HEATHER GUIDERO
Made to Move: The Beauty of Wearable Sculpture
Heather Guidero’s path into jewelry is rooted in discipline, curiosity, and a deep respect for making. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a BFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing, before moving to New York City to apprentice as a goldsmith with Reinstein/Ross. Working within an exacting studio environment, she honed her bench skills and developed a lasting appreciation for precision, material, and process.
In 2005, Heather returned to Rhode Island to begin developing her own collections. For a number of years, she balanced her studio practice alongside freelance design work and an extensive teaching career, working everywhere from community art centers to RISD itself. Over time, her focus shifted fully toward her own work, and Heather Guidero Jewelry became her sole pursuit.
Process sits at the heart of Heather’s practice. Each piece begins with drawing, shapes sketched and refined until they feel resolved, before being translated into metal through a combination of casting, stamping, and hand fabrication.
She is particularly interested in how jewelry behaves once it leaves the bench, how it shifts, slides, and responds to the body in motion. Many designs articulate or pivot, subtly changing as they are worn, revealing new relationships between form and space.
Nearly two decades on, the brand is represented by more than 35 galleries and independent retailers across the United States and Europe. Her jewelry is immediately recognizable for its strong geometric language, where volume, movement, and pattern come together to create pieces that feel both intelligent and playful. Informed by modernist design principles, the work is conceived to be worn, experienced, and interacted with, transforming into small-scale sculpture on the body. Working primarily in recycled gold and silver, Heather builds each piece with restraint and precision, finishing them by hand alongside her small team in her Providence atelier. Select designs are accented with ethically sourced stones, chosen personally for their tone and character. The result is jewelry that balances structure with softness, intention with ease, and a quiet sense of joy grounded in material honesty, movement, and thoughtful design.
