Email an enquiry to dawn.meaden-johnson@bcu.ac.uk to check course availability, limited places are still available.

Would you like to receive information about next summer’s short courses when our new programme is launched February 2011?

Email a request to dawn.meaden-johnson@bcu.ac.uk

The exhibition will offer a unique insight into our portfolio of courses and work from the following programmes will be on show

• Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design (Design Crafts)
• HND Jewellery and Silversmithing
• HND Gemmology
• HND Horology and British Horological Institute Certificate Courses
• BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing
• BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing - Design for Industry
• MA Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products

For more information about our school shows please contact info@schoolofjewellery.co.uk

For more infomation about our BIAD shows

Academic staff will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about our postgraduate programmes on offer. So why not come along and find out more. To register visit www.bcu.ac.uk/pgevents

Each of the designer-makers has been participating in a new Artist-in-Residence placement scheme which was introduced at the start of the academic year, September 2009, by Professor Jack Cunningham, Head of School.

The exhibition opens with a private view on the evening of Thursday 29th April and runs until Friday 21st May 2010 at the School of Jewellery.

Artists-in-Residences include:

• Ryan McClean (Silversmith, UK)
• Hajime Hasegawa (Sculptural metalsmith, Japan)
• Sally Collins (Jeweller, UK)
• Tusheeta David (Jeweller, India)
• Kevin Grey (Silversmith, UK)
• Jemma Daniels (Silversmith, jeweller, UK)
• Kathryn Partington (Jeweller, UK)
• Heidi Hinder (Conceptual jeweller, silversmith, UK)
• Sangeun Kim (Jeweller, enameller, South Korea)
• Nobuko Okumura (Jeweller, Japan)

For further information AIRspace and the Artist-in-Residence placement scheme visit our news page or please contact Jo Pond, Lecturer and AIR Programme Co-ordinator: jo.pond@bcu.ac.uk

Calligraphic text has been inscribed into the surface of the glass by means of a process of enamelling, sandblasting, shaping and slumping. The result is abstract forms that evoke both brush strokes and the freedom of bird flight, with applications for architecture and landscape design.

The exhibition will be open from 10am-5pm from 8-26 March 2010 (not at weekends) at the School of Jewellery, Vittoria Street, Birmingham, B1 3PA.

For further details please contact sian.hindle@bcu.ac.uk

To find out more about us why not visit us at one of our forthcoming Open Days. These Open Days are a great opportunity to look at our facilities, meet the students and staff, and to consider which course you would like to apply to.

Our Open Days take place on the following date in 2010

• Tuesday 12th January
• Tuesday 2nd February
• Tuesday 2nd March
• Tuesday 20th April

All tours will take place at 11.30am and 2.00pm.

To book a place on the tour please complete the registration form on the main Birmingham City University website.

Form to Function @ Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Saturday 9th January 2010 2.00pm

Thoughts and opinions on getting from where you are now to where you want to be in your design practice - Join us in conversation with; Dorothy Hogg MBE, Tatty Devine, Nicola Malkin and James Newman

A session about making creative decisions and identifying business options on your route as a creative practitioner. How do you make those difficult choices available to you as a jewellery artist or designer maker? What are the routes open to you in getting your work to market? How do you develop your creative aesthetic, retain professional integrity and make this all work alongside current trends? How do you balance life changes with your business practice? In conversation with artists and designers who have chosen several different ways to develop and maintain their creative practice, you will be able to ask those questions that will help you on your way to achieving what you want from you work. Through varied experience and an astounding level of expertise, you can come along and gain an insight into how others have enjoyed their journey.

Dorothy Hogg MBE

Artist jeweller, former Head of the Department of Jewellery and Silversmithing and Professor at Edinburgh College of Art, 1985 – 2007. Dorothy is a Crafts Council Trustee, recipient of the Brilliantly Birmingham award, and most recently the first jeweller in residence at the V&A.

Tatty Devine

Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden trained at Chelsea School of Art. Their fashion accessories have become a market stall to department store success story. Tatty Devine have worked with Gilbert and George, Tate and Selfridges and are about to open their third shop, in Covent Garden.

Nicola Malkin

A highly respected contemporary British ceramic artist, best known for her large scale sculptural charm bracelets and ceramic nipple tassels - bought by some extremely high profile clients. Nicola has designed for Coco de Mer and exhibits and sells work nationally and internationally.

James Newman

Creating designer jewellery from his studio in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter since 1998, in 2008 James opened his gallery, selling directly to the public. He employs age-old jewellery-making skills in combination with new technologies, creating beautiful, enduring work.

Brilliantly Birmingham 1809 @ Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 14th January 2010, 2.30pm to 4.00pm

Presented by Dr Sally Baggott – Curator of The Birmingham Assay Office

The Birmingham Assay Office offers you the opportunity to experience a glimpse of “Brilliantly Birmingham” 19th Century style. Attendees have a rare chance to inspect some original artefacts taken from the Private Silver Collection of The Assay Office. Curator Dr Sally Baggott will explain the latest fashions and cutting edge techniques being developed by the Birmingham Jewellery Industry in the early 19th century, This innovative approach led to the successful foundation of Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter and continues to this day, as evidenced by Brilliantly Birmingham 2009.

Contact Details:

To book your place please contact Prim Currie on 0121 464 1187 or email prim.currie@birmingham.gov.uk as numbers are limited.

Creative Clinics

Brilliantly Birmingham is committed to developing continuous business and professional development for designer makers. In partnership with Business Link West Midlands, Brilliantly Birmingham will host 2 days of Creative Clinics for participating regional designer makers. This provides designer makers with the opportunity to access invaluable business advice in relationship to their practice, industry and routes to market.

For more information contact prim.currie@birmingham.gov.uk

For other information please vist www.brilliantlybirmingham.com

Since 1999 when a group of local designer makers gathered together to promote themselves and their work under a single brand the event has grown into an international contemporary jewellery festival attracting designer makers across the globe.

In its celebratory year, the programme includes two exhibitions at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; FLUX, the annual selling show which attracts international entries from new and emerging designers, and a Tenth Anniversary Retrospective featuring the work of seven designers whose work has headlined previous festivals. They include this year’s profile designer Mikaela Lyons, whose own surreal illustrations inspired by old travel photographs are digitally manipulated to form the base for a number of colourful body adornment pieces and smaller scale jewellery. They are mounted onto oxidised copper settings and covered in laser cut acrylic to create fashionable, high impact and theatrical pieces.

Freelance designer and recent MA graduate from the Birmingham School of Jewellery (BCU), Mikaela said: I was really surprised and so excited to have been chosen as the profile designer in Brilliantly Birmingham’s tenth year. As a student I was always inspired by the nature of the work on show at past Brilliantly Birmingham exhibitions and to have my work included in this special year on all of the anniversary posters and brochures is a real honour”.

Also featured in the Retrospective are Kathryn Marchbank (UK) Betty Pepper (UK), Lisa Juen (Germany/China) Anke Plath (Germany), Vaishali Morjaria (Kenya) and last year’s profiled designer Sally Collins (UK). Since their early involvement with Brilliantly Birmingham as students many of the designers have gone on to forge successful international careers with their work represented in galleries around the UK and abroad.

The festival has its roots in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter a designated conservation area which employs around 4000 people and is home to more than 80 contemporary designer makers, not to mention historic firms that have been trading for hundreds of years. There are also bullion dealers, toolmakers, gem setters, the Birmingham School of Jewellery (part of Birmingham City University ) the Assay Office and a Museum of the Jewellery Quarter – the former Smith and Pepper factory left in a time-warp by its retired owners in 1981 and now a fascinating visitor attraction that reveals the area’s metal-working heritage.

Leader of Birmingham City Council Mike Whitby said “Wherever you are in the world you will be likely to find a piece of jewellery, silver or metal ware that was made in Birmingham - from Royal regalia to ecclesiastical silver and gold as well as the most stunning contemporary jewellery. Brilliantly Birmingham not only encapsulates the rich heritage of the city’s jewellery quarter and the city’s reputation as ‘workshop of the world’ but also helps nurture the new and emerging talent coming through our colleges and universities, ensuring that our heritage lives on into the future. In ten years the festival’s reputation has grown amongst the international design community and it is encouraging to see the level of engagement that it now receives from all over the world”.

This year’s Brilliantly Birmingham 2009 will also incorporate Paradigma, an international exchange between Birmingham School of Jewellery (BCU) and the Escola Massana, Barcelona and a series of professional development seminars sponsored by Business Link and the city’s Assay Office, which is also running a special open day for the public. There’s a return of the ever-popular ‘Walks in the Quarter’ and the Open Workshops which provide a unique opportunity to see behind the scenes in the picturesque studios where designers and jewellers create their designs and even to commission an original piece of jewellery. The festival will also include a number of associated events featuring exhibitions by individual designer makers such as James Newman (Jewellery Quarter) and Sara Preisler (Custard Factory) and a collaboration with Birmingham City University’s New Generation Arts 2010.

For further information www.brilliantlybirmingham.com/

The aim of Paradigma is in its’ title, to showcase examples and present diversity of; ideas and concepts, of materiality and technology, of form and function, from these two institutions, demonstrating the current range of research interests in Birmingham and Barcelona. There may well be identifiable cultural paradigms, aesthetic similarity and difference in this exhibition. However, these factors need to be viewed within a wider context, as neither the staff at Escola Massana, nor Birmingham, are exclusively Spanish, or British. As a core value, this exhibition demonstrates a commitment to the transformative power of continual communication and exchange with others worldwide and a belief in the growing internationalisation of both the School of Jewellery within Birmingham, the UK and beyond, and our friends and colleagues at Escola Massana in Barcelona.

Dates: 14 November – 11 December 2009. Monday – Friday 10:00am – 5:00pm.

Paradigma is curated by Professor Jack Cunningham

Participants: 8 staff from the Birmingham School of Jewellery and 7 staff from Escola Massana, Barcelona. Including;

UK – Jack Cunningham, Jivan Astfalck, Jo Pond, Zoe Robertson, Terry Hunt, Anna Lorenz, Karen Bartlett & Bridie Lander.

Spain – Ramon Puig Cuyas, Silvia Walz, Judy McCaig, Carmen Amador, Ursula Vinolas, Carles Codina & Elisabet Puig.

For further information please conact info@schoolofjewellery.co.uk

Day & Evening Leisure Classes 2009/10

Monday 

• evening - Stonesetting*
• evening - Engraving

Tuesday

• am- Jewellery – Beginners
• pm - Jewellery – Intermediate
• eve Gemmology (GA Diploma Practical)†
• Gemmology Foundation Certificate Course†
• Stonesetting*

Wednesday

1. am - Silversmithing
2. pm - Silversmithing
3. am - Jewellery
4. pm - Jewellery
5. evening - Gemmology (GA Diploma theory) †
6. evening - Enamelling*

Thursday

• evening - Stonesetting*
• evening - Gem Diamond Diploma (GA†)
• evening - Jewellery

TIMES

• am 9.30 to 12.30
• pm 1.30 to 4.30
• eve 5.45 to 8.15

FEES

† Additional fees are payable to the Gemmological Association.

ENROLMENT

Enrol in person at the School of Jewellery at the following times:

Monday 14th September to Thursday 17th September – 10 am to 6.00 pm

Friday 18th September – 10 am to 4.00 pm

If you have any further enquiries please telephone: 0121 331 5940 or email info@schoolofjewellery.co.uk

Image ( brooch ) Mikylla Law

Standing together in one show each maker’s collection demonstrates sensitivity to their environment often addressing contemporary social and economic issues: a sense of belonging and ideas of worth, re-using and recycling materials or making challenging imagery into wearable objects.

Bringing skills from many different art, craft and design backgrounds, this international group of makers redefine materials for use in jewellery including metals, plastics, wood, textiles and ceramics. Using 2D and 3D design principles and applying both traditional and cutting edge techniques to innovative choices of material results in a rich variety of work with strong aesthetics.

Operating outside the conventional boundaries of craft, these makers have explored the relationships between jewellery and the body, the wearer and themselves, displaying a critical undercurrent we are more used to seeing in fine art.

Participating Artists:

Yung-Tung Chen, Charlotte Daffern, Fiona Jane Hermes, You-Hua Hsieh, Tamsin Leighton-Boyce, Mikaela Lyons, Katharina Moch, Katherine Richmond, Elena Ruebel, Rickson Salkeld, Chuchart Sarunnayawatsin, Ching-Chih Tseng, Shadi Vossough, Jue Zhao.

Venue: The School of Jewellery,

When: 8th-24th September 2009

Mon-Thurs 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-4:30pm, Sat 10am-4pm

Contact and Further info:

http://crafthaus.ning.com/events/lifes-a-bench

http://issuu.com/lifeisabench/docs/lifeisabench

The symposium will be held on FRIDAY 10th July 2009 and the programme is as follows;

 Chaired by Professor Jivan Astfalck

•  10.00: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION by Jo Bloxham
•  10.20: JIVAN ASTFALCK
•  10.40: CRISTINA FILIPE (PT)
•  11.00: PETER HOOGEBOOM (NL)
•  11.20- 11.40: COFFEE BREAK
•  11.40: KEPA KARMONA (SP)
•  12.00: BENJAMIN LIGNEL (FR)
•  12.20 – 1.30: LUNCH
•  1.30: JORGE MANILLA
•  1.50: NANNA MELLAND (NOR)
•  2.10: SARAH O’HANA (UK)
•  2.30: MARIANNE SCHLIWINSKI (GER)
•  2.50-3.20: COFFEE BREAK
•  3.20: BETTINA SPECKNER (GER)
•  3.40: AREK WOLSKI (POL)
•  4.00: Q&A, CHAIRED BY JIVAN ASTFALCK
•  5.00: THANKS AND CLOSE OF EVENT BY Jo Bloxham

 (Please note the programme is subject to change)

Located in the beautiful surroundings of the 1830 warehouse, museum of science and industry, Liverpool Rd, Castlefield, Manchester. M3 4FP

Tickets £40.00includes lunch and refreshments

For more information and to pre-book your tickets please email stingofpassion@gmail.com

The Sting of Passion Exhibition

The exhibition curated by MA graduate Jo Bloxham will be held at Manchester Art Gallery from Saturday 11 July 2009 - Sunday 25 October 2009 for more information please visit www.manchestergalleries.org

The exhibition features new work by:

Jivan Astfalck (UK), Cristina Filipe (PT), Peter Hoogeboom (NL), Sarah O’Hana (UK), Benjamin Lignel (FR), Jorge Manilla (BEL), Nanna Melland (NOR), Kepa Karmona (SP), Anya Kivarkis (USA), Marianne Schliwinski (GER), Bettina Speckner (GER) and Arek Wolski (POL)

This major international conference marks the bicentenary of the death of West Midlands entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809): pioneer of industrialisation, natural philosopher and patron of the arts.

Featuring Keynote speeches from Peter Jones, Jennifer Tann (both University of Birmingham) and David Miller (University of New South Wales), the Conference is structured in six panels, entitled:

• Assessments (including Boulton’s relationship with James Watt)
• Coining for Nations
• Employer and Entrepreneur
• Sites of Industry (the Soho Manufactory, Mint and Observatories)
• The Medium is the Message (including money and medals)
• Visitors and Spies (including Russian and Swedish views)
• Patron of the Arts
• Metals (including steel and copper)
• Steam, Science & Technology
• Silver & Plated Wares
• Trade in an Age of War and Revolution
• Networks of Innovation

‘Where Genius and the Arts Preside’ also includes a concert, given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Baroque Ensemble and two exhibitions, held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (featuring films about Boulton's silver work, produced at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design) and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts

BOOKING INFORMATION

Residential Bookings Deadline by 15th May 2009

Non- Residential Bookings Deadline by 19th June 2009

Standard Delegate, Student Delegate and Day Rates available.

For futher information please visit Matthew Boulton 2009 or please contact Sandra Ilott s.e.ilott@bham.ac.uk The University of Birmingham, Tel: +44 (0)121 414 334 for information about booking.

‘Where Genius and the Arts Preside’ is organised by The University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University and The Assay Office, Birmingham

The exhibition will offer a unique insight into our portfolio of courses and work from the following programmes will be on show

•  ND Design Crafts
• HND Jewellery and Silversmithing
• HND Gemmology
• HND Horology and British Horological Institute Certificate Courses
• BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing
• BA (Hons) Jewellery and Silversmithing - Design for Industry
• MA Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products

The exhibition presents work which has never been seen before and is the culmination of our graduates hardwork and dedication. The exhibition spans the breadth of jewellery and silversmithing, ranging from work which exhibits high standards of traditional craftsmanship, to work which challenges the boundaries of our discipline with new ideas, materials and techniques.

All work presented demonstrates high levels of innovation and creativity and launches our graduates into their future careers.

For more information about opening times please contact info@schoolofjewellery.co.uk

Matthew Boulton and the Art of Making Money

In the late eighteenth-century, Matthew Boulton built an international team of artists and engineers at his Soho Manufactory near Birmingham. Together they mastered the liberal and mechanical arts of making money, and, arguably, briefly made Birmingham the art capital of the world.

This will be held on Thursday 14th May @ 5.30pm at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Room 102, Emma Jessie Phipps Building, Gosta Green Campus.

EVERYONE WELCOME

Outstanding finalists may be considered for selection to represent the UK at WorldSkills London 2011, pitting their skills against those of the best in the world.

This year the WorldSkills UK Fine Jewellery Making Competition will be hosted by Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery on 1-2 July 2009.

If you are interested in competing, start by registering online by 9th April 2009 and follow the links to the Fine Jewellery Making Competition at www.worldskillsuk.org.

If you are a student studying jewellery, check out the screening test to see if you have the skills required, and speak to your tutor, as you’ll need their signature on the completed screening test form.

Your employer will need to verify your skills if you are training in the workplace.

If you decide to go ahead, the completed screening test will need to reach the competition organiser, Gaynor Andrews gaynor.andrews@bcu.ac.uk at the School of Jewellery by 1st May 2009.

 Organisations can enter up to two competitors and competitors must be over 16 years of age.

Further information about eligibility, including conditions that apply for entry to WorldSkills London 2011, can be found at the WorldSkills UK website.

48 Weeks Later is an international collective placing emphasis on extending the conventional boundaries of jewellery, silversmithing, and metal craft. Our work demonstrates a variety of approaches to the subject area, ranging from the wearable to the sculptural, with diverging combinations of design and conceptual enquiry.

Individually we are Karen Bartlett, Maymay Chang, Sally Collins, Tusheeta David, Lucy Harvey, Holly Hendy, Susanne Holzinger, Christiana Joeckel, Hana Lin, Jonathan Olliffe, Thayuta Trichaiyaporn, and Kathryn Vosper. The group formed in 2008 whilst studying our MA in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products at Birmingham City University.

Since our MA 2008 show at The School of Jewellery, UK, we have exhibited at Teresa Teabra Gallery, Portugal and will be showcasing our work as part of the Schmuck 2009 jewellery festival for the first time this March.

48 Weeks Later will open to the public from 13 – 16 March 2009 at Studio Gabi Green, Gollierstrasse 17, Munich, Germany. Tel 089-54030254. Open 10 – 18 hours.

We hope to see you there!

MA graduates from 2007 will be joining together to exhibit their work in JAMES exchange a Jewellery and Metalwork Enquiry Show

from 13th - 15th March 2009

at Atelier Klarastrasse, Munich

For more details please download JAMES

For the first time ever the Design Space incubates (many of which are our recent graduates) will be hosting a touring exhibition starting in St Paul's Gallery, and finishing in Design Space. The exhibition includes 18 new designers, each and every one creating exquisite collections.

Do not miss this one-off opportunity to view some of the newest, most unique and bespoke jewellery, because you will be sure to be left glistening this Christmas.

Exhibition venues include the following;

St Pauls Gallery - 2nd December – 6th December

Opening times: 10am – 6pm

94-108 Northwood Street, Birmingham, B3 1TH Tel No: 0121 236 5800

'David Louis Project' at Artfull Expression - 8th December - 14th December

Opening times: 10am – 4.30pm (Sunday 11am – 3pm)

23-24 Warstone Lane, Birmingham, B18 6JQ Tel No: 0121 212 0430

Open Studios at Design Space - 13th December - 20th December

Opening times: 10am - 4pm

Unit 2, 25-33 Hylton Street, Birmingham, B18 6HJ  Tel No: 0121 523 6294

For futher details please contact :

Clare Pardoe  - 0752 611 6233 - Email: clare.pardoe@gmail.com

Admission: Free

All That Glitters…, 6.30pm, Tuesday 2nd December, School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University

We know all about ethical coffee and bananas, cotton sheets, even cut flowers. Now there’s ethical jewellery, but what does that really mean? There is no way of knowing if the gold in jewellery has come from a mine with an impressive environment record, or an unscrupulous, paramilitary operation.

The discussion will explore the Jeweller’s role in contemporary society, and the responsibilities faced but also what actually constitutes ethical - for instance, can child labour be called ethical? Should we impose our western ideas of ethical onto developing communities and should we even be mining gold at all? Almost eighty percent of newly-mined gold is used for jewellery, while there is already plenty stashed in bank vaults.

Speakers:

Lucy Siegle is a British journalist and writer on environmental issues. She has written a weekly ethical living column for The Observer since 2004 and two books: Green Living in the Urban Jungle (2000) and To Die For (Harper Collins, 2008). She reports and speaks about environmental issues on TV and radio, including ITV1’s The 5 O’clock Show with Richard Hammond, Five’s The Wright Stuff, Sky News and BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours. Siegle’s most recent program is called Guilt Trip, a series on ethical consumerism and the true cost of consumables, which will be broadcast on BBC Two in 2008.

Sharon Walker, Urth Solutions. Sharon Walker heads up URTH’s London office. She has been an editor and journalist for more than fifteen years, working for newspapers and magazines including the Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph and Shape magazine. Sharon was features editor at Harper’s Bazaar before leaving to launch URTH in the UK. URTH is a values-driven company that redefines luxury for the ethical consumer. (URTH Ethical Gold is non-conflict and uses no forced or hazardous child labour and guarantees that URTH’s values of Dignity, Integrity, Health, Peace, Community and Ecology has been met).

Stephen Webster is the ultimate diamond geezer. From a modest start in the Thames estuary town of Gravesend near London, Webster has attracted some of the world’s most alluring and glamorous clients with his unique and edgy style, combining a passion for contemporary craft values with a love of fashion, music and modern rap ‘n’ roll street styles. Stephen is four times UK winner of the ‘Luxury Jeweller of the Year’. He recently designed a collection for ethical gold company Urth.

 Call Prim Currie on 0121 464 1187 to book a seminar place. All talks are free.

www.brilliantlybirmingham.com

Fetish Fashion, 6.30pm, Tuesday 9th December, School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University

Over the last 30 years, fashion designers and style icons have stolen from the fetishist’s closet. But so have jewellery designers, with some interesting results - especially as the array of body parts open to adornment has grown. The discussion will explore jewellery in the context of fashion and specifically the growing ‘sex market’, and its role within it. Is it truly dangerous to embrace fetishism or is playing with it cute? Is it just that sex has become more overt, more discussed and jewellery designers have developed products to meet demand? Or has jewellery led the way?

Speakers:    

Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she wrote ten international bestsellers including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows and How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints). Her novels have been published in fourteen languages around the world. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

Kate Spicer has worked for most major magazines and newspapers over the years, and now writes mainly for the Sunday Times on matters fashion, beauty, lifestyle. She is an occasional broadcaster and endurance athlete and permanently, she is hungry for more of everything.

Irish Designer Paul Seville trained in Fashion and Tailoring at the London College of Fashion. On graduating he set up his studio and began to create instinctive sculptured and textured jewellery and accessories from the finest leathers and materials for a number of fashion houses including Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Romeo Gigli, Coco de Mer and Victoria’s Secret. Seville has been designing and producing an exclusive ‘Boudoir’ Collection for Coco de Mer, London & USA since 2002 which along with his work for fashion houses has allowed his unique style to develop without the stigma of the ‘Fetish’ label.

Call Prim Currie on 0121 464 1187 to book a seminar place. All talks are free.

www.brilliantlybirmingham.com

You can buy your Christmas presents at the following venues;

•    Wednesday 3rd December (10am – 4pm) @ School of Jewellery

•    Friday 5th December (10am – 6pm) @ St. Paul's Gallery

•    Saturday 6th December (11am - 5pm) @ The Flea Market, Custard Factory

•    Tuesday 9th December (10am - 2pm) @ Gosta Green Campus, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design

•    Wednesdays 10th December(6pm - 10pm) @ Old Joint Stock

•    Saturday 13th December (1pm - 5pm) @ The Sunflower Lounge

•    Sunday 14th December (11am - 5pm) @ Brindley Place Market

For more information please visit Ornez at;

www.myspace.com/ornezjewellery

The ornez group @ www.facebook.com

Email them at ornez@hotmail.com

One City: A World of Contemporary Jewellery
November 28th – December 21st 2008

For nine years, Brilliantly Birmingham has led the way in celebrating the best new and emerging contemporary designer maker talent from across the UK and around the world.

Commission a new piece direct, pick up a beautifully unique Christmas gift or discover the next big designer maker.

Experience Brilliantly Birmingham at the following locations:

• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
• BCU School of Jewellery
• Walks in the Quarter
• Open Studios across the Jewellery Quarter
• Sarah Preisler Gallery

Find out more at www.brilliantlybirmingham.com  or call 0121 464 1187 for detailed listings about events, venues and participating designer makers. Brilliantly Birmingham

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The MA in Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Products Final Exhibition is called 48 Weeks Later and runs from 9 - 28th September 2008 , Mon - Sat 10 am - 5pm.

The Private View is on 9th September 2008 6pm - 8pm.

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This exhibition was originally realised and hosted by The Museum of Arts and Crafts Itami, Japan in March 2008 in co-operation with The School of Jewellery. It was the first major contemporary British jewellery exhibition shown in Japan. It is now returning back to The School of Jewellery – dates are 27th October to 13th November 2008.

‘MASTERS AND PROTÉGÉS’ is an opportunity to show the work of several of the most significant jewellery artists currently practising in Britain along with that of some of their former students whose work they admire. The viewer will experience in this exhibition a wide variety of styles and approaches to ‘jewellery’ as an art form; some delightful and intriguing wearable objects, some challenging pieces of body decoration, philosophical statements or questions made concrete, narratives, or enigmas.

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