The Best Use of Pearls Award 2019

Congratulation to JunTao Asa Ouyang for winning the Best Use of Pearls Award. Asa’s collection subversively fuses traditional Chinese Lacquer work with 21st century dependence on technology. A painstaking approach to craft that runs counter to digital culture underpins an aesthetic which reflects the philosophy of science fiction films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.

Lacquered screens in mother of pearl become spectacles that obscure reality: their function is turned on its head, while peals appear nestled safely in ears, referencing the emergence of wireless devices and high-tech design aesthetics.

The Best Use of Non-Precious Metal 2019

Congratulation to Jing Jiang for winning the Best Use of Non-Precious Metal.

Jiang’s jewellery is a personal interpretation of the complex traditional technique of Tian Tsui, which utilises kingfisher feathers as inlay. Using physical sense as her medium, she sculpts her designs so as to bring together the refinement of traditional Chinese craftsmanship and the minimal aesthetics of western modernism.

Theo Fennell Award 2019

Congratulation to Jing Jiang for winning the Theo Fennell Best Technical Achievement Awards, presented by Caroline Broadhead. Jiang’s jewellery is a personal interpretation of the complex traditional technique of Tian Tsui, which utilises kingfisher feathers as inlay. Using physical sense as her medium, she sculpts her designs so as to bring together the refinement of traditional Chinese craftsmanship and the minimal aesthetics of western modernism.

Congratulation to Steven Lai  for winning the Theo Fennell Best Design Awards, presented by Caroline Broadhead. Steven recreates organic matter with synthetic substances such as resin, scrap metal and construction aggregate.

Congratulation to Wen-Ju Tseng for winning the Theo Fennell Best Overall Awards, presented by Caroline Broadhead. Wen-Ju’s collection ‘How valuable are you?’ scrutinises the individual’s role in contemporary society. Wryly humorous but earnestly involved, Wen-Ju diagnoses modern neuroses by taking everyday objects, such as credit card chip or the clip from a plastic bread wrapper, as the basis for her jewellery.

Autor Contemporary Jewellery Award 2019

 

Congratulation to Xuan Ma for winning the Autor Contemporary Jewellery Award 2019. Xuan’s collection offers a perspective on the ways in which the human body becomes the medium of contemporary jewellery design. By using metal as a reflective surface, she creates experimental patterns as a means to explore the beauty of the human figure. The simple pieces of metal are arranged in geometric patterns that contrast to the diverse forms of our body parts. They make visible bits of our anatomy that are normally unseen. In the process, the human form becomes a precious repository of Xuan’s highly individual vision of beauty.

 

Swarovski x Central Saint Martins Jewellery Design Project

Congratulations to Piran Caseley our current first year BA Jewellery Design student, his neckpiece inspired by the fragrances of Christian Dior has won the Top Prize! This year, the stakes were raised, with the team behind the prize working in collaboration with London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. The brief for students was to produce a jewellery piece inspired by the museum’s blockbuster Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition.

Nadia Swarovski and Shaun Leane presented the award to Piran at the Private View hosted by V&A Museum. The private view also showcased all the short-listed students’ design work as a celebration to our first year students’ hard-work and creativity.

Click here for the full article on I-D Vice has written about Piran’s winning neckpiece.

BA Jewellery Design Degree Show 2019

 

We are thrilled to invite you to our CSM Degree Show TWO : BA Jewellery Design, come and see our student’s work

Opening times 

Wednesday to Friday: 12-8pm
​Saturday: 12-8pm
Sunday: 12-6pm

Last entry: 30 mins before closing

Location: 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA

SCHMUCK 2019

 

Our first year pathway leader Andi Gut will be taking part in the Munich Jewellery Week 2019, his work will be on display at Galerie Biró – ‘Daniel Kruger and Andi Gut’

ANDI GUT’s new works, exclusively brooches, are inspired by small disturbances in everyday life. Things that don’t work perfectly, but you have to reckon with. All the better if you can see the special in them and perhaps even celebrate them.

The hole in the stocking, skulls that squint or have crooked teeth and even the deformed foot has something poetic about it as “Athletes Foot”.

The work will be on display from 15/03 – 27/04, for more information please click here

Gold Award

 

Congratulations to Isla Gilham our 2018 graduate for winning the Gold Award by Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council 2019.

Click here to see more of Isla’s work.

Vogue Vanity Fair Award

Congratulations to  Michelle Lung our 2018 graduate for winning the Wedding Vogue Vanity Fair Award at Artistar Jewels 2019.

Click here to see more of Michelle’s work.

Munich Jewellery Week / Lin Cheung

ID 2018 Pendant Rock Crystal, lanyard

Pearl Necklace – Matinee 2018 Necklace Freshwater pearls, gold

Crystal Clear 2018 Brooch Rock Crystal, gold

 

Lin Cheung, our 3rd year pathway leader will be taking part in the Munich Jewellery week at Micheko Galerie, ‘A Work in Process’.

‘For me, making is a way of putting my thoughts in some sort of order. I appreciate clarity of thinking, a sense of purpose, a point to things and I usually seek to make work that aspires to a similar sort of logic. Having just returned from a sabbatical I have been in a period of uninterrupted concentration. This has allowed my mind – and hands – to freely wander and go adrift, occasionally astray. Consequently, this solo exhibition is an eclectic mix of new jewellery pieces that reflects some of the broad and diverse range of thoughts that have occupied my mind. Some thoughts are clear, some are vague, some are important and some are not – everything is a work in progress.’

Micheko Galerie

Opening: Tue 12.03 15:00

Regular hours:

Tue 12.03 11:00-21:00

Wed-Fri 13.-15.03 11:00-19:00

Sat 16.03 11:00-17:00

Sun-Mon 17.-18.03 11:00-15:00

Tue-Fri 19.-22.03 14:00-19:00

Sat 23.03 11:00-15:00