Rebecca Skeels
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Farnham, Surrey, UK
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SKEELS
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Rebecca Skeels started her business in 1994 after graduating from the University of Wales. Since 1994, Rebecca’s thirst for knowledge and her passion for sharing has led her to graduate from Central Saint Martin’s, MA Project by Design and achieving a PGC in Higher Education from the University for the Creative Arts. Rebecca is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

As a designer-maker, Rebecca’s work has been exhibited across Europe, in the USA and China and she continues to explore ideas and work collaboratively with like-minded designer-makers within different disciplines, utilising different materials. In parallel, Rebecca’s enthusiasm to encourage others to learn and to be creative led her to the position as Course Leader for Postgraduate courses in Craft at the University for the Creative Arts.

Rebecca’s position as a design maker, leader of craft courses and as an active member of the UK’s craft industry, provides her with a unique perspective on education and requirements for the future of ‘the crafts’. Her interests allow her to continuously develop craft education to enable more inclusive learning experiences which are adaptable to the students’ abilities. Her exploration of ‘other’ materials and processes from different craft disciplines provides an extensive view of the industry.

Materials are her obsession; bridging her work as a designer-maker and her role as an educator. Materials and their related processes determine not only the form and function of an object but also the object’s interaction with the surrounding environment, connecting with personal memories and associations. The use of materials within Rebecca’s own work can be fun, contradictive, functional and thought-provoking. The knowledge of other craft sectors has lead to the exploration of traditional techniques and processes, along with new technologies and digital processes, developing current and future craft practices.

Designer/Maker/Educator at SKEELS
http://www.skeels.co.uk/

Crafts Council Mentor. http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/recognition-accreditation/hea-fellowships

Member of the Board of Directors at the Association for Contemporary Jewellery. http://www.acj.org.uk/index.php/about-us/acj-personnel

Founder Member of the Jewellers and Silversmiths Network. https://jewellersandsilversmiths.wordpress.com/tag/jsn/
Your website, DIRECT flickr or DIRECT facebook links where your work can be seen.
http://www.skeels.co.uk
What media do you work with?
mixed media.

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Update August 2019

Posted on August 5, 2019 at 8:52am 0 Comments

Some of you may be aware that due to the restructure at the University for the Creative Arts there are no longer Course Leader positions. I will be finishing as Course Leader of the postgraduate programmes (MA Ceramics, MA Glass, MA Jewellery, MA Metalwork, MA Product Design and MA Textiles) in the School of Craft and Design at the end of August.
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Triple Parade

Posted on October 19, 2018 at 7:30am 0 Comments

The Triple Parade October 2018.

The Triple Parade event, opened on the 19th October 2018, organised and run by Sun Jie and the TRIPLE PARADE Biennale Organising Committee, HOW Art Museum-Design Center, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai

This is the fourth edition of Triple Parade, with the first established in 2013. This year’s theme and dialogue was across the Past, the Present, the Future. The programme…

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Farnham Craft Month: October 2018

Posted on October 1, 2018 at 8:00am 0 Comments

 

Farnham Craft Town Celebrates throughout the year with many events, but Organisations and individuals come together each October to highlight activities across Farnham.

Rebecca has worked with the supporters of Farnham Craft Town and Craft Town England to develop the programme for 2018 Craft month as well as run events for the School of Craft and Design and develop two digital network pages to promote Craft Town activities throughout the year.…

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Future Craft: March 2018

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Rebecca initiated and managed the Future Craft Conference, Exhibition, Publication and Networking. Future Craft was the first in a series of biennial conferences that will offer an opportunity for discussion, engagement and debate across a broad continuum of craft.

The ‘Entrepreneurship or Enterprise?’ conference will celebrate the continual innovation of the jewellery and silversmithing industry, learning, development, business and variety of contexts and…

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ACJ Conference

Posted on July 2, 2017 at 9:26am 0 Comments

20:20 Visions conference promises to be a real spectacle! Rebecca Skeels, jeweller, author and educator will be sharing her practice in a packed programme of talks, workshops, performances, exhibitions and more! Full conference programme available www.acj.org.uk.…

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Countdown to launch. With crowood publishers. Still chance for a discount!

Posted on April 17, 2017 at 4:41am 0 Comments

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Dear All Members, Followers and Likers of our Network pages.We are currently streamlining our pages at the moment and have found that fewer people are now following and using twitter and crafthaus to find out about jewellery events, exhibitions, opportunities, seeing new work and generally chatting about jewellery.If you use these, please head over to our other pages on other platforms: -Facebook:…See More
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Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"Dear All Members, Followers and Likers of our Network pages. We are currently streamlining our pages at the moment and have found that fewer people are now following and using twitter and crafthaus to find out about jewellery events, exhibitions,…"
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Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"Have you seen it yet. https://www.acj.org.uk/index.php/2-uncategorised/511-acj-2020-exhibition-glasshouses"
Sep 26, 2020
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"Intensive 4-day virtual residency + workshop + public presentation for multimedia and interdisciplinary artists, jewellery and fashion designers who want to learn about jewellery art, story telling, mythology, performanceIntensive 4-day virtual…"
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Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"http://www.artistarjewels.com/aj/en/participation-artistar-jewels.html ARTISTAR JEWELS 2021 (3 - 6 June) THE DETAILS"
Sep 26, 2020
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair Online Christmas Edition:   21-22 November 2020   Apply NOW for GNCCFonline at Christmas. Deadline midnight 4th October 2020. http://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/apply.aspx"
Sep 26, 2020
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"VISIT GOLDSMITHS FAIR ONLINE Melanie Eddy - Melanie Eddy Design @mne_eddy www.melanieeddy.co.uk Vania Leles - VanLeles Diamonds @vanleles_diamonds www.vanleles.com Ryan Nelson - Ryan Nelson London @ryannelsonlondon www.ryannelson.com Ndidi…"
Sep 26, 2020
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"MA Online shows, https://gradshows.uca.ac.uk/explore-showcases/page/1?course_id=127 @HarrietWalford"
Sep 26, 2020
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"JOYA 2020. Behind The Scenes III…"
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"A Makers Guide to Patination with Collier Webb…"
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Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"London Craft Week   An award-winning artist silversmith, Elizabeth Auriol Peers makes distinctive, tactile silverware that is functional yet subtly sculptural.…"
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Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"In the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust’s 30th anniversary year, the charity has joined with Royal Warrant-holding companies in the St James’s area to host a craft trail celebrating their shared passion for British…"
Sep 26, 2020
Rebecca Skeels commented on Rebecca Skeels's group The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
"The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2020 exhibition will open at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in Spring 2021. In the months before, the finalists welcome us into their studio, so we might better understand their works before…"
Sep 26, 2020
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"BIG DRAW: It's not too late to sign up! https://mailchi.mp/thebigdraw/get-drawn-back-to-life-in-2019-announcing-the-big-draw-festival-2019-theme-506336?e=be22c02806"
Sep 26, 2020
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"Prince Charles opened the digital Goldsmiths’ Fair…"
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At 12:50pm on March 28, 2016, Rebecca Skeels said…

little bit of an update... especially after the software update moves stuff around a little...http://skeels.co.uk/

At 5:36pm on November 19, 2014, Lucy Louise Derickson said…

Hi Rebecca, Thanks for the comment. I'm new to Crafthaus and haven't set up my page just yet, but here is my website www.lucyderickson.com

I hope to get my page sorted out asap! 

Thanks again. :)

Lucy 

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At 4:46pm on June 18, 2013, Marie Godfrey said…

Thanks Rebecca.  See you soon.

At 9:08pm on April 2, 2013, elizabeth shaw said…

Hi Rebecca, That would be great, thanks! e

At 3:34pm on June 28, 2012, Rebecca Skeels said…

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At 9:14am on February 9, 2012, Mark Fenn - Studiofenn said…

Hi Rebecca, thanks for the info on the cleaning solution..have just ordered some from Walsh's..hope all is well with you

At 11:59am on August 2, 2011, Gigi Mariani said…
Thanks Rebecca, it's always nice to receive compliments, ... need to continue with enthusiasm:))
excuse my English, maybe not as good as my work:))

At 12:59pm on July 25, 2011, Mark Fenn - Studiofenn said…

Hi Rebecca,

will of course I will add some images.....once I get around to taking some!!! hopefully that will not be too long.

 

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