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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 30, 2016 at 7:22am

Vacancy – Assay Office Apprentice

Image: Apprentices Robert Grant and Robert Hinson with their Master Dave Merry meeting The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall 

The Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office has a vacancy for an Apprentice technician. 

This four year apprenticeship scheme offers fully mentored training in all areas of assaying and hallmarking.  The job is very hands-on and requires a high level of commitment from the right individual.  Internal and external training will be provided in order to achieve a City and Guilds qualification at the end of the four years.

We are looking for someone who would be dedicated to a long term career within the Assay Office.

You will need to be aged between 16 and 18 and live within a commutable distance of the City of London. Please contact Dave Merry for further information.

Closing date: Friday 26 February 2016

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 30, 2016 at 7:19am

GOLDSMITHS' CRAFT AND DESIGN COUNCIL AWARD WINNERS 2015 

Dates: Tue 19 January 2016 to Tue 8 March 2016

Time: 8am – 6pm

Cost: Free

Venue: The Atrium at the Goldsmiths’ Centre

The Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council is the flagship organisation for the precious metal industry. It promotes, supports and enhances skills and excellence across the profession through a unique annual national competition for UK based designers and craftsmen.

Over 700 entries are judged by industry experts at the Goldsmiths’ Centre, which culminates in a prestigious awards ceremony and public exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall. This showcase celebrates the winners from 2015, their outstanding craftsmanship, creativity and originality, and brings together, for the first time, a selection of work by the Council’s important Ambassadors, Leo De Vroomen, Shaun Leane & Stephen Webster.

For more info, please visit goldsmiths-centre.org

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 30, 2016 at 7:16am

Holts News

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We kicked off 2016 with a bang here at the Academy. Our new Traineeship Programme began on 11 Jan, which saw 15 young people begin their journey into work and improved confidence. We are extremely proud to say that many of our last Traineeship group are now in full-time work since completing the 6 week programme.

Our new Level 2 Jewellery Manufacture and Design Diploma students started on 27 Jan, we look forward to following their progress this year!

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 30, 2016 at 7:16am

Camden Council to develop new jewellery workshops

Camden Council has announced its support of jewellery businesses in Hatton Garden through the development of new “affordable” work spaces. The council said that it hopes this will address a “critical” shortage of local workshop space, which is renowned as a centre for jewellers and follows on from concerns about rising rents putting an extra strain on the industry in the area. It comes as the council is also supporting moves to develop the area as a Business Improvement District (BID), which recently organised Hatton Garden’s first-ever Christmas lights switch-on.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 30, 2016 at 6:42am

New UCA page on AJF.. alumni now submitting portfolios, see Sharon Harvey BA 2014 already loaded https://artjewelryforum.org/schools/university-for-the-creative-arts

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 29, 2016 at 10:37am

Kathy Vones
Jewellery Design - Shortlisted 2016
http://www.artsfoundation.co.uk/Artist-Year/2016/all/629/Vones
Scottish based Kathy is currently completing a PhD on the creation of stimulus-reactive jewellery using smart materials and microelectronics following extensive study in silversmithing and jewellery.

The inspiration in Katharina’s work has come from two very different sources : the vibrancy of natural structures and the darkly glittering geometries of the city which she expresses by using a variety of materials ranging from tactile silicon to intricate metallic structures enclosing geometric gemstones and ossified minerals.

Not only content with a variety of materials she also uses a range of technologies such as photo-etching, three-dimensional printing and laser welding which enables her to replicate the fragility of mould and closely integrate the pieces into the geometries of the human body. Her Xylaria Brooch (2013) for example is based on observing the way in which crystalline and fungal growth forms on exposed surfaces in natural environments using silver, gold and silicone shapes that seem to burst out of calcified mineral growth. Additionally the brooch changes colour as the temperature rises and falls through thermochromic pigments being infused into the silicon.
Kathy’s development of ‘soft’ sensors, possible through piezoelectric, shape memory and magnetic smart materials has also resulted in pieces such as her Geotronic Brooch (2013) in which a light source pulsates in tandem with the human heartbeat.

If awarded the fellowship she would like to further explore the visual and functional potential inherent in smart materials and also develop a further collection of interactive jewellery possibly incorporating other smart materials such as memory metals and even live cellular material and smart polymers.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 29, 2016 at 10:35am

Thompson Royds

Jewellery Design - Shortlisted 2016

‘To the man on the street the term jewellery can be used to describe everything from a 20 carat diamond to a plastic trinket, but the response to each are equally different’ says Christopher Thompson Royds whose practice has always been centred around the issues of sentimentality, value, permanence and impermanence.
In his graduate project ‘Lead Weight’ (2010) he used gold and lead to explore the near-physical absence felt by his grandmother after the robbery of her jewellery collection long before he was born. Themes of perceived value, emotional and financial, wrestled with each other while also referencing how Ancient Romans had made counterfeit jewels out of gold plated iron to deceive the viewer and gold covered lead the wearer.

His first solo show entitled ‘Hoard’ tackled another theme, this time value and was hosted at the prestigious Galerie Marzee in 2012. The collection was inspired by a famous collection of medieval coins, bullion and jewellery which had been found hidden in the walls of an old house in Erfurt Germany. The potential interchange between these metal forms fascinated him and in response he drew down, rolled, pierced and soldered euro coins into necklaces, earrings and bracelets to form the collection.
Christopher’s latest collection Natura Morta (Galerie Marzee 2014) explores specifically the themes of permanence and its inverse and involved hand cutting paper-thin silver and gold which he would hand paint to mimic pressed flowers. Mounted in folios similar to those of the great plant collectors, the pieces can be kept untouched, sealed within their boxes, or can be worn, but like a floral wreath will change over time. The paint will wear leaving just a memory of the brilliance. http://www.artsfoundation.co.uk/Artist-Year/2016/all/631/Royds

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 29, 2016 at 10:34am

Sofie Boons

Jewellery Design - Shortlisted 2016

 

Sofie finds inspiration in materials, science and the world of scents, perfumes and smells. In her alchemical practice she strives to find the means to make invisible substances visible such as her creation of a recipe book on how to make wearable solid perfumes.

Her latest project began during a Masters in GSMJ at the RCA where she collaborated with Imperial College PhD student Jodie Melbourne leading to the research of metals on a nanoscale. Used widely in the medical world gold nanoparticles can be manufactured through the reduction of chloroauric acid creating gold atoms which group together. Excited by the plasmonic property of the particles which created bright colours and intriguing effects when coming into contact with certain light sources the two women developed a new material combining resin and nanogold and silver particles. Later research revealed that when the material moved from one light source to another it changed colour. Called NAuNO and NAgNO the project has been shown in Paris and New Designers in London where Sofie was picked by Harriet Vine as one of the Design Council’s Ones to Watch. She also won the RCA’s Theo Fennell Overall Excellence Award in 2013.

If she were to win the fellowship Sofie would like to develop a collection of contemporary jewellery which highlights the ability of the material to display multiple colours when viewed in different lights. As it involves resin, the ability to cast any shape for which a mould can be produced allows a great deal of flexibility in her future work. http://www.artsfoundation.co.uk/Artist-Year/2016/all/627/Boons

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 29, 2016 at 10:33am

I would like to announce to you the opening of a new exhibition at the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum (ILJM).
“New Territories”, will open its doors to the public on February 3rd, 2016.
This temporary exhibition will show case the recent work of 50 Greek studio jewelry artists, currently working in Greece.

There are travelling options for this temporary exhibition. If you wish to receive more information please contact Ms. Eleni Mastoras, ILJM Museum Administrative Officer at administration@lalaounis-jewelrymuseum.gr
If you are interested in receiving an exhibition catalogue please respond to this e-mail.

Please let us know if your travels bring you to Athens so that we may welcome you at the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum.
On this occasion I would like to wish you a creative year filled with cultural activities.

Warm Regards,

Ioanna I Lalaouni

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Ioanna I. Lalaouni
Director & Curator in Chief
ILIAS LALAOUNIS JEWELRY MUSEUM
Karyatidon 4a – Kallisperi 12 strs, Acropolis 11742
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Find us:
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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 29, 2016 at 10:33am

WINNER

Vann Kwok

Jewellery Design - Winner 2016

 

For Hong Kong born Vann Kwok, jewellery design provides a perfect platform to thread together her interests and experience spanning design, fashion, photography and motion picture.

 

Her work is largely informed by historical references to painting and sculpture as seen in her recent collection completed for her Masters at the London College of Fashion which drew inspiration from the compositions of colour, line, form and space of early Western still life and modernist geometric abstract painting.

 

Albeit with references to the past her work also has a contemporary feel coming from her use of material and sense of materiality. Calling her work ‘modern alchemy’ she adds, ‘I experiment with materials’ logic in response to forces such as gravity, weight, cooling, heating. pressure and their corresponding effects – melting, free-flowing and bending. I look for odd, misshapen or awkward results that carry the trace of chance.’

 

Originally trained in fashion Vann’s ease of working with the body as a subject to carry and wear her work is evident. In the film ‘Out of Flux’, Vann Kwok's jewellery becomes an extension of the body and illustrates how placement on and off the body affects posture and gesture in relation to one’s surrounding space. Looking like a 3D abstract painting the void between the body and jewellery creates a constant flow of energy (a flux), which continuously moves on and around the wearer.

Presenting her work through film is something Vann Kwok intends to repeat with a new collection which addresses the connection between the tangible (object and body) and the intangible (time and memory).

 

http://www.artsfoundation.co.uk/Artist-Year/2016/all/630/Kwok

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