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shadings and lastly the black lines with very
fine painting enamel.” His work can be seen
at Studio Fusion, London and at the Scottish
Gallery, Edinburgh.(www.christoph-straube.de)
The winner of the 2019 Guild of Enamellers
Bursary Award, Valentina Boneva started
working with enamels this year to add colour
and to complement gemstones in her pieces.
Her winning piece is a complex, transformable
enamelled boat stand that deconstructs into
earrings, necklace and a ring.
(www.guildofenamellers.org)
And at the Craft Centre and Design Gallery
Leeds there is the Enamel Jewellery Show
from 29 June -28 September with enamelled
jewellery by 10 contemporary designers skilled
in a variety of enamelling techniques old and
new. (www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk) The Bovey
Tracey Craft Festival takes place from 7-9 June
in the beautiful Mill Marsh Park on the edge of
Dartmoor, Devon. As well as a high calibre of
makers across the crafts there are activities for
adults, teenagers and children, a West Country
street food area, workshops, demonstrations
and live music.
Yuki Kokai with precious metal and pearl
cherry blossom jewellery.
(www.handmadeinbritain.co.uk)
Jerwood Makers Open 2019 returns for the
seventh year with five new commissions by early
career makers, applied artists and designers
within ten years of establishing their practice.
Lucie Gledhill is one of the five finalists, chosen
from over 300 applications, who develops
jewellery collections as well as sculptural
objects. For Jerwood Makers Open she has
created a series of sculptural interlocking curb
chains, each consisting of three links made
from wood, steel and silver. “Curb chain has
been a fascination for me since I found my great
grandfather’s fob chain tucked away in an old
ice cream box under the stairs.” The exhibition
is at Jerwood Space, London from 19 June to 18
August 2019. (www.luciegledhill.com)
(www.jerwoodarts.org)
Masterpiece London returns to the grounds
of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 27 June -3
July, with exceptional works of art and design
from antiquity to the present day. Jewellery is
always well represented - this year by master
Laura Parra changed career in 2014,
from fine art and restoration to
training at Holts Academy -
“swapping gilding for gold”, she says
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Among the many talented jewellery
designers there is Dominika Kupcova, who I
featured in June 2018 at New Designers, and
has now impressively extended her laser cut
card Lines collection and her sculptural Silver
collection. Sarah Straussberg, whose work I
wrote about in March this year has new
work including an ingenious asymmetric
diamond ring, the Ivana aquamarine
double ring and the Carla 18c yellow
gold accented architectural brooch.
(www.craftsboveytracey.co.uk)
Handmade in Britain will
announce the winner, and
winner of the public vote,
of Identity, a competition
celebrating contemporary art,
craft and design, in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford on 13 June. The
exhibition of the final shortlist of 24 is
there from 14-16 June and online from 17-
25 June. The finalists include three jewellers
–Kate McLaughlin’s sterling silver over
the knuckle ring, Roberta Pederzoli, with a
sterling silver and gold-plated torque and
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jewellers like Chatila, Cindy Chao – the Art
Jewel, Fabio Salini, Sabbadini, Grima and
Eliane Fattal’s beautiful transformations of
pieces of antique jewellery into modern ones.
(www.masterpiece.com)
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