Jessica Winchcombe is a contemporary jewellery designer, multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in Queenstown, New Zealand. Working across jewellery, painting, and mixed media, her practice explores materiality, privacy, identity, and the flow state.

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Jessica graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Jewellery) from Whitireia New Zealand in 2010, receiving the Fingers Graduate Award and selection for the Marzee International Graduation Show in the Netherlands the following year. Since then, her work has been exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

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An important early influence on her practice came through the Handshake mentoring programme, where she worked alongside renowned New Zealand jeweller Warwick Freeman. This collaboration led to exhibitions at Schmuck International Jewellery Exhibition in Munich in 2011 and the Handshake Alumni exhibition Specials in 2016.

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Jessica's jewellery has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including Wunderrūma, curated by Warwick Freeman and Karl Fritsch, and presentations during Milan Fashion Week in 2017. Her work is recognised for its distinctive folded forms, innovative material combinations, and conceptual approach.

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Jessica continues to exhibit nationally and internationally, with recent projects including exhibitions with Objects Beautiful at Collect Art Fair, London, and Frame during Munich Jewellery Week. Her current work explores themes of privacy, identity, and the increasingly blurred boundaries between public and private life. In 2026, she also served as co-curator of Aotearoa Exchange at the Pinakothek der Moderne during Munich Jewellery Week.

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Alongside her studio practice, Jessica is the founder and director of Studio 42 Jewellery School in Queenstown, which she has operated since 2017, fostering contemporary jewellery education and creative development within the local community.