Creator Bio
Bianca Eshel-Gershuni
1932–2020
Bulgarian-born Bianca Eshel-Gershuni immigrated to Palestine in 1939. A self-taught jewelry maker who creates pieces with unusual combinations of materials such as plastic, glass, and feathers, in the 1970s she also began producing sculpture and body decorations. Eshel-Gershuni taught in the department of metalwork and jewelry at Bezalel in Jerusalem (1977–1986) and is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including Bank Discount Prize (Israel Museum, 1993).
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Feast in Paradise, No. 2
In the early 1980s, Eshel-Gershuni began making what she called “fetishes” or “impossible jewelry,” transferring her skills as a jewelry-maker to sculpture. She combined expensive materials like gold…