Jewellery & Metal (MA)

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…trailing over curbs paving stones...tripping over (un)cut cobblestones…sun glistening off mica.. through the city…finding ancient treasures and or ancient junk… let them narrate your experience…or…block the bankers at canary warf from leaving the building…see the faces walking past merge into one amorphous blur…think of futures and their possibilities…these contemporary artefacts strewn as dust covered relics…take part in/or start protests with banners of handicraft…see the colours glisten off metallic surfaces and glass into a kaleidoscopic mirage…review antique stalls with objects requiring careful repair…seek their resonances…navigate its myriad underground tunnels…intersecting like the electric signals in the mycelium rippling beneath our feet…these are the outcomes…the contexts…and…the journeys that our graduates undertake…london becomes the complex site of new dimensions of inventive and creative practice… often in London for the first time…finding ways of navigating these areas as new passengers…a london emerging from the culture shock that saw the streets empty…often…students holed up in single rooms…in this setting…jewellery and metal students have undertaken two years of intensive study into those matters which act as the anchors for our discipline…body…material…metal…identity…materiality…place…from these pivots points you will find work which reaches out in all directions…through interdisciplinary fascination and the magnetic pull of art and design as conduits for expression and reflection…for reflexivity…a two years which has demanded a navigation of the virtual and the actual… we are jam…sticky….and excellent at rendering down components into cohesive explorations…we are jam…and…we make stuff…
Students
Sponsors
Burberry Scholarship
Theo Fennell
The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers
Graham Hughes Award