“Encoded Bodies: Code & Craft” jewelry showcase was held Nov 28-30, 2025 as part of Cluster London.
The wearable art in this international contemporary jewellery exhibition was selected by curator Valeria del Vacchio. The jewelry showcase was held in conjunction with Code & Craft’s wider craft exhibition featuring artists exploring the intersection of Code & Craft. The creations spanned genres and included guitars, chess sets, vases, lamp bases, and much more. Generative design merged with the handmade, and handmade merged with CAD design as described in this feature of 4 participating artists in Material Source.
Code & Craft examined the shifting terrain of material production, where computation and craft converge. In a world where code becomes matter and 3D printers sculpt in bioplastics, sand, and clay, the exhibition traces how digital tools are reshaping not only how we make—but what we make.
The site of the exhibition, one of London’s historic buildings, The Swiss Church, is a gem of an event space in Convent Garden. at 79 Endell St, London WC2H 9DY, United Kingdom
The 3 day exhibition was held
Friday 6-9 PM (details and RSVP link below)
Saturday 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday 11AM – 5 PM
OPENING NIGHT – 28 November
The free public opening was Friday 28 Nov, 6–9 pm, with live music, drinks, and artist previews. The evening introduced the exhibition, host informal conversations with participating artists, and offered an early opportunity to acquire works from the showcase.
Collecting at Code & Craft Collectors, curators, and design-focused audiences were invited to explore the collection throughout the run of the exhibition.
Code & Craft brings together contemporary artists, designers, and architects who are exploring the field of making at the intersection of computation and craft. Set within the historic Swiss Church in Covent Garden, the exhibition introduces new languages of materials and form – where digital tools become partners to hand, gesture, and embodied knowledge.
Across the showcase, works reveal how algorithms, 3D printing technologies, and bio-fabrication processes are transforming not only how we make, but what is possible to make. Clay is shaped through computational logic. Bioplastics are cast into forms that seem grown rather than built. Jewellery is generated from code, yet remains intimately connected to the body. The result is a collection of objects that sit between the digital and the earthly: precise yet expressive, experimental yet grounded in material touch.
Drawing inspiration from philosopher Yuk Hui’s thinking on technodiversity and the spiral as a recursive form, Code & Craft frames craft as an evolving process—structured, open, and continuously re-negotiated. Here, making becomes a dialogue between control and chance, memory and innovation, the handmade and the mechanic.
The Swiss Church
Covent Garden
London
United Kingdom
About the Bracelets
“Marine Fauna Meets Industrial” reflects Sherry Cordova’s design language, blending technology, aesthetics, and sustainability. Hand-drawn illustrations of microscopic marine creatures are transformed into wearable art via laser cutting and hand finishing. The work highlights the fragility and beauty of marine life and human impact. Species of plankton, important in the marine food chain and global oxygen production, are represented in thin layers of low-tarnish sterling silver and pure titanium. Industrially produced fasteners symbolize human induced changes affecting microscopic marine life. The bracelets embody Sherry’s fusion of art, precision, and respect for the environment.
Overview of the artists and statements in this exhibition
“The exhibition takes place at The Swiss Church, an architectural landmark in the heart of Covent Garden. Its vast, resonant interior offers a unique spatial context where contemporary works can be experienced with clarity, scale, and reflection. The church itself becomes part of the narrative: a site historically tied to ritual, craft, and communal gathering, now hosting objects that speculate on the future of those very practices.“
The selected artists:
Sherry Cordova (United States), Valeria Benalcazar (Educador), Casa Materia (Peru), ASEP Design (United States), Hala Ghatasheh (Jordan), Thu Huong Nguyen (Vietnam), DOT-HZM (Japan), Kudo Lab (Brasil), Marc Feldmann (Germany), Lori Steenhoek (UK), Nood Jewellery (Canada), Portal Jewellery (UK), Fernanda Povoa (Germany), RJ Weaver Studio (United States), Jacopo Calonaci (The Netherlands), Herbert Gangl (UK), Ariadne Kapelioti (Greece), Arikata Meguru (Japan).
Bracelet Dimensions
14.8 x 14 x 1.6 cm
5.8 x 5.5 x 0.6 in
inner oval: 2.5 x 3″
Materials: Low tarnish sterling silver, Stainless Steel. Two of the bracelets have pure titanium layers.
Reversible
Hand drawn, CAD modified, laser cut, hand finished
Each bracelet began as an enlarged hand drawing of a microscopic creature. Mentally deconstructing the zooplankton during the hand drawing phase, I morphed the creatures into flat layers which would rebuild as a 3D form. I used CAD software to ingest the layer drawings and further modify the designs of each layer. Individual vector files were sent to a laser cutter. Each rough-cut low tarnish sterling silver layer was hand textured and finished in the hundreds of uniquely shaped cut outs.