Well, the students are back and their usual daft fun has begun. I came into the workshop today to find this on my benchpeg:

A present from Sweden. Unfortunately, the new students who don't quite have the same…

Tchotchkes in the White Cube: Exhibiting Craft and Design in the 20th century

Conventional art institutions such as museums and galleries have had problematic relationships with three-dimensional utilitarian objects since their inception. As several scholars, including Ruth Phillips and James Clifford, have argued, conventional displays deprive objects of their…

Hello all you lovely crafthaus people!

Please: Do yourselves a favor and add your name and relevant information into the TAG section of your photos - OR ELSE .... no one, I repeat: NO ONE (!) can find your work on the internet and that would be a shame. Adding so called "tags" to your photos is super easy and done in a…

Just back from another weekend at the Edinburgh Festival and a whole new raft of students who arrived on Monday, eager to learn. Always a bit daunting, but after the first full day in the workshop, making a simple polished brass ring (!), they mostly seemed pleased. Long may it continue.

Festival fun, as ever, with a series of events I didn't plan to go to. Started on Friday night with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing some music I had very mixed feelings…

Catching up on the books and magazines that my work has been published in this year:

Metalsmith Magazine Exhibition in Print 2011

The coveted issue of metalsmith, which I tried for years to get into and…

It is so good to finally be back at the bench and working on things again. I managed to get quite a lot done on two projects, cutting open the iron balls that will become "Fashion:Victim - In Memoriam ALMcQ" 

And also getting some bits and pieces together for "Future Legend", a…

Back in the workshop today and back to work on things. I've had an idea for a piece using some iron balls I found in a burnt-out warehouse in Kent four years ago:

The balls are about 100mm across and hollow.

 …

Hello,

I just received confirmation that I will be doing a Book Release/Signing Event at The Bookstore in Lenox, MA on September 25th for my new book "Roots, Stems, and Branches; A Recollection". I hope that, if you live in the area, Berkshire County, MA, Hudson River Valley, Northwestern CT, anywhere in the Northeast, that you'll come help me celebrate at this event.

If you want to come, contact Matt Tannenbaum at The Bookstore in Lenox at (413) 637-3390 or…

Dear Friends,

For the past ten years, I’ve been working on a project that I hoped would define those moments or events in my life that directed me to making my jewels. I’m thrilled now to announce the publication of my new book, Roots, Stems and Branches; A Recollection—the result of those many years of writing, art making, and personal reflection.



A special clothbound Collector’s Edition with dust jacket is now available and can be ordered directly online at <…

Still not really settled since returning to Scotland. From getting in on Friday, I had to go to work for half a day and then headed off to again to Edinburgh, from where I've just returned, having enjoyed the festival madness there. In short, went to see the Yogyakarta Court Gamelan, which was phenomenal, the David Mach show at the City Art Gallery and wandered around the High Street and the West End Craft fair.

I also met with a friend of mine who works on the Tattoo and got my…

Hello!

I am looking for artist (in any medium) to display artwork that deals with the medical field.  There is no entry fee, I am curating a show with mixed media (from sculpture to ceramics, painting and weaving...whatever) that is inspired by medical ideas, objects, diseases....again...whatever.

If you are one of these artist making work like this, PLEASE email me asap at:…

The Billboard Art Project Breaks ART BOUNDARIES in Duluth, MN

Originally posted by Harriete Estel Berman. Reposted with permission.



Postgraduate students specialising in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products from Birmingham City University are gearing up to offer a unique insight into the very best of up-and-coming contemporary design.

More than 30 MA students will be showcasing their final…

I often…

In Leeds, Yorkshire, for a training course in using Gemvision's "Matrix" software for jewellery design. Matrix is a kind of super-sophisticated overlay for Rhino, which is aimed squarely at the commercial and retail markets but which has enormous potential for the less traditional maker too, having tools which allow the laying out of pave settings on any shape, the ability to calculate how many stones of a given size it would take to…

My work is featured on handful of salt - interesting insights…thanks, Regina!

‘Madame Peripetie’ aka Sylwana Zybura is a Polish photographer based in Germany. Sylwana explores the boundaries between fashion, sculpture and the human body, experimenting with various fabrics and patterns; whilst infusing high-fashion elements with…

 It's thrilling to be a part of a very exciting and hip magazine.

Please take a few minutes to take a look at my work and others:

www.NeuroblastoMagazine.com

My work is featured on pages 6-21 of Issue #0.5