A Sunday Talk with Noon Passama - Kinship

The Françoise van den Bosch Foundation is dedicated to promoting contemporary jewelry design. By supporting the field and increasing public awareness of jewellery as an art form, the foundation contributes to the development and appreciation of this discipline. 

A key initiative is the biennial Françoise van den Bosch Award, presented to an internationally leading jewellery artist with a meaningful body of work. The award ceremony is accompanied by a symposium at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where the foundation's unique jewellery collection is housed.

This year, designer Noon Passama receives the Françoise van den Bosch Award for their valuable contribution to contemporary jewelry design.

Noon Passama

With a background in jewellery design, fashion, and design, Noon Passama embodies a generation of makers who do not limit themselves to a single discipline or field. This versatility is reflected in a talent for collaboration, which lies at the heart of Passama’s practice. For OTHERSELVES, Passama collaborated with artist and illustrator Suthipa Kamyam and glyptic artist Detelina Ivanova.

Ben Lignel

Ben Lignel is a craft thinker, educator, publisher and maker living in Montreuil (France). He is guest teacher at Alchimia (Italy), HDK-Valand (Sweden), and was core faculty at the MA in Critical Craft Studies (U.S), and editor of Art Jewelry Forum. Lignel co-curated several exhibitions among which Medusa, Jewellery and Taboos (2017) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and Tableau Vivant (2018) at the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich). Ben’s current creative focus is on ceramic cookware.

Clem Edwards

Clem Edwards is ana Rotterdam-based artist from Naarm/Melbourne whose practice moves between sculpture and language. Holding space for enchantment, their work brings into conversation the possibility of the glittering dream castle and the deep knowing that the Disney story cannot exist without the labour, gender and land conditions that produced it.

Isabel Wang Pontoppidan

Isabel Wang Pontoppidan is an Danish-Chinese artist, writer and jewellery maker living in Amsterdam. Her practice is multi-pronged, combining writing, performance, research and jewellery in a variety of over-lapping cross sections. Thematically, she utilises her own life as a point of departure to investigate the interlocking of identity, culture, aesthetics and story-telling. She holds a BFA from the VAV—moving image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and an MA in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam.