Empower ♦ Transform ♦ Transcend
Empower ♦ Transform ♦ Transcend
Sardwell has a strong love and passion for art and lives her life looking through a lens of artistic sensibility. She absorbs and savors nature’s beauty and the cultural textures in her world. Sardwell’s work takes place at the intersection of sculptural power and sentimental grace.
Sardwell’s first theatrical large-scale sculptural installations, at Rhode Island School of Design, explored her desire to create three-dimensional sensory consuming productions that combined delicate metalworking and theatrical costuming.
As Sardwell traveled the world over a 15-year period, smaller production and jewelry emerged as her new form of expression, beginning with sketches and 3D models to observe the nuanced interplay of light and shadow from every angle.
“The transformational ability that sculpture has to alter space is a revolutionary power, now harnessed to be worn on the body as jewelry,” Sardwell explains.
In Buenos Aires, she worked with set designers for the Teatro Colon opera house, where elaborate costumes and sets were all made on premise. “I’m attracted to the idea that when wearing a costume, you can transform or highlight certain aspects of your personality and alter perception.” She was offered a position in the theater’s apprentice group to build, shape, and carve sets for the grand production of Puccini’s opera, Turandot, set in China.
As fate would have it, Sardwell had already made plans to embark for China. She learned Mandarin to facilitate networking with local creatives in tea shops and ateliers. She made her living by designing, developing and creating sculptural installations for commercial spaces. Her experiences there have allowed her to think holistically about the world and to move across cultural boundaries.
After being introduced to bold wearable treasures of the Miao silversmiths, in southern China, Sardwell traveled to a small village where she spent time observing local master silversmiths. “Experiencing these places and developing these relationships,” Sardwell explains, “sparked the idea of entering the jewelry world. Now I can put all my tools and materials into a suitcase and continue traveling to collect the seeds of creativity that I hope to plant and nurture.”
She next ventured to Brazil, learned to speak Portuguese, and apprenticed with master jewelers who worked by hand with their renowned precious and semi-precious gemstones. “I have had such unique and treasured opportunities to live and breathe these cultures and build long-term relationships with these craftsmen and artisans. They have all been my teachers.”
After spending over a decade internalizing foreign cultures, she returned to New York. She designs each piece with a key understanding that their birthplaces derive from many years of travel across the world. In this, she intends to mirror back to the world a sentiment of human goodness, spirit of theatrics and the audience we all have in each other.
Sardwell now shares her artistic lens, process and journey of creation through the new multidimensional world, Renisis.
Sardwell’s Story
Sardwell has a strong love and passion for art and lives her life looking through a lens of artistic sensibility. She absorbs and savors nature’s beauty and the cultural textures in her world. Sardwell’s work takes place at the intersection of sculptural power and sentimental grace.
Sardwell’s first theatrical large-scale sculptural installations, at Rhode Island School of Design, explored her desire to create three-dimensional sensory consuming productions that combined delicate metalworking and theatrical costuming.
As Sardwell traveled the world over a 15-year period, smaller production and jewelry emerged as her new form of expression, beginning with sketches and 3D models to observe the nuanced interplay of light and shadow from every angle.
“The transformational ability that sculpture has to alter space is a revolutionary power, now harnessed to be worn on the body as jewelry,” Sardwell explains.
In Buenos Aires, she worked with set designers for the Teatro Colon opera house, where elaborate costumes and sets were all made on premise. “I’m attracted to the idea that when wearing a costume, you can transform or highlight certain aspects of your personality and alter perception.” She was offered a position in the theater’s apprentice group to build, shape, and carve sets for the grand production of Puccini’s opera, Turandot, set in China.
As fate would have it, Sardwell had already made plans to embark for China. She learned Mandarin to facilitate networking with local creatives in tea shops and ateliers. She made her living by designing, developing and creating sculptural installations for commercial spaces. Her experiences there have allowed her to think holistically about the world and to move across cultural boundaries.
After being introduced to bold wearable treasures of the Miao silversmiths, in southern China, Sardwell traveled to a small village where she spent time observing local master silversmiths. “Experiencing these places and developing these relationships,” Sardwell explains, “sparked the idea of entering the jewelry world. Now I can put all my tools and materials into a suitcase and continue traveling to collect the seeds of creativity that I hope to plant and nurture.”
She next ventured to Brazil, learned to speak Portuguese, and apprenticed with master jewelers who worked by hand with their renowned precious and semi-precious gemstones. “I have had such unique and treasured opportunities to live and breathe these cultures and build long-term relationships with these craftsmen and artisans. They have all been my teachers.”
After spending over a decade internalizing foreign cultures, she returned to New York. She designs each piece with a key understanding that their birthplaces derive from many years of travel across the world. In this, she intends to mirror back to the world a sentiment of human goodness, spirit of theatrics and the audience we all have in each other.
Sardwell now shares her artistic lens, process and journey of creation through the new multidimensional world, Renisis.
Renisis is a multidimensional world.
Renisis represents Sardwell’s artistic struggle and fight, rebirth and creation, unifying the Latin word renitor (to strive or struggle against, to withstand or resist), with the word genesis (origin or beginning), and the essence of a renaissance.
The Renisis brand embodies its founder Sardwell’s sensibility and identity at the intersection of jewelry, sculpture and theater.
Renisis transforms and transports its wearer to another place, both physically and emotionally, providing superpowers to be stronger and to present one’s best self to the world.
