Ella Bonomi
Ella Bonomi is a Nigerian designer and jeweller based in London. Her work explores duality through form, texture and movement. With a background in illustration and motion design, her practice is rooted in observation and storytelling — translating fleeting gestures and contrasts into sculptural, wearable pieces.
Working primarily through wax carving and metal casting, each form is shaped intuitively by hand. This process allows fluid, organic movements to be captured and held in solid metal, creating pieces that feel alive in their stillness. Her work often sits between opposites — solid and fluid, organic and constructed, smooth and textured — holding moments of tension and balance.
Ella’s path into jewellery began through an elective in metalsmithing while studying communication design and illustration in the United States. After several years working in the media industry, including roles in motion graphics and design at companies such as Paramount and BBC News, she returned to making following a formative encounter with glassmaking on Murano island in Venice.
She went on to develop her practice at Morley College, supported by the De Beers Group Scholarship. Her work has since been recognised with two Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council Awards (2025, 2026), and she was selected for the Goldsmiths’ Centre Spotlighting Getting Started exhibition in 2026. Her work continues to evolve through an ongoing exploration of form, movement and texture.
