Katja Prins (Haarlem, the Netherlands, 1970) lives and works as a jewellery designer in Amsterdam. Graduated at the Polytechnic / Vakschool Schoonhoven (1993), and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, jewellery department (1997). As a jeweler she is working with silver, plastic, glass, porcelain and polyurethane rubber, creating unique pieces. She was a guest lecturer at Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Konstfack Stockholm, and Institute for Precious Metal, Copenhagen.

Group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums all over Europe, USA, Japan and Russia.

Her jewellery is purchased by: Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, the Netherlands, Textile Museum Tilburg, the Netherlands, Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA, Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Germany, and Nationaal Glas Museum Leerdam, the Netherlands,

www.katjaprins.com

See also: Rituals - Bound By Blood