Helena Palmeira

Helena Palmeira is a Brazilian artist and designer whose practice explores materiality as a carrier of memory. Helena creates sculptural jewellery pieces that integrate historically and culturally significant materials, such as Amazonian seeds, native woods, and precious stones, to preserve and reactivate narratives embedded in their origins. Rooted in storytelling and material research, Helena approaches jewellery as a space for reflection, cultural reclamation and transformation. 

Her current body of work, Confluência, draws on Brazilian modernism and the aesthetics of binding as both visual language and conceptual metaphor. Through tension, connection, and transformation, she investigates how jewellery can articulate personal and collective histories, while proposing adornment as a process of transformation.