Ella Gorasia is a contemporary jeweller who combines traditional jewellery making techniques with metal clay to create handmade pieces that explore transformation, resilience, and renewal inspired by the world around us. A current thread of her work fossilises natural forms in metal, simultaneously preserving moments of resilient growth, decay, and renewal in wearable pieces that invite reflection on change, impermanence, and the traces we carry.

Before becoming a jeweller, Ella worked as a lawyer, legal diplomat, and academic. She first studied jewellery-making through vocational courses in the margins of her day job, gradually realising that making had become more than a side interest. In 2021 she chose to leave law to concentrate fully on her practice, swapping offices and lecture halls for a slower, more hands-on creative life.
Inspired by her travels and encounters with the wider world, Ella’s broader practice also draws on architecture and geometry, exploring structures and the built environment as a way to investigate transformation and the imprints of human experience.

The Fossilised Fragility series by Ella Gorasia explores cycles of natural transformation and the embedding of memory through the use of combined textural imprints taken directly from poppy seedpods and other natural forms predominantly using metal clay. The work is inspired by the surface texture of these natural forms and with just a hint of their fragile exteriors fossilised in metal, the textual imprints hold both the memory of resilient growth and decay simultaneously. These are wearable remnants of the natural cycle, transformed into lasting artefacts of remembrance.

Through this series, Ella aims to highlight the quiet beauty of change, the poetry in delicate surfaces, and the endurance of memory captured in material form. By fossilising these fleeting moments, she hopes to create jewellery that is both tactile and contemplative, offering a space for reflection while retaining its function as a wearable object.