Stella Deligianni

Stella Deligianni was born in Thessaloniki where she studied Economics at the School of Higher Industrial Studies of Thessaloniki, Greece. A career opened in business administration but her love for art and creation led her to enter the world of jewellery.

She started studying the techniques of metalsmith and in 1985 she opened her own workshop and an art shop “PLIADES”.

She attended jewellery courses at the Mocume school of Jewellery (1989)and the training workshop “Surface in Depth” by Stefano Marketi at the “Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School” in Lucca-Tuskany (2009).
From 1990 to 1996 she was teaching metalsmith at a jewellery school (ALKI) in Thessaloniki, Greece.
She is one of the founding members of J.A.W. (Jewellery Art Workers), a group of Greek jewellery designers.

Clean lines, plastic forms, individual metal surfaces, personal techniques for joining and fussing silver with gold characterize her creations which can be found at selected galleries around Greece and abroad.

GROUP THEME EXHIBITIONS

2021 “KEEPING DISTANCES” (Gallery Attilio – Athens, Greece)
2018 “ONE WINDOW” (Gallery Attilio – Athens, Greece)
2017 “TRINITY” (Eleni Marneri Gallery – Αthens, Greece)
2017 “ONE CIRCLE” (Gallery Attilio– Athens, Greece)
2016 “EVERYTHING FLOWS” Athens Jewelry Week (Gallery Ena – Athens, Greece)
2016 “NEW TERRITORIES” (Ilias Lalaounis Museum – Athens, Greece)
2014 “SYMBOLS” J.A.W (Industrial Gas Museum – Athens, Greece
2011 “DRAMA AND THE JEWELLER” J.A.W (Michael Cacoyian- nis Foundation – Athens, Greece)
2009 “50 WOMEN-50 JEWELS” J.A.W. (for the celebration of “50 years of the Greek Film Festival” – Thessaloniki, Greece)
2008 “TRAVELING WATER” J.A.W. (Paradise baths-Bey Hamam – Thessaloniki, Greece)
2007 “WATER” (Gallery Marneri – Athens, Greece)
2007 “Greek Jewellery” (Athinaida Gallery – Athens, Greece)
1997 “26 Women Creators of Thessaloniki” (Cultural Center of the the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece)
1997 “6.000 years of Greek Jewellery” (Villa Bianca – Thessa- loniki, Greece)
1994 Exhibition – Meeting of women creators of the E.U. (Tole- do, Spain)
1993 Exhibition – Meeting of women creators of the E.U. (Os- tend, Belgium)
1992 “Greek Jewellery” (Belle Etoile – Luxembourg)
1986 “2nd Biennale for Young Artists of the Mediterranean Countries” (White Tower Museum – Thessaloniki, Greece)

PROFESSIONAL EXHIBITIONS

1989-2020 “KOSMIMA” – Thessaloniki, Greece, “GOLD-SILVER”, “GREEK JEWELRY SHOW” – Athens, Greece
2012 “INHORGENTA” – Munich, Germany

REPRESENTED BY MARIA RZEWUSKA

2018- 2019 “INHORGENTA” – Munich, Germany
2018-2019 “JCK SHOW ΤUCSON” – Tucson, U.S.A.
2018-2019 “JCK SHOW LAS VEGAS” – Las Vegas, U.S.A.
2018-2019 “HOME OF JEWELRY” – Frankfurt, Germany

the inspiration

Stella Deligianni’s creations capture her experiences. The inspiration comes from everyday life: images, situations, conversations and emotions become lines, curves, folds, angles, and they tell stories. Sometimes simple, sometimes complicated.