The Glasgow School of Art

Silversmithing and Jewellery Design

The Glasgow School of Art was founded over 160 years ago. As one of the oldest art and design institutions in the UK, GSA's history reflects the changing nature of art, design, and architecture practice and education from the 19th century to the present day and is the only small specialist art institution in Scotland.

The Silversmithing and Jewellery programme aims to provide a broad, balanced programme covering aspects of body adornment and fine metalworking from the development of original design concepts through to the finely crafted finished work. The course embraces as broad an approach to silversmithing and jewellery as possible, from designing for the mainstream jewellery or silverware industries to the pursuit of very personal works intended for gallery exposure.

A strong emphasis is placed on the development of individual craft and design skills that increasingly allow each student the freedom to pursue and realise ideas in appropriate media. Consequently, we actively encourage exploration of a wide range of materials through project work. The course centres its basic technical studies, however, in the area of fine metalworking, providing students with the experience of working in gold and silver as well as other metals.

 

Participants: Anna Gordon (GSA Staff) Miki Asai (GSAAlumni) Eleanor Whitworth (GSAAlumni) Michael Pell (GSA Staff) Jonathan Boyd (GSAAlumni) Frances Wadsworth-Jones (GSAAlumni) Marianne Anderson (GSA Staff) Astrid Jaroslawsky (GSAAlumni) Joy Bonfield Columbara (GSAAlumni) Andrew Lamb (GSA Staff) Emma Gregory (GSAAlumni) Patrick Davison (GSAAlumni) Silvia Weidenbach (GSA Staff) Siri Hansen(GSAAlumni) Iona Turner (GSAAlumni)

Supervised by: Silvia Weidenbach

Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences

Technology, Business and Design

In the Bachelor's degree course Design - "Product and Jewelry" and the Master's degree course "Material Culture Design", students design products, objects and processes and make them applicable for the diverse challenges of a dynamically developing living and working environment. The requirements for the development of sustainable concepts are demanding and subject to constant change. In addition to considering functional, technological and aesthetic aspects of the design brief, critical reflection on social and ethical contexts also plays an important role. The location of the course within the Faculty of Art and Design as well as in the engineering-oriented university sector offers an ideal surrounding for this.

At the Grassimesse 2024, selected results from the semester projects will be shown.

Project - PINUS

In her final thesis PINUS, Johanna Ebert explores the creative and technological possibilities of using pine needles.
The series of objects demonstrates the versatility of these materials, offers possibilities for material substitution and for dealing with our usual ideas of materials.

Project - Grasp me

Hannah Steenken is working on the idea of creating alternative therapeutic tools for self-harming behavior. The graduate's intensive study of a wide range of topics relating to mental disorders, their symptoms and treatment options as well as the treatment of haptics and the sense of touch led to the creation of various therapeutic tools in the field of mindfulness.

Project - Touch Meets Taste

In her work, Sara Lamitschka creates tactile and haptic sensations that evoke taste experiences. The customizable tools of the tableware and cutlery series create an interactive experience and thus activate our senses of taste.

Supervised by: Prof. Stephan Schulz

Participants:

Johanna Ebert, Hanna Reppmann, Hannah Steenken, Sara Lamitschka, Celine O´Neal

HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim

Metal-design und Jewelry

At the HAWK Hildesheim in the Metal Design & Jewelry competence field, the contexts of art, design and crafts are linked. Jewelry and body-related objects, tableware and vessels as well as architectural and spatial works are the areas in which we work. At the HAWK's Faculty of Design, students can experience the time, space and reflection required to develop their own ideas into in-depth and coherent concepts and corresponding materializations. The individual creative-research contexts are developed in the profile-forming project offerings. Social, societal and cultural observations in a constantly changing (surrounding) world can become an intention, an occasion for design. The artistic forms of expression are free and the possibilities are very diverse. The aim is therefore to accompany and encourage students and graduates to find their own expressiveness and form of expression in their work and to define a sense of authenticity. A vessel, a piece of furniture, an installation, a piece of jewelry, an object in relation to the body or to space can stand for an artistic position. In this way, the results between use-oriented, applied and free, artistic orientations become apparent.

 

Anna Warneboldt, Bachelor 2024

(Fakultätspreis der Fakultät Gestaltung 2024, HAWK)

REMINICI –Textile as memory carrier REMINICI is a research on memories as an autobiographical image of myself. I worked my own fields of memory into the textile surface of an old bedspread with and through material as a haptically and visually tangible landscape. Glass beads, embroidery techniques, textiles and items of clothing from my great-grandmother's archive serve as memory carriers. As a body-related object, these memory landscapes combine to form a larger image of myself.

Körperbezogenes Objekt REMINICI: Textil aus dem emotionalen Archiv, Textil, Glasperlen, Leder, Seide

Gabi Semmelroggen, Bachelor 2024

Lighter is heavier than air

Suddenly someone makes you feel that you are no longer wanted. What could the consequences be? In my case, the decision not to remain in a narrow hierarchical environment was the beginning of my examination of the effects of hierarchy and patriarchy up to the consequences of the Nazi era for those born after it. My practical work attempts to contrast the narrowness and restricted movement of a rigid system with the buoyancy of a diverse, colorful system.

Body-related object - Lighter is heavier than air Fabric, brass, yarns

Jonas Fey, Master 2024

Underwater oases/ coral gardens

Rising sea temperatures and ocean acidification are endangering coral reefs, which play an important role in people's lives. Due to climate change, storms are increasing, accompanied by strong tidal waves that cause massive coral damage. My work visualizes dystopia through artificial structures that represent negative human environmental impacts. In doing so, I also symbolize the hope for the recovery of corals and a harmonious coexistence of humans and animals.

Brooches coral gardens:

Brooch, 2024 - Coral Garden/ Great Barrier Reef Australia: Wax, galvanized silver, calcium carbonate, polyvinyl alcohol, fluorescent UV pigment, pigment mixture of enamel powder, micaceous iron oxide, muscovite

Brooch, 2024 - Coral Garden/ Andaman Islands, India: Wax, electroplated copper, calcium carbonate, polyvinyl alcohol, fluorescent UV pigment, pigment mixture of enamel powder, fuchsite, micaceous iron oxide, mother-of-pearl

Supervised by: Prof. Melanie Isverding

 

Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design (Halle/Saale)

Conceptual Textile Design – Masterclass

Textile design is constantly changing and textiles are everywhere. They reflect society as well as global issues such as climate change, gender issues and digitalization. This is demonstrated by the very different master's theses in Conceptual Textile Design at burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, which find their common ground in their topicality.

Sophie Kikowatz, Kim Cordes and Katharina Lutat present their different explorations of the interweaving of digital and analog in textile processes under the title "digital haptic - textile dialogues with the phygital" - as translation possibilities between analog and digital knitted fabrics, as a feminist appropriation of technologies and from the multi-sensory perspective of artificial spider silk.
In "Echt jetzt", Kristina Sandu uses the fabric as an interface for multisensory experiences by merging visual, haptic and auditory elements.
In "The Boiling Purple", Shani Nahum conveys awareness of ultraviolet radiation through textiles.
In "Knots and Loops", Julia Dichte addresses the potential of textile handicrafts in a creative process, based on the findings of the investigation of textile handicrafts as a mirror of constructed femininity.

Supervised by: Prof. Bettina Göttke-Krogmann

Further Informations: Master auf der Grassimesse (burg-halle.de)

Gallery Rosemarie Jäger

The gallery has been showing both classic positions and unusual concepts of contemporary applied art since 1989. Rosemarie Jäger is always committed to quality and authenticity. The annual exhibitions create links between different trades or are dedicated to the comprehensive presentation of individual artists, established masters and young talents. Encounters and discussions are cultivated in a special way.


At the Grassi Fair, the gallery shows selected works by international artists from the fields of vessels and jewelry:

Otto Baier I Rudolf Bott I Koichi Io I Beate Leonards I Johannes Nagel I Juliane Schölß I Ja-Kyung Shin I Ayaka Terajima I Jan Wege I Christoph Weißhaar I Giampaolo Babetto I Therese Hilbert I Otto Künzli I Yutaka Minegishi I Felicia Mülbaier I Vera Siemund I Mirei Takeuchi I Takayoshi Terajima

 

The Art of Upcycling

Contemporary Jewelry from Hong Kong

For centuries, jewelry makers and goldsmiths have worked sustainably. They have created circular economies by melting and reshaping metal objects and remounting gems.

This longstanding practice is continued in the work of contemporary jewelry designers who upcycle waste to use it alongside pearls and silver, thereby turning “trash into treasure.”

The exhibition presents a selection of contemporary jewelry from Hong Kong, a city that connects local and global practices while remaining rooted in Asia, one of the world’s top waste-producing and waste-receiving areas. Understanding craft as a way of thinking, the exhibition presents an overview of artistic research into the fabric of a city in flux.

With works by Chan Po-fung 陳寶鋒, Chan Wing-sze Cissy 陳穎斯, Ching Sze-yin Cicy 程詩賢, Chong Yan-xuan Kimberly 張嫣玹, Chung Ka-pang Adrian 鍾家鵬, Shirley Lam 林秋怡, W;nk Atelier

Curated by: Dr. Anna Grasskamp, Silvia Gaetti

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Ukraine Design

„Strum – Ukraine Energy"

Strum means electricity in Ukrainian. Nine Ukrainian artists let objects from the fields of ceramics, glass, jewelry and paper, among others, speak of the source of Ukrainian energy and vitality. The designers reflect the traditions and national heritage of their country and reinterpret it.

Participating companies: TSVITE TEREN, Gushka wool, Haluzka, TVOI, Guculiya, Yalanzhi Objects, Anumoplastic, BEVZA