Journal

The Journal

Press, exhibitions, awards and publications from the studio.

Fragmentation (2021) — crushed porcelain beads set against polished Perspex. Milano Jewellery Week 2023.

Press · October 2023

Fragments of Memory

In October 2023, VON ARA exhibited at Milano Jewellery Week — two porcelain pieces about memory, fragility, and a grandmother's quiet legacy.

Exhibition · August–September 2022

TEN-SION

A ten-jeweller group show at Stellenbosch's historic Oude Leeskamer Gallery placed Lara's art jewellery inside a bigger conversation — about identity, discipline, and the spaces we contest.

Lara Landsberg beside a plinth of her award-winning contemporary art jewellery at the South African Contemporary Jewellery Week exhibition.

Award · December 2021

The Award That Built a Studio

A Professional Category Award at the South African Contemporary Jewellery Week didn't just affirm Lara's art jewellery — the prize helped build the home studio VON ARA works from today.

Install view of the Master of Visual Arts exhibition at Gus Gallery, Stellenbosch — porcelain and mixed-media jewellery on slender concrete-topped plinths.

Exhibition · December 2021

Where VON ARA Began

Lara's Master of Visual Arts exhibition at Stellenbosch's Gus Gallery was the culmination of years of study — and the beginning of everything that became VON ARA.

A Deeper Dive (2019) — necklace of porcelain, 925 silver, cobalt-patterned and black-inked segments strung on perspex and embroidery thread, from the Oupa-letters series.

Published · June–July 2020

I Wear Letters From the Past

For the Australian craft journal Garland Magazine, Lara turned her master's research into words — an essay on re-creating her Oupa's letters as jewellery.