Jewellery designer Elin Zoenso

I knew early on that art would be my path. So at 16, I left home to study at the Bildgymnasiet in Nässjö. But jewelry was not something I had in mind, and it was a coincidence that I got a summer job with a skilled goldsmith. She taught me the basics and my interest was piqued. During some following years I studied at Västerås Art School, Jewelry Design at Nyckelviksskolan in Stockholm and a number of independent design courses through Borås University. I also studied Graphic Illustration and Design via Bergs in Stockholm.

In 2003 I started Elindesign Jewellery, after a few years as an employed designer. I built my own jewelry collections, freelanced as an illustrator for various magazines and worked as a silversmithing teacher in the evenings.
A few years later, I wanted to deepen my knowledge further and studied at the Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence, Italy. In the fourth year I studied with my own tutor in Munich.
After graduation, I exhibited my jewelry art around the world and opened my own shop, which today is a stone’s throw from Avenyn and Götaplatsen in Gothenburg.

Education and training

Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florens Italien

Contemporary jewelry art

University of Borås and Umeå University

Stand-alone courses in fashion and design

Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm

Graphic design and illustration

Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm

Jewellery design

Västerås Art School, Västerås

Painting/sculpture

Workshops
shorter courses

Peter Skubic, jewelry art

Iris Eischenberg, jewelry art

Giovanni Coravaja, granulation

Scholarships

Bjuggska Fund

Estrid Ericson Foundation

J L Eklund Scholarship

Fredrika Bremer Scholarship

Exhibitions

"A Jewellery Circus", Göteborg

"Hnoss Extended" Konstepedemien, Gothenburg.

Gallery Workshop, Aten, Grekland

“The Pendant Show” Gallery Velvet da Vinci, USA

Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Tyskland

“ARTornamento”, Gallery Alternatives, Rom, Italien

“Summer festival” Gallery Slavik. Wien, Österrike

“Absolute Beauty” Gallery of Art in Legnica. Poland

ArteLibera, Schweiz (On tour in Europe for 6month)

Korean Craft Promotion Foundation. Seoul, Korea

Gallery Baum Paju/Heyri, Korea

“No Diamonds” Fuori Salone del Mobili, Milano, Italien

“Craft Boston” Boston USA

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