Famous ring designers
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Andrew Grima
Anglo-Italian designer
Andrew Grima (31 May 1921 – 26 December 2007)[1] was an Anglo-Italian designer who became known as the doyen of modern jewellery design in Britain.
Grima was born in Rome to Italian-Maltese parents and raised in London, where he attended Salesian College, Battersea and St Joseph's College, Upper Norwood. He later studied mechanical engineering at the University of Nottingham. The family was artistic and creative: his father was an embroidery designer and Grima's brothers became architects, helping design his London showroom in 1966.[2]
Grima joined the Royal Engineers, serving in Burma in World War II with the 7th Indian Division of the British Army.[3]
Jeweller
After the war, he started work in his father-in-law's jewellery firm in London, Haller Jewellery Company Limited (H.J. Co) initially in the accounts department, before moving into design.
He became the foremost modern jewellery designer in the West End of London in the 1960s and 1970s, selling designs from his exclusive gallery at 80 J
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Joseph Grima
In this respect, it is crucial to point out that Grima is a protagonist of the international circuit of architecture biennales and triennales, that over the last decade has witnessed a relentless multiplication of events across each and every continent. Just to mention a few examples, in 2012 Grima was the co-director of the first Istanbul Design Biennale, where he curated Adhocracy, one of its two main exhibitions. He is also to be credited with Space Caviar for the provocative 2014 Kortrijk Biennale Interieur, dedicated to The Home Does Not Exist. That same year, his installation 99 Dom-ino, also designed with Space Caviar, was included in the Monditalia section of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Furthermore, in 2015 he was co-curator with Sarah Herda of the first Chicago Architecture Biennale, entitled The State of Art and Architecture, that was the largest event of its kind ever held in North America at the time.
A regular presence at the main temporary exhibitions of contemporary archit
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I am Jimmy Grima, a multi-disciplinary artist-researcher between Amsterdam and Malta and a member of the rubberbodies collective, an independent theatre and art group I co-founded in Malta in 2009. My artistic research revolves primarily around the politics of memory and remembrance, often focusing on the cultural traditions and the embodied and situated knowledge of micro-communities. For this reason, I am interested in archival practices, historiographies, and the relationship between the marginal and the mainstream. My work manifests as drawings, graphics, texts, multimedia installations, theatrical productions, and other events. I am currently developing The School of Winds and Waves (festival Oerol, over het ij, Amsterdam and StrandLAB in Almere) and carrying out a PhD research project at the University of Malta consisting of a re-analysis of early 20th century Maltese theatre through a decolonial lens.
After graduating with a Master’s in Theatre Curation from Das Arts Amsterdam in 2021, I was awarded the 3Package Deal by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. My graduation projec
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