About Me
My name is Céline Munisso, and I am a Luxembourgish award-winning multi-material carver, maker, jeweller, and artist based in the South of England. As I work under my own name, it feels important to acknowledge that identity too. Céline is a French name, reflecting my Luxembourgish background, while Munisso comes from my father’s Italian heritage.
My path into jewellery began through a long-standing need to create. Before finding my way into this field, I came from a background in drawing and circus arts. I trained in circus for fifteen years, and in my later years, I also taught and assisted. For a long time, I imagined that would define my future, but when my body reached its limits, I was forced to reconsider what kind of creative life I wanted to build.
Drawing had always been a fundamental part of who I was. As a child, I spent every spare moment drawing, and later attended art school in Luxembourg, where I developed a more formal visual foundation. I was always drawn less to strict academic approaches and more to expressive, stylised, and imaginative forms of making.
Art also became important to me as a place of refuge and belonging. I was born hard of hearing and have worn hearing aids from a very young age, which shaped much of how I experienced the world and related to other people. Because of the challenges that came with that, and with often feeling socially out of step, making and drawing became a way for me to retreat into a space that felt entirely my own, a world I could build, shape, and belong within through creativity.
After graduating in 2020, I entered a period of uncertainty. I knew I wanted to work in the creative world, but I had not yet found the medium that felt fully right. I was deeply drawn to drawing, illustration, and graphic design, but I also knew I needed something more tactile, something that would allow me to shape ideas physically as well as visually.
That search led me to spend six months living in Seoul, South Korea, in what became a deeply formative period of self-discovery. I was trying to step outside the life I had known in Luxembourg, to do something new and challenging, and to work out more clearly who I wanted to become. I also attempted to learn Korean, with limited success, but the experience taught me a great deal about myself and gave me the space to reflect more honestly on the direction I wanted my life to take.
Not long after returning, I realised that jewellery could unite the things I had been searching for, drawing, design, material, and making by hand. That realisation led me to move from Luxembourg to England in 2022 to pursue a BA in Jewellery & Silversmithing at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham.
It was there that I began to define my artistic language more clearly and to understand what I wanted my work to convey. Over time, I found my place in carving, sculptural jewellery, and objets d’art, and returned to drawing in a way that felt intuitive and supportive rather than restrictive. My practice gradually became rooted in birds, symbolism, and material storytelling, shaped by a desire to create objects that feel personal, emotionally resonant, and rich in presence.
“Jewellery could unite the things I had been searching for, drawing, design, material, and making by hand.”
Life in England has also become deeply important to me on a personal level. It is here that I met my soulmate and built the life I now call home. We are due to get married this summer, a milestone that feels very special within everything this journey has brought me.
Outside of my practice, many of the things I care about continue to feed into my work in quieter ways. Birds remain one of my greatest passions, as is evident throughout my practice, but I also care deeply about cats and have two of my own. I have a particular soft spot for bumblebees, and I am equally drawn to tattoos, Asian food, travel, and the arts more broadly. I have a strong appreciation for ceramics, glass, and crafted objects, and I am always inspired by the ways different creative disciplines can speak to one another.