Selection Panel for Elements Festival of Jewellery, Silver & Gold
Elements returns for its ninth instalment, 27-29 October 2023 at Lyon & Turnbull in the heart of Edinburgh.
We are pleased to announce the selection panel for this year’s Elements Festival. This year’s panellists represent the top of their fields in a range of design and creative backgrounds across the UK. Their perspectives will help us select jewellers and silversmiths that represent fine craftsmanship and innovation in design for Elements 2023.
Applications for Elements Festival of Jewellery, Silver & Gold close 3 March 2023.
GREGORY PARSONS
Gregory Parsons is an independent curator and consultant working in the applied arts. He has a background in woven textile design and making. He has worked in the textile industry (in both the fashion and interiors sectors), and as a product developer for luxury brands Burberry Ltd. and Halcyon Days.
Over the last fourteen years he has curated some seminal exhibitions across the vast spectrum of the applied arts. He has completed some sixty exhibitions to date. Picture and content research for exhibition publications has been an exciting part of this. He believes that continually learning from the amazingly creative craftspeople he has worked with develops varied and fascinating insights into creative practice.
PHILIP SMITH
Philip Smith is an auctioneer and specialist in 20th Century Design and Modern & Post-War British Art, heading up these departments for Lyon & Turnbull in the South of England.
Philip is a trustee of Court Barn Museum, the Guild of Handicraft Museum, in Chipping Campden which includes curating and organising exhibitions for the Museum.
Philip has regularly contributed to a number of publications including Ceramic Review, contributed to articles in The Times and The Telegraph, and has given lectures on the changing nature of Studio Ceramics reception in the art world at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and Arts & Crafts Jewellery at Court Barn.
CORINNE JULIUS
Corinne Julius is a freelance journalist, critic, broadcaster and curator, with a special interest in contemporary craft and design. She was for many years a reporter and producer on Woman’s Hour, made features for Radio 4 and contributes frequently to Front Row. She has written regularly for the Evening Standard’s Homes & Property, Crafts and Country Life. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2008 for services to design and craft.
Corinne has been a judge for many applied arts and design awards, including the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Metalwork. She is Chair of the Wood Awards Furniture and Product Panel, is a member of the Goldsmiths’ Company Contemporary Collection Committee and was on the Glenmorangie Collection Committee. She has also served as a Trustee of Contemporary Applied Arts [CAA].
RAJESH GOGNA
Rajesh Gogna is an award-winning Metalwork Artist & Academic working in Design Craft and Contemporary silver based in the United Kingdom. Over the past two decades, he has developed an international reputation for his contemporary silver and has exhibited across the globe in Beijing- China, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands and Germany.
He continues to contribute towards the furtherance of innovative design and critical thinking through his practice and academic research role at De Montfort University in Leicester. He also supports the growth and maintenance of the industry by offering his expertise through his voluntary role as the Chairman of Contemporary British Silversmiths (CBS), the leading association for Contemporary Silver in the UK and as a founding Trustee of the newly formed CBS Charity CIO.
Sophie Mutevelian
JO SCOTT
Jo Scott is Head of Programmes at Craft Scotland. Jo oversees Craft Scotland’s programme of events and exhibitions both in Scotland, UK and internationally. Jo works closely with partners to develop high-quality projects and supports makers to develop their practice through Craft Scotland’s learning and development programme COMPASS.
Courtesy of National Museums Scotland
SARAH ROTHWELL
Sarah Rothwell is the Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Design at National Museums Scotland, where she holds responsibility for the collections of British, European and other 'Western' glass, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery and industrial design circa 1945-present.