Interdisciplinary. Community. Advocacy. Humor.
I should have posted this ages ago but somehow, despite the constant reminders, I forgot!
My work has made the cover of a major new book on "Narrative Jewellery":
"Blood Will Have Blood: A Macbeth…
ContinueAdded by The Justified Sinner on November 20, 2017 at 5:26am — No Comments
Added by The Justified Sinner on October 8, 2017 at 2:30pm — No Comments
Craftivism!
A portmanteau word meaning "activism through craft". I don't think it has made the dictionary yet - though it has made…
Added by The Justified Sinner on July 30, 2017 at 1:42pm — 2 Comments
So, we all know - I assume my readers to be fellow Liberal Elite snowflakes, of course - that Trump is a nightmare.
Unfortunately, I was 'triggered' this week, even within my 'safe space' of bed. Frankly, it is my own fault: I've been watching the fantastic Ridley Scott version of Philip K. Dick's "The…
Added by The Justified Sinner on January 22, 2017 at 1:52pm — 3 Comments
In a week dominated by Trump and other fascist excesses, this terrible marketing puff for - believe it or not - flats in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham struck me as desperately appropriate. On another week, I might have mused on…
Added by The Justified Sinner on November 12, 2016 at 3:47pm — No Comments
What a week!
Quite apart from the preparations for the new students starting next week (and the previous ones returning, of course), I've spent a lot of time in the workshops - on Tuesday evening as much to avoid violent thunderstorms as anything else - making up work for the Made In The Middle show, work which shows a completely new way of working for me, eschewing applied - illustrative - narrative for a more 'improvised' narrative of material, being braver about allowing the…
Added by The Justified Sinner on September 19, 2016 at 4:02pm — No Comments
Yes, indeed. It may only be early September but I've been clearing the falling leaves from the garden, planting out my winter leeks and sowing land cress, radicchio and lettuce for winter salads, as well as poring over the seed catalogues which dropped through the door over the last week. (I'm not really sure why I get printed catalogues by post as I order my seeds and plants from the same companies online!)
This week I've been mostly working on the pieces for "Made in the Middle"…
Added by The Justified Sinner on September 11, 2016 at 2:02pm — 2 Comments
Back to work today and straight into preparations for the coming year, both academically - for the new and continuing students - and in terms of my own work.
The holiday was relaxing and fairly uneventful. On the back of my political fury of the last few months, I had been planning to go to Brighton's "Pride" event, something I've shunned since the early 1990s when the event ceased to be political and became no more than a corporate, money-spinning festival of…
Added by The Justified Sinner on August 22, 2016 at 1:02pm — 2 Comments
On holiday and in Brighton!
Last week was a bit of a rush as I had to complete both a piece for the Craftspace "Made in the Middle" show but also the piece for Boris Bally's "Imagine" show, as previously mentioned,…
Added by The Justified Sinner on July 31, 2016 at 10:00am — No Comments
This last week has been taken up by exploring a fairly new material with the pleasingly forthright Ronda Coryell, a delightful Amercian woman who is an expert in the use…
Added by The Justified Sinner on July 24, 2016 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Not much to report this week, so I'll digress on the new garden in Birmingham, for where I have been struggling to find that most proasic of vegetables (fruits, I suppose): rhubarb. I have always thought I hated rhubarb but one day a few months back, my colleague, Claire Price, brought in a jar of jam for us to eat at one of our regular staff breakfasts. I tucked in without giving it much thought and marvelled at the balance of sour and sweet, at the hint of orange, at the amazing scent. It…
ContinueAdded by The Justified Sinner on June 5, 2016 at 12:40pm — 2 Comments
This week has been taken up with the tough paperwork exercises of re-writing the whole curriculum at the School of Jewellery to make it more dynamic and flexible. We've taken the opportunity to make the whole thing more craft-based, which is…
Added by The Justified Sinner on May 29, 2016 at 12:30pm — 4 Comments
No blog post last weekend as I didn't get home from being in the Netherlands until late on Sunday night.
The…
Added by The Justified Sinner on April 17, 2016 at 3:18pm — No Comments
Just like the crappy local rag in Brighton, "The Argus", I am having a slow news week as I'm on holiday so this is going to be a short post. It has to be said, the 'headline' above is a new low in their generally laughable headlines - one…
Added by The Justified Sinner on March 27, 2016 at 10:26am — No Comments
Almost.
A short post as I'm on holiday now in Brighton.
Last week was fairly quiet, finishing with a student lunch on Friday before we split up for the winter break. I did get a chance to finish the last commission for Christmas,…
Added by The Justified Sinner on December 23, 2015 at 10:28am — No Comments
AND back at the bench! Hooray!
I've begun to catch up with commissions and making stock work. Immediately, I'm working on a piece incorporating a small 9ct Edwardian brooch and some of the metal found on Dungeness…
Added by The Justified Sinner on October 3, 2015 at 2:51pm — 2 Comments
So, as per my summer norms, I am in Brighton again for the summer season, reminding me of the quote from "Prick Up Your Ears", 'When you say he's on the Coast, dear, do you mean he's in…
Added by The Justified Sinner on June 28, 2015 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Added by The Justified Sinner on June 21, 2015 at 4:39am — 2 Comments
The main event this week has been completing my watch and chain for the ACJ exhibition "Sleight of Hand". The last element to be completed was the fitting of a glass to the 1838 silver watch-case which was…
Added by The Justified Sinner on May 17, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Jan Donaldson
At last I can reveal the "secret project" I have been working on for the last month for "The Contemporary Jewellery Exchange 2015" in which various contemporary jewellers around the world create pieces which they send to each other. I didn't want to…
ContinueAdded by The Justified Sinner on May 9, 2015 at 2:30pm — No Comments
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
© 2024 Created by Brigitte Martin. Powered by