Emma Brooke Jewelry
I was always the one playing with her jewelry. Now, I create jewelry worth playing with.
I create inventive, kinetic jewelry with a focus on the experience of touch and play. Beyond being an avenue for my own exploration of movement and form, it's my hope that my jewelry can help remind us as adults to pause, ground, breath, and take a moment to connect with movement.
Emma Brooke Jewelry is (imagined, designed, prototyped, refined, scrapped, started-over, finished, inspired, and)... made with love, in Portland, Oregon.
jewelry for fidgeting
My love for kinetics began as a joking college "research project," collecting and documenting the nervous habits of my peers and friends, and creating jewelry in response.
Especially as students, many of us grew up with the narrative that fidgeting was "bad." That it was unprofessional, distracting, or disrespectful. But that didn't sit right with my experience of the brilliant peers around me.
My 2015 exhibition, "The Fidgets," aimed to challenge this narrative, by reclaiming fidgeting, grounding, stimming, and playfulness as celebrated facets of our expression and identity.
Years later, I continued to find myself drawn to kinetics in sculpture, machinery and jewelry. My designs are an exploration of engineering, movement, and play.
Emma Brooke
Hey! I'm Emma, the hands behind the hammers at EBJ. Part mad scientist, part artist, I discovered a space where my passions could meet through metalsmithing.
I always joke that I was "supposed to" be an engineer, but found art instead. The truth is, my heart has always spanned both worlds. With a background in BioEngineering and Fine Art, I bring an inventive, curious wonder into my studio practice with every design.
Forever a tinkerer, a builder, a creative, I thrive finding inventive approaches to the technical challenges of kinetic jewelry making.
