The Glasgow School 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 Elements audience.
VISIT
Alice Biolo has been recently exploring the theme of pain and trauma in her work throughout the past year, opening a conversation about mental health with the public and the aim to normalised human emotions.
In her latest collection 'Under the Skin' she is interested in the hidden side of the human soul, translating it into her designs by creating hidden compartments, hiding it away from the public eye, to establish an intimate relationship only with the wearer.
Her designs are characterised by the use of sharp stainless-steel pins, representing the trauma, and occasionally stones.
These elements are enclosed in sterling silver structures, carefully crafted employing a laser welder to preserve the quality of the stainless steel and the stones without applying heat through traditional techniques such as soldering.
Lucy Johnson’s graduate collection is derived from her deep appreciation of contrasting materials and the environments that surround her. The collection, For The Love Of Concrete, is comprised of both wearable and sculptural objects as a homage to brutalist architecture. Within her work she use’s photography as a primary tool for exploration, allowing her to visually dissect construction techniques of brutalist buildings in Glasgow and the North of England. The collection places emphasis on juxtaposing precious metals with materials from the urban environment to create pieces of hand held architecture. Her collection, For The Love Of Concrete, is designed to reinforce and appreciate the individual craft of mid century architects and celebrate the power of brutalism.
By Shannon Tofts
Niamh Wright's graduate collection “Felicity: The Ability to Find Appropriate Expression for One’s Thoughts“ is a contemporary novel into the inner workings of Her mind when overwhelmed by emotions. The body of work is generated from painting and drawing exaggerated shapes taken from needlework and hand-weaving processes as a form to self-soothe. During this project, Niamh has explored the boundaries of combining different materials to represent the feelings she experiences. Through laser cutting acrylics as a base to support the detailed mother-of-pearl shapes, Niamh merges them together with neon threads, embellishments of silver and hand-woven wire objects to create a fusion of vivid, complex structures.