- GSA Silversmithing & Jewellery students set to unveil 2019 Degree Show collections
- The work will be on show in Glasgow from 1 – 9 June and at New Designers, London from 26 – 29 June
The Glasgow School of Art’s final year Silversmithing & Jewellery students will unveil their Degree Show collections at the end of the week in the Reid Building on the Garnethill campus, and will then take their show to London at the end of June. The talented designers have taken inspiration from a wide range of subjects to create striking and playful pieces.
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| Image: The Bauhaus meets sustainability in Will Sharp’s 3D printed jewellery collection |
With an interest in the work and teachings of The Bauhaus jewellery designer William Sharphas created a collection the draws together many different disciplines. The modular systems which he has incorporated into the jewellery were developed by applying Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design. More commonly applied to Product Design and Sustainability, Will has employed these principles to create pieces using metal and sustainable, biodegradable plastic.
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| Image: brooch featuring myriad cast metal bugs by Ellie Whitworth, |
Ellie Whitworth, winner of a Goldsmiths Precious Metalrant, has taken bugs and insects as the inspiration for a collection of jewellery made in gold and silver and base metal. Hundreds of tiny beetles, bugs and moths are combined to create shimmering brooches.
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| Image: cabbage inspired silversmithing by Harriet Jenkins |
South Square Trust Scholarship winner, Harriet Jenkins, has used the £2,500 award to create a collection of pieces inspired by cabbage leaves. A popular form in porcelain – particularly majolica – Jenkins has brought the subject matter into silversmithing creating a range of white candlesticks and bowls by electroforming on to porcelain. Elsewhere in her collection metal bowls are cast from cabbage leaves and cabbage motifs adorn spoon handles.
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| Emma Morris’s designs are inspired by playground climbing frames and squiggy toys |
Emma Morris’s work is characterised by her playful and tactile approach to making and thinking. In her collection she has inspiration from both climbing frames found in the playground and children’s tactile play toys such as balloons and squishy toys. Her collection of brooches, bracelets and rings bursts with colour made using the process of powder coating. Emma’s frames are filled with jesmonite in a way that looks to be squeezing and bursting out of them, reversing material qualities as the ‘squishy’ look of the jesmonite which is in reality a hard material.
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| Image: one of Shan Ha’s collection of silver rings |
Chinese designer Triple Shan, also a Goldsmiths award winner, has made a collection of rings inspired by historic Chinese artefacts which contain holes. Her Goldsmiths piece is a complex work in silver containing a single gold ring at its heart.
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| Image: an example of vibrant designs by Zoe Muir which combine metal with found objects and beads. |
Emma Morris, another Goldsmiths Precious Metal Grant winner, has made a collection in powder-coated metal. Using a playful and tactile approach to making she has developed a body of work that takes inspiration from playground climbing frames combined squishy toys. Zoe Muir meanwhile has combined powder-coated metal with found objects and beads in striking, large-scale necklaces and brooches.
Works on show in the Degree Show exhibition are also available for purchase.
The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2019 is open to the public from 1-9 June 2019.
Further information: http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/d/degree-show-2019/
Further information: http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/d/degree-show-2019/
The work will also be shown at New Designers in London from 26 – 29 June.
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For further information contact:
Lesley Booth 07799414474 / press@gsa.ac.uk