The Glasgow School of Art is delighted to announce the appointment of the first programme lead of MDes Silversmithing and Jewellery, a new programme within the School of Design for the 2026-27 teaching session beginning later this year.
lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion and reparation. Their practice is based in polydisciplinamory, entangling making, writing, curating, collaborating, and performing. lambert holds a PhD in artistic practice in visual, applied and spatial arts from Konstfack University of Arts Craft and Design in Stockholm Sweden. Their current research is an investigation around cruising with craft as a companion to explore how its languages and discourses contribute to processes of equity such as decolonisation and can challenge ivory tower academic structures through its cracks and margins, the place of the undercommons. Collaborating and kinship making with artists and institutions of a vast array of disciplines has the potential to reassemble or reconfigure the current cultural systems of queerness and body politic while shattering the boundaries academically imposed on craft as a field.
“The start of a new postgraduate programme in the School of Design is a rare event and made more significant as it is part of our award-winning world-class Silversmithing and Jewellery department.” said Professor Stephen Bottomley, Head of the School of Design.
“Lambert’s approach to teaching and practice is original and polydisciplinamorous, thus perfectly suited to the incredible breadth of what contemporary jewellery can be. The School of Design and I are delighted to welcome Lambert and a new programme leader. We look forward to seeing this master’s programme develop within a dynamic ecology of events and activities alongside our other three semester / one-year master’s programmes that include Fashion, Interior Design, Product Design Engineering, Graphics, Illustration and Photography.”
“The current stability of arts, crafts and design in the academy is daunting at a global level, yet at the same time could be optimistically viewed as exciting. As past infrastructure and known methods become unstable there are more opportunities and possibilities than ever.” Says lambert.
“The Glasgow School of Art and its surrounding communities have already been engaging in approaches and conversations that are necessary and critical and I am greatly looking forward to joining and collaborating in these discourses. I am humbled to be involved in such a rare opportunity to participate in the development and implementation of this new MA program.
“I approach pedagogy as part of my practice and I am looking forward to not only facilitating and tending but learning from/with students as they explore what drives their practices, and the fields they want to communicate with and participate in. I hold the perspective that an MA is a time to develop and fortify confidence in knowing what bare essentials are necessary for a practice to continue on. I am interested in how individuals define their own success and how I can best work alongside them within the experimental space of the institution to encourage failure, work through uncertainty, and to develop ethical methods to research and communicate that best suit each individual.“
lambert was a 2019 Research Fellow at the Australian National University (Canberra, AUS) and a 2020 Curatorial Fellow at Center for Craft (Asheville, NC, U.S.) curating Desire Paths with co-fellow Lauren Kalman. They hold an MA in Critical Craft Theory from Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC, U.S.) and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI, U.S.) as well as bachelor’s-level degrees, or minors in: psychology/human sexuality, art history, ceramics, metalsmithing, printmaking, and American Cultural Studies, from Wayne State University, (Detroit, MI, U.S.) and industry apprenticeships in leather working, and semi-antique rug repair (Michigan, U.S.). They have previously worked as an independent consultant and project manager within creative industry, working with: managing human resources, workplace conflict resolution, production flows, material resourcing as well as developing and launching new product lines.
Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (New York, New York, U.S), Museum of Fine Art, Houston (Houston, Texas, U.S.), CODA (Apeldorm, Netherlands) Homografiska Museet (Dals Långed, Sweden) The Havgapet Collection, (Sleneset, Norway) and published in texts such as “Cultural Affairs: Art Without Borders” published by Degruyter. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally including at: Turner Contemporary, (Margate, UK) ArkDes, and Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, (Stockholm, SWE), Museo de la Ciudad, (Valencia, ES), Museum Angewandte Kunst, (Frankfurt, GER), Craft ACT (Canberra, AU) and Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis, MN, US.) lambert represented the U.S in Triple Parade at HOW Museum, (Shanghai, CN), represented the best of craft in Norway during Salon del Mobile, (Milan, ITLY) and was the invited feature at the Benaki Museum, (Athens, GRC) during Athens Jewellery Week. They have actively contributed writing to Studio Magazine (CA), C Magazine (CA), Metalsmith (US), Klimt02 (ES), The Vessel (NO), Surface Design Journal (US), Art Jewellery Forum (US), Current Obsession (NL) and Garland (AUS) and maintain a running column, ”Settings and Findings” in Lost in Jewellery (ITLY). They were the guest editor of Decorating Dissidence Journal, issue #15, “Tools, Use, Mastery” (UK).
lambert currently is based in Stockholm Sweden and was born in Detroit MI, US.
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About The Glasgow School of Art (GSA)
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s leading independent university-level institutions for education and research in the visual creative disciplines. Ranked eighth in the QS 2026 World University Subject rankings, the GSA is the only institution in Scotland in the global top 10 for art and design and one of only three institutions within the UK.
Our studio-based, specialist, practice-led teaching, learning and research draw talented individuals with a shared passion for visual culture and creative production from all over the world. Originally founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, the School’s history can be traced back to 1753 and the establishment of the Foulis Academy delivering a European-style art education. Today, the GSA is an international community of over 3500 students and staff across architecture, design, fine art, innovation and technology in our campuses in Glasgow and Altyre (in the Scottish Highlands) and a thriving Open Studio programme delivering non-degree provision to over 1500 students annually.
