Selected works made by students of the Jewellery and Metal (JaM) programme at the Royal College of Art, 2025/26, seek to respond to contemporary themes around ideas or re-search, well-making, digital materialities, narratives, making meaning, and metal. Although a continually moving range of interests, the students draw on notions of cultural identity, temporality, materiality, emergence/complexity and preciousness. Students are encouraged to think through the artefact, as well as the complex possibilities of performance, identity, and wearability/symbiosis/intra-activity that ground the conceptual identity of jewellery. Other aspects of their creativity deal with elemental matters: finding meanings that are affective, personal, hopeful, and objectively subjective.