This ring from Virginia Sprague is made in 9ct yellow gold, with an eye-catching yellow sapphire and six small diamonds. The ring features an organic circular shape, with a round brilliant cut, yellow sapphire set into the centre. From this, six sections radiate outwards like the sun, with a diamond set in each section. The shank of the band is softly rounded, and has a subtle texture with a beautiful shine.
Size: M
Dimensions: Face of the ring approx 10.6mm diameter x 3mm thick. Shank approx 1.6mm wide to 2.2mm at the shoulders. Band approx 2mm thick.
Stones: Approx 5mm round brilliant cut yellow sapphire, x6 1.4mm white diamonds
Materials: 9ct yellow gold, sapphire, diamond
Based in Bangkok, Virginia Sprague is an Australian maker of contemporary art jewellery whose practice explores our entangled relationship with the environments we inhabit. Her work is grounded in an iterative, materially led process that allows form to emerge through close engagement with place.
Working with a variety of traditional metalsmithing techniques, Virginia creates pieces that exist between the natural and the constructed, the emotional and the abstract. Through this tension, her practice reflects on environmental vulnerability, material value, and the fragile systems—both ecological and human—that shape our world. Materials are chosen not only for their physical qualities but for the narratives they carry, challenging conventional notions of preciousness, permanence, and beauty. Virginia’s work considers adornment as an intimate form of storytelling. Jewellery becomes a site through which ideas of place, connection, and responsibility are articulated, situating the body as both witness to and participant in broader environmental narratives.
Her practice seeks to reframe contemporary jewellery as a reflective gesture—one that invites attentiveness, care, and reconsideration of our relationship to the natural world. Virginia has exhibited her work in Australia and internationally.
