Emily Söderberg is a Swedish designer and maker who works between London and New York City. She studied industrial design in New York before obtaining a degree in Fine Arts, with a focus on jewellery, from the Pratt Institute. An avid collector of natural objects, her work is heavily influenced by her experiences with the natural world and the details of lifeforms found within it. Her work is primarily jewellery, but she also creates small sculptural pieces and table-top objects.
Emily Söderberg
Emily’s work is built from explorations of wildlife found in particularly biodiverse ecosystems. She selects specific species for their captivating quality and translates them into metal forms that are suspended in motion. Emily aims to capture the subtleties and grace of the lines and shapes created by the natural world. Each piece stands as its own distinct sculpture yet also exists as part of a larger body of work that forms a delicately balanced representation of an entire ecosystem.
Off the northwest coast of Panama, about nine miles from the mainland, rests a small cluster of mangrove trees. Woven tightly together, they form a tiny stand-alone island that is almost perfectly circular. They seem still and stoic, only gently swaying in the breeze. Their branches swing down towards the surface where the leaf line cuts off with expert precision, hovering just above the ripples in the water. Their roots reach from their trunks down into the water, themselves branching off into hundreds of singular columns. If you follow these roots down and dip below the surface you find a realm that is different from the quiet world of the shallow canopy. For the mangroves are guardians of a nursery bursting with life. Juvenile fish in the hundreds whip through the trees, past delicate crabs and soft corals that make their home on the roots that shoot into the sand amongst the seagrass. Sheltered by this cluster of trees, the fish and other fragile lifeforms can grow safely. Theirs is a world filled with astounding biodiversity and wonder, the kind of place that seems almost a dream to someone whose life is centred on exploring and loving and creating from the natural world.
Medium:
Brass and Sterling Silver
Medium:
Sterling Silver
Medium:
Sterling Silver