Ley
Lars

Lars Ley is a Luxembourg-based jewelry artist whose work transforms everyday substances into metaphors. Self-taught and driven by experimentation, he approaches jewelry not as ornament but as a medium for storytelling and reflection. His rings are singular creations, each crafted slowly and deliberately, resisting repetition and conventional notions of beauty.

With a professional background that bridges both care and structure, Ley brings a unique perspective to his practice. He previously worked as a nurse, directly witnessing illness, vulnerability, and resilience, and today serves as logistics and fleet manager for a mobile care service. These dual experiences—intimate contact with human fragility and the responsibility of organizing systems of support—inform his artistic sensibility and material choices.

His works often incorporate unconventional substances such as steel, ash, rice, cyanoacrylate, or insect fragments like hornet remains – all ethically sourced and carefully integrated. These materials, transformed through handcraft into wearable forms, become symbols of collective fears and human memory. In his ongoing series The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Ley addresses themes of hunger, illness, and mortality with pieces that are both unsettling and intimate.

His work has been recognized at the Luxembourg Art Prize and continues to explore the fine line between adornment, testimony, and art.