain a single piece of jewellery concealed within.

Alice Waese's work is available exclusively in London at Hostem Archive.