Noon Passama: Portraits

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Noon Passama

The series “Portraits” plays with balancing on the line between these contrasting aspects. The collection is an ongoing project. Each edition is a new representation of characters opening for interpretation, identification, and imagination.

My subjects of interest are archetypal and classical structures of jewellery and how to translate them into new contexts, where forms, materials, and techniques are applied to their broadest senses by means of conceptual approaches.


About Noon Passama:
Born and educated in Thailand, Noon Passama moved to the Netherlands in 2007, where she graduated in Jewellery Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2010.

She won the Emerging Artist Award in 2012, the Art Jewelry Forum, USA. The Rietveld Prize Winner Award 2010 (Award GRA) for Applied Art of Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL. The Prize Winner Marzee Prijs 2010 Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NL.

Immediately after graduation, Passama had her solo presentation at Galerie Ra (Amsterdam). Besides her own work , collaborate with other creative such as fashion designers Capara, designing a piece which won the 2012 Emerging Artist Award awarded by AJF (Art Jewelry Forum). Noon collaborates with artists / photographers Severafrahm. One of his creations, a necklace, has been used in Rihanna's "Te amo" video clip.


Her works are in several collections:
Stedelijk Museum 's- Hertogenbosch - Works: Extra Buttons series (2011) Fat and Chain # 1 (2012)
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - Work: Koala Brooch (from the final year collection at GRA, 2010)
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn - Work: Bird Brooch (from the final year collection at GRA, 2010)
All Zover Uitvaartmuseum Nederlands - Work: Skull bracelet (2009)

Her work has been published in several prestigious publications:
Glamcult , September 2013, Issue 7
Current Obsession magazine , Issue 1
Interviewed by Design.nl magazine of Premsela
Interviewed by Surface Magazine, February 2012, issue 92
Zoo Magazine, winter issue 2011/2012
A Girl 's Best Friend book , Gestalten Publisher
Interviewed by Wallpaper magazine ( Thai Edition) , May 2011
Interviewed by The Bangkok Post 's Magazine, 27th January 2011 , issue 180
On Jewellery , Art Publisher Arnoldsche
Modern Jewelry Collection Online Magazine of Art Aurea