October 2013 Blog Posts (10)

Bursts of Colour

This has nothing to do with craft and design but then again who is the best craftsman of all other than nature? It is a pure pleasure for the eyes and the soul watching the autumn colours at…

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Added by Vicky Saragouda on October 28, 2013 at 3:36pm — No Comments

Futurism - Muse - A Ramble on music and a moment in art

A while back I received an unusual commission from fellow-jeweller, Poppy Porter, to make a piece using some titanium components from an F1 racing car. The pieces are beautifully-engineered and milled from solid blocks of metal.…





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Added by The Justified Sinner on October 26, 2013 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Catching Up - Pearls - Folkestone - Dapper Gentlemen

I've been on holiday and on either side of that holiday, I was exceptionally busy, so it is only tonight that I have managed to get some time to put together a blog post about what has been going on. I can barely believe that it is nearly the end of October and it seems like only yesterday that it was the start of the month and the Craft Scotland conference.…



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Added by The Justified Sinner on October 23, 2013 at 3:10pm — No Comments

About brooches

There are currently two jewellery exhibitions in Verona, Italy both organised by the Associazione Nurò. "Brooching Verona" curated by the Associazione Nurò is part of the annual Verona Art Fair and is on from 8-20 October.…

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Added by Vicky Saragouda on October 9, 2013 at 2:56am — No Comments

A Sheepish Update!

I completely forgot that I spent some time during the conference over the weekend speaking to Rachel Skene - a friend and colleague of Patty Niemann's in Caithness - talking about her project "You Love Local". This is a scheme which aims to promote handmade and craft products by not only tracking products from start to finish but also to by giving them a "narrative", something of their back-story. She is also planning a level of managed quality…

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Added by The Justified Sinner on October 8, 2013 at 1:05pm — No Comments

Call for Entry: Sup Brooch

The Sup Brooch online exhibition and print catalog is intended to be a survey of brooches both made for and worn exclusively by men. Jewellery is often intended for women, but the brooch is a sculptural, gender-neutral jewellery object, and jurors Sharon Massey and Cortland DeWitt are interested in exploring the ways in which artists respond to the…

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Added by Sharon Massey on October 7, 2013 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Craft Scotland Conference



Dundee Morning



I have just returned from Dundee where I attended the Craft Scotland conference for 2013. As I have blogged before, I have a lot of time for Craft Scotland. I don't…

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Added by The Justified Sinner on October 7, 2013 at 4:11am — 40 Comments

More from the Bench (and a Weekend Away!)

What a week! There was a bank-holiday here on Monday, so it has been quick and packed and suddenly I find it is Thursday evening, nearly the weekend already.



Continuing with finishing off projects, I have completed my last "Tank" bracelet, this one more in my usual style and called "The Spoils Of War":…







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Added by The Justified Sinner on October 3, 2013 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Trevi Pendro, Alexander McQueen and Me

Many years ago, I realised that Alexander McQueen was not a couturier in the usual sense of the word. It was his commission of the collar from Shaun Leanne for his 2001 catwalk show which drew my attention to his work - the collar is a stunning assembly of lethal silver spikes and grey pearls, seen at 7:40 in the video below - and the show just blew me away. From that moment on, I never thought of McQueen as a clothing designer but as a sculptor, a critic, an historian, someone with a…

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Added by The Justified Sinner on October 1, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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