Schrijer’s practice is characterized by the skillful adaptation and alteration of materials collected largely from second hand and recycled sources, and uses a variety of traditional and unconventional jewellery techniques that allow for her pieces to move between the jewel and the object, the flat plane and the 3rd dimension.  Her work is distinct and ingenious, weaving together wry humour, critical reflexivity and technical originality.  

My work explores different possibilities at different times, often evoking a sense of riffed nostalgia, slippage and mystery; I reference my everyday landscape and built environment, whether that be digital or physical. I am also interested in the dual, 'the jewel and the object', 'jewellery and the other' where I combine other artistic endeavours into the realm of jewellery such as printmaking, darkroom photography, sculpture, painting and holography. - Moniek Schrijer

Moniek Schrijer is a Contemporary Jewellery Artist who holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts (2012) and a Post-Graduate Diploma from Whitireia New Zealand’s Facility of Art (2013). Schrijer has developed a strong exhibition history, highlights include; The groundbreaking exhibition Non-Stick Nostalgia at the Museum of Art and Design in New York (2019) curated by Kellie Riggs and Deadweight Loss at Objectspace (2020) an exhibition which explored contemporary making at a moment when ideologies of craft, the bespoke and the handmade have returned to consumer popularity curated by Kim Paton.

During Schmuck 2016 Moniek was awarded a prestigious Herbert Hofmann Preis, and was recently a McCahon House Resident (2021) her work is held in significant private and public collections in Aotearoa and abroad.