This ring from Virginia Sprague is made in 9ct yellow gold, featuring her signature organic texture. The face of the ring is rectangular with organic shapes in the negative spaces, and 5 light teal sapphires set across the gold. The shank is flat, with a soft curve for comfort, and finished to a beautiful polish.
Size: L 1/2
Dimensions: Face of the ring approx 11mm long x 13mm wide x 2.5mm thick. Shank approx 2mm wide x 2mm thick.
Stones: x5 light teal round brilliant cut sapphires.
Materials: 9ct yellow gold, sapphire
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.
