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©Mariana Schwedt

Mariana Schwedt Vellano

  • Tiska Joyas
  • Jewellery maker
  • Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Rising Star
Mariana Schwedt Vellano Jewellery maker
Contact
Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+598 92082537
©Caro Ramponi

For the joy of making small items

  • • Mariana creates jewellery with passion for detail
  • • Her studio Tiska Joyas has been in operation since 2016
  • • In 2020 she won one of the National Craft Awards of Uruguay

Encouraged by her mother, Mariana Schwedt attended sculpture workshops in her youth, where she found a place to express herself through art. After graduating from Industrial Design, she realised that she wanted to focus on manual design. "The word 'industrial' was too loud to me and I felt that the personal imprint of the creator would get lost along the way," says Mariana. Instead, she trained as a jeweller, combining design and handmaking small pieces of portable art. "I have always loved anything that is about making small pieces and involves fine motor skills. I love the timeless value of these small objects, pieces that transcend generations, not only with material value but with a great emotional value,” says Mariana. “I feel that I generate magic, an object with a lot of symbolic and energetic charge, a small amulet, a talisman."

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Works

  • ©Mariana Schwedt
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  • ©Mariana Schwedt
Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
Silver and colour earrings

These are triangular earrings with slightly convex sides. The design reveals two blue and one light blue sections. These colours are achieved by ground-up lapis lazuli stone.

Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
Three metals necklace

This is a necklace composed of three parts. The concave circular copper medal, a flat alpaca bar with a small convex bronze circle at the end, and three parallel lines which provide the base of the necklace.

Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
Hexa necklace

This is a necklace composed of a thin chain with two hollow hexagons of different sizes (large and small) at each end. The end of the chain with the larger hexagon passes through the smaller hexagon.

Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
Trap ring

This is a ring composed of two sections. One part has a very rough and shiny texture, with a glitter effect. The other is smooth and mirrored and has very small perforations all over the surface.

Photo: ©Mariana Schwedt
Trex satin flange

This pendant is composed of several intertwined steel chords. It has two silver pieces in the shape of a concave triangle. One of the pieces is very small, rough textured and shiny. The other is large with a texture of overlapping curved lines and a satin finish.

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