Material // substance – matter – stuff – objects – items – things/
Experimenter // alchemist – transformer – pseudoscientist/
Relentless // persistent – unyielding – uncompromising – obstinate/
Pursuer // chaser – hunter/
New // another – extra – further – different – more – other/

Margo Misiak-Orlovic is a London-based interdisciplinary artist and material[ity] researcher whose jewellery-and-metal-native practice is interested in radical dehierarchising of material relationships and engaging in experimental, collaborative, boundary-dissolving material practices. Rejecting human-imposed [power] narratives, through their material engagement Margo explores the possibilities for more peaceful, free and participatory ways of being in the world.

Through intimate and persistent engagement with their materials, enthusiastically embracing and fostering the unpredictability of the experimental processes, Margo explores the possibilities for sharing agency with the materials and challenges the boundaries which demarcate the prescriptive and oppressive relationship between the human (maker/wearer) and the beyond-human materiality constituting the world[s] around us.

 

Exhibitions

2025:

7-20 April 2025 : Radiophrenia : live art radio broadcast : Civic House, Glasgow, UK.

1-28 April 2025 : (un)polished, Artist in Residence Exhibition, School of Jewellery Birmingham City University, Birmingham.

4-7 March, 25-27 March : Goldsmith’s Craft and Design Award Exhibition – Goldsmith’ Hall, London; Assay Office, Birmingham.

12-16 March 2025 : Rocks & Locks (with Objects Beautiful Gallery) : Munich Jewellery Week 2025 : Munich, Germany.

26 Feb - 2 March : Rocks & Locks (with Objects Beautiful Gallery) : Collect Art Fair : Somerset House, London, UK. 

2024:

18-24 November 2024 : Shared Practices Exhibition : NYCJW : Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, USA.

August - October 2024 : The Marzee International Graduate Show : Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

20-23 June 2024 : RCA2024 | School of Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Exhibition : RCA Battersea, London, UK.

2 March 2024 : Dazzling Flavours | JaM Cabaret : Munich Jewellery Week 2024 : Lost Weekend, Munich, Germany.

13 February 2024 : Volume I : RCA Battersea, London, UK.

2022:

November 2022 - October 2023 : Devotional Jewellery : Oratorio San Rocco, Padua, Italy; Melting Point, Valencia; Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain.

6-10 July 2022 : New Futures : Munich Jewellery Week 2022 : Loggia Gallery, Munich, Germany.

January - April 2022 : Getting Started: Stars in the Making 2021-22 : The Goldsmiths' Centre, London, UK.

2021 and before:

8-14 March 2021 : House of Flowers : Munich Jewellery Week 2021 : online.

March - November 2020 : Inspired by Warhol : At Work Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, London, UK.

November 2019 - 2021: Connections/Connessioni : Goldsmith's Centre, London; The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK; Italy.

21 September - 31 October 2019 : Collectiva Meeting '19 : Collective Gallery, Porto, Portugal.

20 September - 20 October 2019 : CONTROLS / STRL + S, Art Jewelry Night of Budapest : Ráth György Villa/Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary.

10-12 July 2018: City Lit Art Show : SAFEHOUSE 2, London, UK.

28 June - 1 July 2018 : City Lit Jewellery Exhibition : Red Gallery, Rivington Street, London, UK.

15 June - 14 July 2018 : Polished : Morley College, London, UK.

9 June - 21 July 2018 : ACJ Choice: Summer : New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, UK.

8 January - 17 February 2018 : Lustre : Morley College, London, UK.

16 June - 24 July 2017 : Divergence : Morley College, London, UK.

March 2016 : MADE 2016 Drawing Painting Sculpture : Morley College, London, UK.

 Awards

2024 : Graham Hughes Award for an Outstanding Student in Jewellery and Metal (RCA).

2023 : Behrens Foundation Bursary.

2023 : RCA Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship.

2021 : Selected for The Goldsmiths' Centre Spotlighting Programme.

2020 : GIA Scholarship for Comprehensive CAD/CAM for Jewelry course, Gemological Institute of America (GIA), London.

 Residencies

2024-2025 : Artist in Residence, School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University.

2022 : Designing and Storytelling micro residency & workshop, LV21, Gravesend.

2022 : CraftHub Residency, University of Wales Trinity Saint David/Swansea College of Art.

2018/2019 : AA2A Artist Residency : School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Education 

2023-2024 : MA Jewellery and Metal, Royal College of Art, London.

2016-2017 : Jewellery Certificate Level 2, Morley College, London.

2007-2010 : BA Applied Translation and Communications, London Metropolitan University, London.

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