Tatty Devine X Helen Chadwick

A jewellery collection for art lovers: say hello to accessories inspired by a British artist who was seminal in the history of feminist art and deemed one of the most important artists of her generation. Step into the world of sculptor and photographer, Helen Chadwick.

Designed to support the first major retrospective of her work in over 25 years, Life Pleasures at The Hepworth Wakefield, we’ve recreated her experimental works In The Kitchen, Wreaths to Pleasure, Eat Me and Ego Geometric Sum in wood and acrylic. 

Wreaths To Pleasure Brooch - Teal and Coral, £40, , also available as a pendant.

About The Artist

Born in Croydon in 1953, Chadwick became one of Britain’s most pioneering artists, known for her provocative and experimental work that challenged conventional ideas of beauty, femininity, and the body. It was at Chelsea School of Art where, like our Co-founders, Helen Chadwick began developing her distinctive style and subject matter. 

Rising to prominence in the late 1970s with the installation and performance In The Kitchen (Washing Machine), first staged during her MA. Placing her own body within traditionally female spaces, she subverted domestic stereotypes alongside three other female performers, including Silvia Ziranek, a friend and previous collaborator of Tatty Devine.

Kitchen Series Brooch, £38, available exclusively at The Hepworth Wakefield

Satirising the stereotype of women as domestic goddesses or housewives, each artist depicted gendered kitchen appliances: inspired by this groundbreaking art piece, we’ve created an exclusive washing machine brooch, available only via The Hepworth Wakefield.

Continuing to push boundaries throughout her career by using unconventional materials, including bodily fluids, meat, flowers, and household liquids, she subverted the beautiful and sensual with the grotesque. In 1987, she became one of the first women nominated for the Turner Prize and became a huge inspiration for a whole generation of young British Artists, even after her tragic death in 1996.

Inside The Collection
Eat Me Eyes

Evoking striking symbolism, we’ve reimagined Helen Chadwick’s 1991 artwork, Eat Me, into a triptych of surreal eye jewellery that aren’t what they seem at first glance. 

Eat Me Eyes Necklace, £42

Consisting of three oval, eye‑shaped lightboxes, each displaying an illuminated cibachrome transparency: take a closer look and see irises formed from bluebells and dark pools of liquid turned pupils. Representing the perception of sensuality and consumption: mix these head-turning and conversation-starting accessories with more art brooches from our cultural collaborations.

Eat Me Eyes Earrings, £28 and Eat Me Eyes Brooch, £42

Pram

Celebrate life stages in two digitally printed wooden designs plucked from a personal museum to herself, ten plywood structures that form Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum. Created by the British artist between 1982 and 1983, each object intends to free the ego and charts her growth from birth to the age of 30. Adorned with photographic images of Chadwick’s naked body, choose geometric art jewellery that's perfect for your next gallery visit.

Pram Brooch, £48 and Pram Pendant, £58

Wreaths To Pleasure

Honour the high point of Helen Chadwick’s career with her most iconic art series turned collectable colourful brooches, pendants and earrings. 

Wreaths To Pleasure Earrings, £28

First ever seen at the Serpentine Gallery in 1994, her Wreaths To Pleasure series explores identity, sexuality and experience through a refocused gaze that looks inwards: each design is plucked from thirteen circular photographs of ‘wreaths’ made of organic matter within household fluids. Digitally printed on transparent acrylic, before being carefully backed against colour-pop shades, more is more with these designs. Collect them all. 

Wreaths To Pleasure Pendant - Green, £30, also available as a brooch, and Wreaths To Pleasure Brooch - Yellow, £40

Shop our upcoming artist collaboration, Tatty Devine X Helen Chadwick, online and in our Covent Garden store from 12:15 PM on Tuesday, 24th June 2025.

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