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	Biography Mette Vivelsted was educated as goldsmith in the Netherlands and as jewellery designer at the Institute for Fine Metals in Copenhagen. She is established with gallery and workshop in the centre of Aarhus, where she works on her jewellery series and unique pieces. "My work with design and unique pieces go hand-in-hand. The unique pieces serve as inspiration for more design oriented pieces and vice versa. I convert my impressions into expressions which come to life during intuitive, compositional play, but at the same time I keep my eye on the overall theme that has inspired me. I'm preoccupied with jewellery as a modern means of communication and work thematically with concepts such as "sentimental value" and our relation to that. I add to my jewellery an element of the recognisable as well as elements of the less recognisable and am as such trying to create a field of tension in my work which entices the viewer or wearer to think both forwards and backwards in time. I want my jewellery to create curiosity, raise questions, create emotions and evoke reflection, which is why I mix recognisable elements (grandmother's pearls, vintage silver spoons, Royal Copenhagen porcelain, child's first tooth, etc.) with new concepts such as Japanese pop culture, thus giving new meaning to things which have lost their original meaning. As a means to obtain this effect I use porcelain, felt, lacquer, antiques, silk, nylon, corals, pebbles, gold and silver; either to emphasise a sentiment or as the leading element in a theme." Mette Vivelsted's successful history encompasses a number of exhibitions in and outside of Denmark. Study tours to Tokyo and Barcelona among others and a stay at a workshop in New York. Among the recognition she has received for her jewellery are a number of prizes and commissions from the Danish Arts Foundation.