Edinburgh College of Art
We are thrilled to welcome Scotland’s Art Colleges back to Edinburgh for Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold. Elements will provide graduates of Scotland’s Art Colleges with an opportunity to exhibit and sell pieces of contemporary jewellery and silver to the Element audience.
VISIT
Dingyuan Liu believes every piece of handmade jewellery is just like a thumbprint, it is special and unique. Material is the body of the jewellery, and jewellery making is not limited to specific materials. Working on a variety of materials has allowed Dingyuan to have more flexibility when designing pieces. Different materials can be used to create works by using various techniques which affect the visual expression of the work, as well as the contextual background of the work.
Guy Howe Conners’ graduate collection, ‘Strange by Nature’, explores combining organic, natural forms with a hyper-synthetic aesthetic. With the climate crisis intensifying, Guy has developed an interest in our relationship with the natural world. Guy is particularly fascinated by our ability to take natural resources and manufacture them into contemporary goods/services. From this evolved the concept of taking a natural subject and manipulating it to appear as artificial as possible. The final pieces in the collection retain a fundamental sense of organicism but appear synthetic, almost alien.