Jiska Hartog and Michiel Henneman were two times successively winners of the New traditional jewellery award 2007 and 2008. 
Both trained as silversmith in Schoonhoven, studied art at the AKI academy in Enschede and gained their master in fine art at Wimbledon college of art in London. 

In our work stands the definition concerning the jewel centrally, and this is thus immediately the most important source of inspiration. If for example accidentally a piece of chewing-gum falls from your mouth and this sticks on your clothing, can you consider this then as a jewel? To consider these as a jewel seems a step too far, and that is exactly where our interest is in located: to bring up the discussion of the values of material’s and the operations which we associate with this. The culture around the jewel is just as important as the jewel himself, we do not want to disconnect those two. The desire which can arouse by jewels at a human being is something we like to use as a illustration within our work.