About Pikaya
Pinar Kaya De Biasio designs and hand-makes contemporary jewellery from her shared studio in Shoreditch, London.
She grew up in a border town of eastern Turkey at the crossroad of ancient trade routes in a family of traditional jewellers who considered this occupation as “men’s job” and through her work she is challenging that belief.
After a degree and master’s in psychology and the first part of her career in this field, Pinar decided to go back to her roots and explore her family passion for jewellery, training at Morley College in London. She has come to realise that this passion runs in her blood, and she see the things with the eye of a jeweller.
Pinar’s pieces are exhibited in the UK and internationally, most recently at the MAD About Jewelery, hosted by The Museum of Arts and Design, New York and Elements Festival of Jewellery, Silver & Gold, in Edinburgh.
Pinar is determined to build a conscious brand which she can be proud of. Pinar is focused on reducing the impact of her activity by producing small batches of jewellery, through the usage of recycled materials and packaging to the extent possible and by cooperating with small family businesses whenever she needs to outsource a service, such as gold plating.
Pinar is a proud advocate for slow fashion movement and aiming to design and produce timeless, good quality pieces which will stay for generations in the family.
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Elements Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburg, October 2023
MAD About Jewelry, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, 25th - 29th April
Spotlighting Getting Started, Goldsmiths' Centre, 2 March-26 April, 2023
Pots, Prints, Jewellery Exhibition, Atelier Beside the Sea, Brighton, December, 2022
The Drops, Curated by Hemingway Design, December, 2022
Craft Festival, Cheltenham Town Hall, November, 2022
Elements Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburg, October 2022
HANDMADE Oxford, The International Contemporary Arts Festival, June, 2022
Autor, International Contemporary Jewelery Fair, Bucharest, May, 2022
Made Brighton, The Design and Craft Fair, November, 2021
The London Artisan, December, 2021The Winter Jewellery Show, The Craft Centre & Design Gallery Leeds, November, 2021
The Re-Incarnation of Andy Warhol, At Work Gallery, London, 2020
Retrospective, joint exhibition with Clare Crines, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, 2019
Around the World in 80 Days, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, 2019 (Charity Exhibition to empower women in construction industry).