Experimental Jewellery Short Course
Course description
Course overview
If you want to create modern, unusual jewellery using contemporary materials this course will guide you through the process. You will undertake several projects to produce a range of pieces that explore different techniques. The course will cover combining precious and non-precious materials, including resin, acrylic, silver and found objects.
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for anyone interested in exploring different jewellery-making techniques, regardless of prior experience. Beginners are welcome, as are those looking to expand existing knowledge.
Key information
Topics covered
- Working with clear resin
- Introducing coloured dyes and embedded objects
- Exploration of textures and heat-forming techniques with acrylic
- Wire work (constructing 3D forms by wrapping, twisting and including objects
- A project using fused silver wire
Learning outcomes
- Explore different jewellery-making techniques through different processes and using contemporary materials
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Apron
- Sensible shoes
For health and safety reasons, if you have long hair, please bring a hair tie with you.
Tutor
Sarah King
Sarah King is an established jeweller specialising in mixing precious and non-precious materials in jewellery and using them to make sculptural and tactile pieces. She has sold her work through department stores such at Liberty and Barneys, New York and the art jewellery gallery Jewellers' Werk Galerie in Washington DC. Since 2000 she has been experimenting with cast bioresin and these works are in public and private collections (including Crafts Council and the British Council), and has worked on many books on contemporary jewellery. She has won the Association of Contemporary Jewellery Prize and several Goldsmiths' Craftmanship and Design Awards.
She has taught specialist classes in plastics, wood and silver jewellery for over 15 years and in 2019 published her first book 'Creating Jewellery in Wood'. For 16 years she was based in the innovative makers hub Cockpit Arts in London and now lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex.
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