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