Ausra Bankauskaite

Ausra Bankauskaite is Lithuanian born, New York-based jewellery artist. A few years after completing her studies in Jewellery Design and Metal-smithing at Vilnius Academy of Arts, she moved to New York in 2010. Since then, she has worked for various designers and artist studios in New York and has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, Portugal, Lithuania, USA. Throughout this time, Ausra has continued working on her studio brand “aka jewellery” that officially launched in 2017. 

Ausra Bankauskaite began creating contemporary pieces that bridged the worlds of art objects and jewelry based on two concepts: structure (the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex) and functionality (the quality of being suited to serve a purpose well) which combine to create minimal aesthetic forms. Essential to Ausra’s work is the idea of harmony with the body: the jewellery must not disturb the line of the human form, instead of working with this base to enhance and extend its aesthetic lines. 

The most minimal details have a maximum function. The result is an immaculate, non-iterative design that functions as an object when not worn, like a small architectural sculpture.