Silversmithing & Jewellery

Reid Building, 13 students

Contemporary studio jewellers continue to challenge perceived boundaries and use the artefact as a way of defining a personal response to social and cultural issues such as gender, relationships, politics, and the environment. Similarly, silversmiths explore this interaction between fine metalworking and ideas, through the vehicle of the functional domestic object.

The department embraces this diversity through informed debate and discussion. It encourages students to develop a personal approach to the research and development of lively design solutions together with a knowledge of traditional and cutting edge technology and skill acquisition. This year’s cohort brings together work which examines complex narratives around heritage, history and personal experience together with a sensitivity to material.

Catalogue

Silversmithing & Jewellery Catalogue

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Set of 3 Rings
geometric brooch with an industrial aesthetic. stone settings and red glass.

from Holly Brigitte MacDonald – Vestige – 2025

from Holly Brigitte MacDonald – Vestige – 2025

from Holly Brigitte MacDonald – Portfolio – 2025

from Holly Brigitte MacDonald – Portfolio – 2025

from Holly Brigitte MacDonald – Portfolio – 2025

Silver, recycle phone camera, rubber
This piece continues to use my circular repetition design language to express recurring emotions in a reflective state. It is made with cherry blossom petals, calabash, and sterling silver.

from Echoed emotions

from Echoed emotions

from Echoed emotions

set of six brooches

from Echoed emotions

This piece is made from sterling silver, calabash, and insect droppings.

from Echoed emotions

from Regular Irregularity

from Regular Irregularity

from Regular Irregularity

from Regular Irregularity

from Regular Irregularity

from Reconfigure

from Broken, distressed and unravelling.

from Reconfigure

from Reconfigure

from Reconfigure

from Behind The Process

from Behind The Process

from Behind The Process

from Behind The Process

from Knight Shift

from WIP: 20* Objects

from WIP: On the Body

from WIP: 20* Objects

from WIP: On the Body

from Extended Design Portfolio – ‘Traces – A Story in Every Line’

from Extended Design Portfolio – ‘Traces – A Story in Every Line’

from Postcards From the Edge: Wish You Were Here – 2025

from Extended Design Portfolio – ‘Traces – A Story in Every Line’

from Postcards From the Edge: Wish You Were Here – 2025

from Objects of No Function – 20+ Objects

from Objects of No Function – 20+ Objects

from Objects of No Function – 20+ Objects

from WIP show

from Objects of No Function – 20+ Objects

from Flicker and Form

from Flicker and Form

from Flicker and Form

from Flicker and Form

from You Are Seen

from You Are From Here

from You Are Held

from You Are Heard

from You Are Seen

from Co-Symptoms, witnessing

from Co-Symptoms, witnessing

from Co-Symptoms, witnessing

from Co-Symptoms, witnessing

from Co-Symptoms, witnessing