Jewellery in Recycled Materials Short Course
Course description
Course overview
During the course, students explore the cold connections that can be used to make jewellery with materials where soldering is not possible, such as gluing, pegging, riveting, stapling and stitching. Students use riveting to combine parts together to make earrings and a pendant.
Students have the opportunity to use jewellery hand tools in the fully-equipped jewellery studio at Central Saint Martins and attach silver findings. By the end of the course, students will have at least 2 pieces of finished jewellery and understand a range of cold connections.
Students may wish to progress to other jewellery short courses to continue developing the technical skills needed to bring their ideas to life.
Who this course is for
This short course is aimed at anyone with an interest in jewellery making using recycled materials. It would an excellent fit for accessory designers who want to understand different processes or jewellers wishing to expand their material choices. No previous experience is necessary.
Key information
Topics covered
- Suitable recycled materials
- Cold connection techniques
- Making the materials into finished jewellery
- Experimental work made by international jewellers
- How to use the appropriate tools
Learning outcomes
- Know how to source a range of suitable materials
- Understand a range of suitable cold connections
- Be able to design and complete pieces of jewellery using riveting
- Be able to attach silver findings to make earrings
- Continue at home with limited equipment necessary
- Be familiar with the exciting work made by jewellers using recycled materials
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Apron
- Notebook
- Please wear closed toe shoes and bring something to tie back long hair
Tutor
Sarah King
Sarah King is an established jeweller specialising in mixing precious and non-precious materials in jewellery and using them to make sculptural and tactile pieces. She has sold her work through department stores such at Liberty and Barneys, New York and the art jewellery gallery Jewellers' Werk Galerie in Washington DC. Since 2000 she has been experimenting with cast bioresin and these works are in public and private collections (including Crafts Council and the British Council), and has worked on many books on contemporary jewellery. She has won the Association of Contemporary Jewellery Prize and several Goldsmiths' Craftmanship and Design Awards.
She has taught specialist classes in plastics, wood and silver jewellery for over 15 years and in 2019 published her first book 'Creating Jewellery in Wood'. For 16 years she was based in the innovative makers hub Cockpit Arts in London and now lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex.
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