Bramble Lee Pryde is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, goldsmith, and founder of Subject Object. Their work moves across fine jewellery, sculpture, installation, sound, object-making, and participatory systems, using objects to examine how humans create meaning, ritual, companionship, and structure in uncertain times.

Trained in fine arts, high craft, design, formation, and metalsmithing, Bramble approaches jewellery as more than adornment. Their practice questions inherited ideas of preciousness, luxury, permanence, and value, especially the narrow hierarchy that places gold, diamonds, and traditional fine jewellery above stranger, softer, more emotionally charged materials.

Subject Object is the public-facing and conceptual arm of this practice: an object studio and jewellery atelier for ceremonial objects, existential adornment, one-of-one works, collectible objects, and fine jewellery with a pulse. The work is rooted in high craft, but refuses the old rules of polish, perfection, and exclusivity for their own sake.

While the studio is known for fine jewellery, Subject Object has never been solely about adornment. From ceremonial objects and sculptural vessels to experimental collections, strange luxuries, future heirlooms, and material experiments, the work is united by a fascination with the roles objects play in our lives and the stories we attach to them.

After years focused primarily on production jewellery, Subject Object has returned to its broader roots as a studio for both adornment and objects. Alongside fine jewellery, the studio once again produces one-of-a-kind works, limited editions, material experiments, and pieces that exist somewhere between utility, ritual, humour, and cultural observation.

Across their wider artistic practice, Bramble builds immersive installations, sculptural companions, decks, readings, and material systems that explore how people live alongside uncertainty rather than solve it. Their work is darkly humorous, materially curious, and often caught somewhere between luxury object, emotional support system, and cultural critique.

Bramble’s projects and work have been featured by ELLE Canada, Refinery29, PAPER Magazine, FASHION Magazine, CBC Life, The Globe and Mail, and JCK, with television placements including Pretty Little Liars and How to Get Away with Murder. They were named Artist of the Year by Maison Simons/Fabrique 1840 in 2020, were finalists for Best Wedding Jewellery and Engagement Rings for their bespoke work for two consecutive years by Avenue Magazine. They have participated in residencies and exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including the Berlin Art Institute.

Bramble founded and operated White Rabbit Atelier, a Calgary studio-shop and creative space that supported more than fifty artists during its four-year run. That experience continues to shape their commitment to accessibility, artist-led systems, and ways of presenting art, craft, jewellery, and objects outside the usual gatekeeping machinery.

Their current work includes Existential Adornment, One of One, Strange Luxuries, On Loan, Bespoke, collectible objects, and a growing body of installation-based projects concerned with objects, rituals, material hierarchies, and the strange human need to make meaning from the unresolved.

Everything is made with the belief that objects matter, not because they are expensive, but because they become part of how we remember, celebrate, grieve, gather, transform, and make sense of the world around us.

Fine jewellery. Strange objects. Thoughtful company.