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a group which we created on Facebook to invite people to the jewellery exhibition / show in March .
Monday 1 February 2010
Sentimental Objects
If you would like to get invilve in this project, and you want to donate an object which is of sentiment to you , which is of no / little value. We will use this to incorporate into our jewellery collection , which will be available to sell at our exhibition/show at the Broadcasting tower.
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Tuesday 26 January 2010
Jewellery making competiton
'''Fine Jewellery Making
Could you represent the UK in Jewellery making? Open to those studying a related Jewellery programme or employed within the trade. You will be working to a design that challenges your skills in making fine jewellery.
Enter now!''''
Could you represent the UK in Jewellery making? Open to those studying a related Jewellery programme or employed within the trade. You will be working to a design that challenges your skills in making fine jewellery.
Enter now!''''
A jewellery making competition, maybe would be good to enter?
Visit to the Craft Centre and Design Gallery 26/01/10
Lauren and I went to the gallery today and had a look at all the handmade jewellery that was for sale. The exhibition was called AMORE ,they were all very nice and here are some photos I took.
New Idea
Well our idea is changed now as after our tutorial with a tutor today she didn't think our project was 'collaborative' enough. So Lauren and I sat down and discussed how we could make it better, we decided that instead of making up a whole idea we decided to use a bit of both our ideas and combine them together. Initialy Lauren and I had totally different themes for the jewellery we were going to be making. But now we have came up with the idea of using the idea of the rust effect of the Broadcasting Tower and to have some sort of sentimental value alongside it. We were thinking of going into the building and going to each of the flats asking the students what they feel are sentimental to them and if they would donate something for us to put in the jewellery. Alongside this we will take a photo of the people who have contributed and make a book containing pictures of the people alongside what is sentimental to them. At the end of the project we are hoping to hold a jewellery event inside Broadcasting Tower . It will attract alot of students of Leeds Met and the students who live there as its right in the middle of it all.
CHANGE OF PLAN!!
Our orignial proposal has now changed - we are linking our ideas together so that the theme towards our jewellery designs is a joint descion, therefore more collaborative..
Monday 25 January 2010
Collaborative Strategies Proposal
Proposal – Collaborative Strategies
For my collaboration project, I decided to specialise in Jewellery Design, because for one of my briefs last year I made a necklace and enjoyed experimenting and working with metals in the workshop. I am collaborating with Lauren Cooley a girl who is on my course who is also specialising in Jewellery Design.
Lauren and I will together be
collaborating with a couple of Jewellery
Designers who we have found outside of the
university. We are hoping to visit their
workplace/workshop and watch them work and
get experience and to improve our skills and
learn more technical processes in Jewellery
Making. As well to learn how they came around to setting up there own business in specialising in Jewellery.
Lauren and I are intending on holding a jewellery show towards the end of the project, alongside the Jewellery Designers who had helped us and hopefully we are able to sell some of our pieces. Although Lauren and I are collaborating we both have different ideas for our own designs for our jewellery. We will both be making different style jewelleries.
We will need to sort out a venue where we set up our show, we were thinking about having it somewhere different other than the usual indoor market, perhaps in the middle of Briggate as it’s a very busy part of the town and lots of people will be passing by. Another idea was to collaborate with a fashion show and have the models wearing our jewellery and also having a stall to sell our pieces by the fashion show.
The theme of my jewellery design is based on experimental shapes in modern architecture. Combining contemporary style with traditional materials, and maybe explore the idea of rust on buildings. How rust forms and how this can shape and form onto jewellery, and onto the body. I am basing my main idea on a site, the Broadcasting Tower in Leeds. I have always been interested in photography of buildings at different view points and perspectives. So I am basing my designs from my photographs of the buildings at different angles. I intend on making wearable jewellery, necklaces, bracelets, earrings. I will be making multiples of each final design as I will be selling these at the jewellery show.
The collaboration between Lauren, me and the other Jewellery Designers will work, by them letting Lauren and I to visit their work places, to learn new skills and techniques and to use these towards my own designs. I will explore how they work in their business and how they make their jewellery. By talking through my ideas with them, hopefully they will help me better my design ideas for my collection. We will keep in contact throughout the project with the designers by phone, email, and through our blog which Lauren and I have created.
Lauren and I will be communicating daily via phone, email, through postings to our blog, and in university where we will meet and discuss our ideas for the project. I will have a sketchbook, which will contain my research, ideas, and designs.
I will get support and guidance through tutorials with Yvonne and Paula. The main places where I will be using to work are the plastic and metal workshop at the college, using drop-in sessions, and if they allow us then the workshops of the Jewellery Designers where we will be visiting. I intend on getting into the workshops early on so I can experiment with the materials and workout which is best to work with, as I am making a few to sell. This will be time consuming so I need to give myself enough time to make these.
The Craft Centre and Design Gallery
The Craft Centre & Design Gallery is situated by Leeds Library. Lauren and I are going to visit the gallery tomorrow to have a look at the jewellery exhibition. If they let us take photos , I will post them here tomorrow. Here is the link to their site.
The inside of the the gallery.
The current jewellery exhibition going on at the gallery is called 'AMORE' its a mix showcase of jewellery, ceramic, and works in mix media. The exhibition is running from Saturday 23rd January - 20th March 2010. Here is the link to the page
Initial Proposal Ideas - 25/01/10
For this Collaborative project I propose to focus primarily on Jewellery design because I used this discipline in a project last year and really enjoyed working with metal and the different processes related to Jewellery design, I now eventually want to come up with some of my own innovative pieces and put on a new “different style” Jewellery show collaborating with a number of different Jewellery Designers and Zara Lo who is also focussing on Jewellery design for this project. To make this possible I first of all intend on spending a few weeks visiting different Jewellery Designer's work places learning different processes to help me further my knowledge from different individuals, I intend to watch over them and the way they work hopefully learning new processes to help me with my designs.
Please find attached to this proposal a copy of the emails from the Jewellery Designers that are interested in working with me on this project.
Hopefully I will learn a lot from working with a few different Jewellery designers, obviously each designer will have there own individual way of working which will benefit me and my work on a range of different levels, I will learn a variety of different processes, materials, tools and also about there business ethics. From this I then intend on independently working outside of the university to put on a Jewellery show along with the Jewellery designers I visited and Zara Lo (the more help the better), and hopefully this will lead to great advertisement for all the Jewellery Designers and we will all hopefully be able to sell some of our pieces (the incentive to get the designers interested in working with me and letting me visit them in their work place is that they can get involved with the final show and sell there work there).
Obviously once I have worked with the Jewellery Designers, I will need to sort out a venue for the show etc along with their collaborative ideas. I initially want to put on a show that's original and different, maybe an outdoor event along the middle of Briggate in Leeds, much like the very popular, trendy Camden Market in London, as I think more people will get to see the show that way seeing as its the busiest part of Leeds
Following on from this I needed to come up with a theme for my actual Jewellery designs, initially I started with the materials I want to use - natural, found objects, from this I decided to base my designs around famous landmarks/places in England, the incentive for this is that I want to focus on the sentimental value of found objects, for example a rock from Stone Henge will have more sentimental value then a rock found on a random road as Stone Henge is a popular tourist attraction and if put it into a piece of jewellery it is more interesting as it has background values to it.
I am also extremely inspired by fashion and jewellery from the 1920's, which I am going to use as inspiration for the style in which I design my jewellery pieces; sophistication and elegance are the main elements I am going to take from the 1920's.
I also intend on using my design label name “LRose” when packaging and selling the jewellery that I produce.
Places in which I want to visit are as follows:
o Big Ben
o Stone Henge
o Windsor Castle
o Houses of Parliament
o No. 10
o Piccadilly Circus
o Tower Bridge
o Trafalgar Square
o Lake Windermere
o Loch ness
o Snowdonia
o The Eden project
o The white cliffs of Dover
o Sherwood Forest - Robin Hood
o York Minster
o Hadrian's Wall
o Lake District
o Shakespeare Globe
o Camden Market
o London Dungeons
o Angel of the north
o The Cavern Club Liverpool
But along with using famous places I intend on getting contribution from the general public and what they find sentimental to them, I intend on doing a survey in the centre of Leeds (as this is where the show would be) to find out what people would want the jewellery to involve. I am also going to email a range of people and see if they would be interested in sending me something that they think is particularly sentimental to them and I would personalise a piece of jewellery involving the object for them. I want to focus the idea of “Sentimental Values” within an object and how it can make something more valuable to the particular person.
I intend on also visiting a range of different museums, galleries and exhibitions to get more inspiration for my jewellery designs.
Bibliography
o Jewellery from Natural materials - By Beth Legg - published by A&C Black 2008
o Jewellery Making techniques book - By Elizabeth Olver -published by Apple Press 2008
o Fabulous Jewellery from Found Objects - By “A Lark Jewellery Book”- published by Lark Books 2007
o Design and make - Non - precious Jewellery - By Kathie Murphy - published by A&C Black Publishers 2009
Please find attached to this proposal a copy of the emails from the Jewellery Designers that are interested in working with me on this project.
Hopefully I will learn a lot from working with a few different Jewellery designers, obviously each designer will have there own individual way of working which will benefit me and my work on a range of different levels, I will learn a variety of different processes, materials, tools and also about there business ethics. From this I then intend on independently working outside of the university to put on a Jewellery show along with the Jewellery designers I visited and Zara Lo (the more help the better), and hopefully this will lead to great advertisement for all the Jewellery Designers and we will all hopefully be able to sell some of our pieces (the incentive to get the designers interested in working with me and letting me visit them in their work place is that they can get involved with the final show and sell there work there).
Obviously once I have worked with the Jewellery Designers, I will need to sort out a venue for the show etc along with their collaborative ideas. I initially want to put on a show that's original and different, maybe an outdoor event along the middle of Briggate in Leeds, much like the very popular, trendy Camden Market in London, as I think more people will get to see the show that way seeing as its the busiest part of Leeds
Following on from this I needed to come up with a theme for my actual Jewellery designs, initially I started with the materials I want to use - natural, found objects, from this I decided to base my designs around famous landmarks/places in England, the incentive for this is that I want to focus on the sentimental value of found objects, for example a rock from Stone Henge will have more sentimental value then a rock found on a random road as Stone Henge is a popular tourist attraction and if put it into a piece of jewellery it is more interesting as it has background values to it.
I am also extremely inspired by fashion and jewellery from the 1920's, which I am going to use as inspiration for the style in which I design my jewellery pieces; sophistication and elegance are the main elements I am going to take from the 1920's.
I also intend on using my design label name “LRose” when packaging and selling the jewellery that I produce.
Places in which I want to visit are as follows:
o Big Ben
o Stone Henge
o Windsor Castle
o Houses of Parliament
o No. 10
o Piccadilly Circus
o Tower Bridge
o Trafalgar Square
o Lake Windermere
o Loch ness
o Snowdonia
o The Eden project
o The white cliffs of Dover
o Sherwood Forest - Robin Hood
o York Minster
o Hadrian's Wall
o Lake District
o Shakespeare Globe
o Camden Market
o London Dungeons
o Angel of the north
o The Cavern Club Liverpool
But along with using famous places I intend on getting contribution from the general public and what they find sentimental to them, I intend on doing a survey in the centre of Leeds (as this is where the show would be) to find out what people would want the jewellery to involve. I am also going to email a range of people and see if they would be interested in sending me something that they think is particularly sentimental to them and I would personalise a piece of jewellery involving the object for them. I want to focus the idea of “Sentimental Values” within an object and how it can make something more valuable to the particular person.
I intend on also visiting a range of different museums, galleries and exhibitions to get more inspiration for my jewellery designs.
Bibliography
o Jewellery from Natural materials - By Beth Legg - published by A&C Black 2008
o Jewellery Making techniques book - By Elizabeth Olver -published by Apple Press 2008
o Fabulous Jewellery from Found Objects - By “A Lark Jewellery Book”- published by Lark Books 2007
o Design and make - Non - precious Jewellery - By Kathie Murphy - published by A&C Black Publishers 2009
Artist Inspiration
Kristin Mitsu Shiga
Jan Arthur Harrell
Both are Jewellery Designers that use found objects as inspiration for threre pieces.
Lauren x
Jan Arthur Harrell
Both are Jewellery Designers that use found objects as inspiration for threre pieces.
Lauren x
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