Tarja Tuupanen works as a jewelry artist, creating three-dimensional works that engage with the body and its surrounding environment within the contexts of jewelry art, industrial arts, and contemporary art. Stone, in various forms, has dominated her work for over 20 years. For Tuupanen, stone is a material to be worked with, part of the finished stone object, or dust. The deep relationship with the material, its understanding, the process of handcrafting, and the theme are the balanced tripod of her practice.

Brooch
Used marble objects, brass
2017

Brooch
Used marble objects, brass
2017

About Ornament XXI
Necklace
Alabaster, marble, thread
2022

Pulla
Object, marble dust
2017
The sanctity of everyday life and the importance of daily tasks. Everyday skills and habits in the kitchen and the artist’s studio. A bun made from stone dust.

About Ornament V
Brooch
Marble, brass
2020

Photographs Lassi Rinno