Alexander Calder was an American sculptor who is best known for his mobile like sculptures. Calder was fascinated by the idea of ‘drawing’ with wire and experimented with this throughout his career. He would create 3D portraits of people and used line to his advantage when designing these works (right). These wire portraits are fascinating […]

Barns-Graham’s developed her signature style once she moved to St Ives in 1940. Her art was always caught between the realms of abstract and representational, though her drawings always captured movement and had a sculptural quality to them. Her drawing ‘Seventeen Lines’ in 1982 (left) is very expressive and carries a lot of movement despite […]

Over the last two weeks, I’ve really enjoyed creating this piece. It gave me the chance to create something entirely new out of discarded materials, whilst knowing my final piece would have no lasting effect of the environment. I was initially working with ideas from the icebreaker project where I became fascinated by the look […]

  Using recycled materials to design and make a neck piece based on the theme of repetition. Using inspiration from the icebreaker paper project and translating this into recycled cardboard. Looking at simple repeated shapes like cubes and cylinders to create a neck piece.                           […]

         A4 Paper Project Exploring the different ways to convey the words ‘expand’ and ‘contract’. The freedom of this project allowed me to create some really satisfying and interesting forms. I was captivated by the simple beauty of folded paper, so I continued to develop these shapes in my sketchbook and create […]

Based in Edinburgh, Ruth Leslie is inspired by the intricate details in fabric and structures seen in textiles machinery. She works by twisting individual wires using an old fashioned hand drill. They are then wrapped around frames to make jewellery playfully referred to as ‘dangling architecture’. Although the process of twisting wire is not an […]

Filipa Oliveira graduated from DJCAD and works mostly with precious metals and gemstones. Her work explores the ancient and delicate process of filigree, which is a well known technique in her native Portugal. Her work is very decorative and similar to pre first world war, art nouveaux works. Her recent drop earrings (pictured bottom left) […]

Rebecca E. Smith graduated from DJCAD, and makes jewellery under the name ‘Smith and Gibb’.  Inspired by a series of love letters exchanged between her grandparents during the second world war, she creates brightly coloured, minimalist forms mostly using enamel and silver. The colours in her work are evocative of those seen in vintage, post […]