Jivan Astfalck

Position: Senior Research Fellow & Course Director for MA Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Products
Email: jivan.astfalck@bcu.ac.uk

Dr. Jivan Astfalck is the Course Director for MA in Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Product and also a Senior Research Fellow

Jivan is interested in using contemporary hermeneutic philosophy, literary theory and other appropriate thought models as tools to investigate narrative structures embedded in body related craft objects. In her view, the convergence of craft, design and fine art practice is conductive to extending the theoretical vocabulary and to map out new territories where craft practice contributes to cultural production and dissemination.

Jivan combines her studio practice, which she exhibits internationally, with critical writing and curatorial practice.

Selected Publications:

Heroes and other Mythical Beasts - Reinventing Methodologies in Contemporary Crafts Practice, in ‘Heroes’, Birmingham, 2007, ISBN 978-1-904839 231

Jivan Astfalck - Love Zoo, with an essay by Bernice Donszelmann, UCE/BIAD, Centre for Design Innovation, Birmingham, UK, 2005, ISBN 1-904839-00-2

Jewellery as a Fine Art Practice in ‘New Directions in Jewellery’, Black Dog Publishing, London, 2005, ISBN 1 904772 19 6

Difference and Resemblance in ‘Six Views on a Practice in Change’, Crafts In Dialogue, IASPIS, Stockholm, 2005; ISBN 9197560901

Whose Jewellery is it anyway? in ‘Challenging Crafts’, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, 2004, ISBN 1 901085 8 3 X