emily graduated from Sir John Cass, department of art
and design, with a BA Hon silversmithing, jewellery & allied crafts in
2004 and now works from her cosy studio, nestled into East Sussex
farmland. she works to commission as well as producing exquisite
jewellery ranges and one off pieces.
Although surrounded by all the full scale beauty of
nature, it’s electron microscope images which show the molecular world
around us magnified by up to x1,000,000 where she finds her
inspiration. The repetition of these microscopic shapes fascinates
her, although being structurally unique the forms still merge and fit
together to create distinctive sculptural forms, through sketching and
maquette making Emily transforms these structures into gorgeous unique
jewellery.
her work is exhibited regularly at galleries and at craft & design
shows
Crown ring
Flat Tube Rings
Interlocking Rings
Black Ring silver and agate
NOBUKO OKUMURA
Jewellery designer/maker.
Nobuko exhibits all over the UK with a
number of stockists.
She works in precious metals and gemstones. Cutting-edge technology is
used in line with traditional goldsmith techniques to produce original
and
contemporary jewellery
Education
2005-2007 BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing,
UCE, School of Jewellery, Birmingham, UK
2004-2005 H.N.D Level 2 Jewellery and Silversmithing, UCE
2000-2001 H.N.D Level 1 Jewellery and Silversmithing, UCE
1999-2000 N.D Level 1 Precious Metals and Gemstones, UCE
Exhibitions
2012 Multiplying Forms, Mostyn
2012 The Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey
2011 Christmas Showcase, The New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
2011 Electric, RBSA, Birmingham
2011 Christmas Showcase, Victoria Sweart
2011 The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
2011 Geometry, 75 New Street, Salisbury
2011 Showcase, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2011 Made for each other, The Harley Gallery, Worksop
2011 The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey
2011 AIR SPACE, BCU, Birmingham
2010 Centrepiece, Birmingham
2010 Flux, Birmingham
2010 The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
2010 The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey
2010 AIR SPACE, BCU, Birmingham
2010 Inhorgenta, Munich, Germany
2009 Centrepiece, Birmingham
2009 Made 09, Brighton
2009 The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
2009 The New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
2009 Design Space group exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
2009 Treasure, Coutts jewellery Week, London
2009 British Craft Trade Fair, Harrogate
2008 Flux, Birmingham
2008 Frost, Birmingham
2008 Enter Arts Exhibition, Wolverhampton
2008 New Year Showcase, Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston
2008 The Workshop, Lewes
2007 New Designers, Islington, London
2007 Degree Show: UCE, School of Jewellery, Birmingham, UK
2006 WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF PEWTERERS, Pewter hall, London
2006 WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS
Craftsmanship and Design Awards, London
Employment History
2012 Womad Festival, Children’s / Family
Ceramics Workshop. Co-ordinator
2011 Womad Festival, Children’s / Family
Ceramics Workshop. Co-ordinator
2009-2011 Artist in Residency, Birmingham City University
2008 -2009 Design Space, self-employed jeweller, Birmingham
2008 Jewellery workshop, Cheslyn Haye Sports and Community high
School, Cannok
2008 Jewellery workshop for International Women’s Week,
Wolverhampton Art and museum, Wolverhampton
2007 Artist in Residence, Bilston Art and Craft Gallery, Bilston
2005 Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham, Children’s / Family
Ceramics Workshop. Co-ordinator
Awards
2010 New Business Award, The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey
2006 WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS
Craftsmanship and Design Awards: Gold (design Technological awards-3D)
2006 WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS
Commendation (Silversmiths Junior)
2006 WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF PEWTERERS
3rd prize (Gift section)
2005 BRITISH JEWELLERS’ ASSOCIATION: Baxendale Award
2005 WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GOLDSMITHS
Craftsmanship and Design Awards: Silver (Diamond Mounters Junior)
2001 GOLDSMITHS GROUP design awards: Commission prize
2001 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND HND: design awards
2001 BRITISH JEWELLERS’ ASSOCIATION: certificate of merit
2000 BRITISH JEWELLERS’ ASSOCIATION: certificate of merit
Training
2008 – 2009 Design Space, Birmingham
2007 - 2008 Enter Arts, Bilston, West Midlands
2006 Enamelling Course, UCE Birmingham
2005 CAD Training, DELCAM, Birmingham
2003 Foundation Certificate in health and safety in the
workplace, Exeter
2001 Stone Setting Course, UCE Birmingham
2001 Preparation for Business Certificate, NVQ level 3. Totnes, Devon
Sally has been designing and making jewellery since
1987. Her early years were spent running around fields in the
countryside near Ruthin, North Wales. Lovely memories, shared with
family. Now, having learnt to appreciate the countryside her designs
have developed around this fascination of nature and its strengths,
growth, decay and designs.
Sally works mainly in silver, reticulating the
surface to give a more natural, organic feel to her pieces. The
jewellery and artwork is embellished with gemstones and gold detail.
All the work is made in her Sheffield workshop,
behind Gallery 33.
Most of the work is hallmarked at Sheffield Assay
Office, with the official Sheffield hallmark, plus 'SJR', my
registered stamp. Where items fall below the necessary weight for
hallmarking they are stamped by myself with 'SJR' and '925'.
SHEILA PHILLIPSON
Hand Crafted Jewellery
Each
piece you see here is unique - designed to set the wearer apart from
the crowd. But I also want my Jewelley creations to be wearable in a
wide range of settings and different occasions on a range of clothing.
Put simply, I want to present handmade
Jewellery that offers the maximum versatility to complement the
wardrobe you own and lifestyle you aspire to. I want you to look good,
to feel good and to be different!
About me
Hello, I’m Sheila Phillipson. For the past twenty
years, I have been working and teaching in the fields of art, costume
and design. I am passionate about creating unique, distinctive designs
that look and feel beautiful.
I began designing bespoke jewellery after studying
under Jacqueline Warrington, whose skill and expertise was
inspirational. Now through my website you can treat yourself to one of
my unique pieces of jewellery, or share them as special gifts for
family and friends.
Contemporary jewellery designer whose inspiration comes from modern
Japanese architecture. My work is based on the simplicity of the line
and symmetrical geometric shapes to produce a minimalist collection
fusing 3d technology with traditional goldsmithing skills. The
majority of my pieces are made in sterling silver but they can also be
produced in yellow, white or red gold.
Education
Sept 2007 - June 2010
BA(Hons) Jewellery
Buckinghamshire New University
Exhibitions
Ringleaders 2013
Pyramid Gallery, York
26 January - 30 April 2013
2012 Merge Christmas Contemporary Craft Fair, Oundle
2012 Christmas Crackers, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield
2012 Contemporary Craft Fair, Cornerstone Arts, Didcot, Oxfordshire
2012 Handmade at Oxford Castle, Oxford
2012 A Summer Exhibition, Henley Gallery, Henley
2012 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2012 Artspace, Barn Galleries, Henley on Thames
2012 Oxfordshire Artweeks, Witney, Oxfordshire
2012 British Craft Trade Fair, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate
2012 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
2011 Upstairs Gallery, High Street, Berkhamsted
2011 Studio E174, Bucks Open Studios
2011 Cool Construct, Kath Libbert Gallery, Salts Mill, Saltaire
2010 New Designers, Islington Design Centre, London
2010 EYeS, Buckinghamshire New University Degree Show, High Wycombe
Awards
Jewellery Live Competition, Michael Jones Jewellers, Northampton -
Winner
Press
Crafts Magazine - March/April 2012 Giftware Review - March/April 2012 Craft & Design Magazine - March 2012 ELLE - 7 September 2011 Yorkshire Post - 18 November 2010 Intuition Magazine - October 2010 Image Magazine - August 200
This ring is designed to worn on 2 fingers,
allowing the 'stone' to appear to hover, as if unattached.
Surprisingly comfortable and easy to wear
PIERS COLEMAN-COOKE
'giddygecko'
is synonymous
with designer hand made jewellery with a
difference
We pride ourselves with producing well crafted
beautiful and unique piecesthat will remain
firm favourites for years. No two items are ever quite thesame and styles range from classic to quirky
Each solid Silver ring is individually sand cast,
using 100% recycled SterlingSilver, without
using any ready made components. It is then inlaid andpolished by us in our workshops in Devon and France.
Everything we create is unique, ‘one-off’, and utterly
beautiful; we take theold and discarded and
transform them into wearable, sparkling, originalpieces of jewellery, guaranteed to get you noticed
We believe that jewellery should reflect your
personality, be worn withpleasure and
pride, be seen and admired by others and depending on thestyle and colour, with a sense of fun
silver ring with Aquamarine set in hand cut 18ct
gold setting.
Gold ring with labradorite
silver ring with marquise cut Aquamarine
set in hand cut 18ct gold setting.
R31 silver ring with amethyst
NAOMI JAMES
Naomi was born and educated in Sussex. She graduated in
Jewellery at Middlesex Polytechnic and then worked as an assistant
technician at the Royal College of Art. After two years as a self
employed jeweller working at Jess James, W1, she travelled in
Thailand, Borneo, Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, India and Nepal.
Since then she has worked as a self employed jeweller, and was manager
of the National Theatre Dazzle exhibition in 2001 and 2002.
Naomi has worked in a variety of materials since she started making
jewellery at the age of 14. She has always designed as she works,
allowing the making process to inspire the final design. Most of the
pieces are made using simple hand tools and she enjoys the fact that a
lot of her jewellery can still be made in this way.
She has frequently used embossing in her work. Earlier designs
involved piercing patterns into stainless steel which was then rolled
with silver. Recent work began with picking up feathers in the park
with her young son – she found that despite their delicate appearance
they could be transformed into a solid form by embossing into silver.
She then experimented further with dried flowers, leaves and leaf
skeletons and found that an amazing amount of detail was picked up on
the silver, which she then complemented with touches of 18 carat gold.
Some designs include coloured semi-precious stones.
Other elements of her work have evolved through experimentation with
the textures that can be achieved with hammering metal. She uses a
variety of hammers to create surfaces and marks that alter the way
light is reflected. She likes the feeling that the metal appears to
have been aged by beating it with a rusty hammer – like something that
may have been dug up.
Pamela Dickinson
will be talking to the York Art Worker Association on Monday 4th
February. For more information please see the Yorkshire
Artworkers website
For this
lecture, she
will be talking about the way looking at larger things has resulted
in her making small ones. And why precious jewellery can represent
an outlet for artistic expression for both the maker and the wearer.
With illustrations of her own jewellery work spanning a career of
forty years, and that of some of her contemporary designer/makers.
Pamela has
supplied Pyramid Gallery for over 20 years and continues to be one
of best selling jewellery designers. The work is made at her studio
in Driffield, East Yorkshire.
Helen has been
designing and making jewellery since she created 'Helen Brice Designs'
after graduating in 1999. The 'Precious Collection' coordinates the
beautiful colours of precious and semi-precious gemstones with the
warmth of natural precious metals.
Her outstanding
range of rings are partnered with beautiful necklaces, brooch and
earring designs, which effortlessly bridge the gap between
contemporary and classical jewellery design. With inspiration drawn
from architectural details and celestial patterns, Helen has created a
uniquely versatile collection which can be tailored to create bespoke
jewellery incorporating sentimental gems for her customers.
There are many
beautiful wedding and engagement rings which can be also be produced
to commission in Yellow/White/Rose Golds in 9ct & 18ct, as well as
Sterling Silver, Platinum & Palladium. Helen particularly enjoys
designing bespoke pieces for individual clients and welcomes the
opportunity to create new and innovative jewellery.
Hannah Bedford’s jewellery designs explore texture and form using the
traditional processes of granulation and Keum-boo (fine gold fusing).
Working in golds and silver, Hannah creates a range of women’s
jewellery, from bespoke neckpieces through to delicate earrings and
rings.
Collections are inspired by organic growth patterns in the natural
world. Hannah uses gold fusing and granulation to create raised,
textured surfaces that entwine each piece and takes great care to work
on the underside of a piece. The work is often led by these technical
explorations, using them to play with scale, form and contrasting
precious metals to create aesthetically beautiful forms.
Since graduating from Birmingham School of Jewellery with a first
class honours degree in 2004, she was selected for the Bishopsland
Educational Trust (2004 – 2005) and the South Hill Park Arts Centre
(2005 – 2007) residencies.
Hannah’s jewellery is exhibited nationally and she has been
represented at Collect (2006 and 2007) and exhibited at Origin (2009).
All pieces are handcrafted at Hannah’s studio at Cockpit Arts
Deptford, in the hub of South London’s creative community.
Alison Varley uses a traditional 'forging'
techniques to make individual and unique works of art in silver and
gold. We like these at Pyramid Gallery because there is no way to
reproduce these except at the hands of a time served artisan. The
process is physically demanding and requires artistic talent as well
as knowledge about the materials used.
Each
piece you see here is unique - designed to set the wearer apart from
the crowd. But I also want my Jewelley creations to be wearable in a
wide range of settings and different occasions on a range of clothing.
