Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery : A Passion for Jewellery

Traces the history of Electrum Gallery, a pre-eminent platform devoted to art jewellery and a major creative force, as well as the life of Barbara Cartlidge - artist, gallery director, curator and author.

The extraordinary life of Barbara Cartlidge (b. 1922 in Berlin) - influential gallerist, curator, jewelry artist and author - together with the history of her legendary Electrum Gallery, which she founded in 1971 with Ralph Turner in London, are documented for the first time in a single publication. Pioneers and colleagues as well as around seventy internationally renowned artists of the gallery all have their say and, in anecdotes and recollections, countless illustrations and hitherto unpublished images, tell of a strong and resolute woman and the significance of her gallery as a promoter and platform for the understanding of contemporary art jewelry. Particular attention is paid to the life of Barbara Cartlidge, who fled from Germany in 1938. For over fifty years she was a driving force in what she described as the ''the brotherhood of jewelers who make modern and thought-provoking jewelry all over the world''.