Before I came to university I was coming from a jewelry design background, I spent around a year and a half studying jewelry design in the hustle and bustle of Hatton Gardens in Central London, I loved every second of it, but I found it all very technical, I was taught pure hand crafted skills and was lucky enough to work with fine metals including silver and pure gold which is something that is priceless, but I really wanted to explore it on a more contemporary basis, push the boundaries of tradition, and I felt studying contemporary crafts would give me the chance to experiment and explore the concept of jewelry further and allow me to have more crazy moment with it and incorporate all these other processes and materials i’d be introduced too.
Since being at university, I’ve been pretty distracted by general life chaos and all the projects going on, but I took a little visit the other day to the section of the design center that has the jewelry benches and all the equipment and I felt this bubble of excitement slowly grow, I was thinking of how nice it would be to get back on the bench and make some crazy rings! I really want to try and make some time to do this, I feel it may also help with this creative block I seem to have going on, maybe doing something on the side that is more of a self directed personal mini project may help my brain to wake up again. Sometimes it’s nice to go back to the comfort of doing something you know so well.
Here are a few pieces I worked on back when I was studying in Hatton Gardens:
Wax casting
Wax model turned into silver casts
snake ring made from silver wire drawn down by hand
from crafts « WordPress.com Tag Feed http://ift.tt/17yIquN
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment