Tatty Devine Artists

Tatty Devine is excited to launch the Artists Edit - a celebration of past and present creative partnerships that brings leading artists’ work as wearable art to treasure and collect.

Bringing 25 years of knowledge and expertise, Tatty Devine works prolifically with leading contemporary and historical artists on jewellery collections that bring their ideas from gallery walls straight into your jewellery box. The Artists edit is shining a light on some of our favourite collaborations, including Grayson Perry, Rachel Maclean, Leigh Bowery, Morag Myerscough and Jeremy Deller, with even more coming soon.

Original Alan Measles Brooch, Tatty Devine x Grayson Perry, 2025

Art has always been one of the key inspirations behind our work; Harriet and I met at the Chelsea School of Art, where we studied painting. Surrounded by inspiring artist tutors and visiting lecturers such as Chris Ofili, Mali Morris, Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Roger Ackling, alongside contemporaries Monster Chetwynd, Tai Shani and Rana Begum. One of the first articles about us was in the Telegraph in 2000, and Melanie Rickie compared us to Gilbert and George, commenting on how art and life were so intertwined for us. We went on to collaborate with Gilbert and George in 2007 for their first major retrospective, some of these pieces will become available again at the Gilbert and George Centre alongside their exhibition ‘DEATH HOPE LIFE FEAR…’

Gilbert and George are not the only artists we have worked with over the last 25 years. Rob Ryan, Mark Pawson, Anthony Gormley, Silvia Ziranek, Sue Kreitzman, Frida Kahlo and Jeremy Deller are all up there as firm favourites. Often, the collaboration will be sold alongside an exhibition. In 2014, Jeremy Deller got in touch as he was curating an exhibition at Modern Art Oxford about the links between William Morris and Andy Warhol. He felt Tatty Devine was the perfect collaborator to make fitting jewellery, as our practice had hints of both Warhol’s Factory and Morris’ manufacturing principles.  Wonderful things happen when you collaborate, jewellery is created that would otherwise never exist - Tatty Devine’s raison d'être.

Tatty Devine x Jeremy Deller, 2014

There are strong traditions and links between artists and jewellery. From Frida Kahlo and Annie Albers making jewellery from household objects such as paper clips and drain strainers, through to Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali working with high-end jewellers like Francois Hugo, Fulco di Verdura and Carlos Alemany. It wasn’t just Picasso and Dali who were excited by jewellery; in the 20th century, many artists used jewellery as another form of expression: Jean Cocteau, Miro, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Giacometti, Alexander Calder, to name a few.

Dali Lips Brooch, Rubies and Pearls, 1949

In Making Herself Up at the V&A in 2018, it was fascinating to see the jewellery worn by Frida Kahlo, some of it assembled by herself using milagros and ancient pre-Columbian beads. It was a form of expression; politically, culturally and as a symbol of femininity.

String of irregular Jade Beads with a central pendant carved as a fist, pre-Columbian

Louise Bourgeois extended her fascination with arachnids into jewellery with a Spider Brooch in 2005. “Spiders are helpful and protective, like my mother." and these brooches were made by her own fair hands.

Spider Brooch, Louise Bourgeois, 2005

In 1986, Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop in downtown Manhattan. This boutique enabled his work to be accessible to all in many forms, including jewellery.

Golden Baby Brooch, Keith Haring,1989

In 2005, Jeff Koons collaborated with Stella McCartney to appropriate his well-known Rabbit- a 1986 series of three identical stainless steel sculptures, as a piece of jewellery in platinum, which was a series of 50.

"Rabbit" Pendant, Jeff Koons, 2005-2009

Today, Tatty Devine presents much of their jewellery in the form of collaborations, allowing their customers to access and collect wearable art by some of their favourite artists. All handmade by a skilled, female team at their studio in Kent and designed and developed closely with the artists, being true to and extending the artist's vision. When the jewellery is not being worn, it can adorn their walls and dressing tables. Artworks that you’re actually allowed to touch and wear!

Discover our art-inspired jewellery online and in-store now.

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