She is a silversmith and jeweler who proceeded from the Glasgow School of art Silversmithing and Jewellery BA with a distinction in 2017. She is inspired by the atmosphere around Glasgow such as the current architecture and manufacturing structures of the city. She plans to explore the connection between the physical scale of these buildings by reinterpreting them into silverware. She uses a mixture of textured and accurately scored silver forms which are together with hand cast jesmonite to produce a divergence between material, surface and weight. She was presented a gilded award for Small-workers 3D design which was for her three textured Sterling silver and Jesmonite bowls. She was granted a Goldsmiths’ Precious Metal Funding to produce the bowls.

She is the daughter of artists, so she grew up in the setting where there was plenty of art resources to hand and was encouraged to experiment with them. She uses scoring and folding to create mostly frequent patterns that are abstract geometric. The paper fold is relieved into a shape by hand using a small piece of paper which is then undone carefully before it is then accurately recorded into a computer line drawing. Once it has been refined and tested, the line data is sent to a desktop cutter that cuts very marginally into the paper to score it then is folded by hand. She chooses folds that are beautifully photogenic and striking which is due to the intense effects that are generated when the light hits one of the pieces.

These. are some of my vases that I have developed before I settled on the vases that are similar to each other which I will be finishing with rendering to a highest standard. I then developed the three vases by making more holes so that the flowers could be sitting in different angles.

This is the final product of my 3 vessels that will be made out of metal. I really enjoy rendering my designs as you can basically apply any materials that you like so that you can see what my vessel will look like as silverware. I designed the flowers myself using different commands e.g. bend, surface, rotate and extrude surfaces. I made the stem using the revolve command then made the green leaves using the symmetrical bend command.My Vessels are different shape vases for the flowers. I used Boolean difference to make the circle holes in the vases where the flowers can be positioned. I love how colourful the render has become. I could have made the table a different material so that the silver vases would stand out more and used less lighting. I had to change the colours of the flowers because when I used the flower material in the library as the petals on the flowers looked blurry and not like the red tulips that it was supposed to be and it was taking ages to render even when I change the resolution as shown in the images below. My technical sheet somehow came up as a link instead of my technical sheet.

I started by first doing a render of the vases with no other objects as I wanted to 3 vases to be the centre of attention.

This is my 3 final vases rendered on top of a wooden table with a couple of flowers to be able to show the use of the vases

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I found that after rendering my vessels into different materials and background look like finished pieces that looking at them as solid objects. I love that you could see how the vessels would look like in different materials to make the come to life. I could then develop these vessels more with dfferent shapes. I might then develop these by incorporating more of my crystal research I have been doing.

These are my vessel that I made using the revolve and rail revolve commands which I used the curve tool and the star tool. I then used the offset command to close the line drawing so that the vessels could have volume. I really enjoyed creating these shapes as the vessels could be used for a number of things for example, a vase, bowl for fruit or to hold things in.

These are my cutlery set that I was designing to practice with. I  found the spool easy to design using the commands that I have learned so far in the class. The knife and fork was what I struggled with as when I tried to join the handle and edges there would be a place where they weren’t joined. I used the naked edges command to check and there was naked edges in between the handle and top part of the cutlery.

I first started off my research on forms and facets about crystal forms which I took images from the internet. I used the images as a starting point to put together shapes that I could use to create different vessels. I have done some sketches of shapes that I took from the image using different medium e.g. water colour pens, watercolour paints, pencils, coloured pencils. I took the shape of the third image with the broken crystals that I then recreated with plasticine before overlapping some of them. The 3D drawings could have been drawn more 3-dimensional. I could have used CAD to draw in 3D then use tracing paper to trace which would make it more realistic and use the media to make the drawing 3D.

This is my observational drawings from my photographs of crystals. I feel that I could have added more detail into my drawings.

I then went online to have a look at some crystals which I Bought. It gave me a good idea on how to incorporate the shapes of the crystals so that I can use the shapes to create realistic looking vessels in CAD that look like my research. I took some pictures of the crystals in different layouts which I would then trace the images in Rhino for the vessels. I made some 3D models of crystal like forms and Geometric shapes.

I redrew two of my 3D objects using thicker card and used double sided tape to stick the sides together instead of glue which seemed to work well until it started to stop sticking.

I enjoyed my first CAD class that I haven’t used in long time before the class. I find it very useful and interesting to see a drawing become 2D to then being drawn in 3D using the surface commands with the solids. I liked using the etching and cutting techniques that I thought you could only do that on illustrator and photoshop which i’m not very good at. I prefer to use the surface and solid tools to create my drawing into a 3D object. I like that my solid object could be developed into a vessel e.g. a bowl or a tray for objects. it could also be made into a piece of jewellery.

She is a part of recognised London based company who designs a range of contemporary silverware and jewellery. Her collections are complete in her studio. She takes her inspirations from Japanese Gardens to create attentive objects that are sculptural. By the use of her artistic crisp, clean lines and geometry which allows her to create objects that will be a piece of practical sculpture. She has commissions for her work from The Financial Times and the Vinyard which is a restaurant in Newbury. Her elegant lines and forms which she uses to produce objects that are complete in their nature is what I like about her work.  She has such a good attention to detail which she uses in her work. Her work is completed to the highest of standards.

This piece of silverware appeals to me due to the way the designer has used the use of a hammer to create the pattern.

This appeals to me because of the way the silver bowl can lay on the table at its central axis point.

This appeals to me because I like how the dish sits at a quadrangle and the use of scoring and folding to make the sides of the dish.

This frame vase appeals to me because I like the how the frame of the vase has been designed using the technique of scoring and folding. I like the use of both of the shapes of the vase together and how it holds flowers.

This appeals to me because I like how she uses the theme of nature in her work. I like the use of the bold lines in this piece and that she has taken the lines from the leaves.

Alice Fry is an award-winning silversmith and jewellery designer. She has just freshly graduated from the Glasgow school of art. She is inclined by minerals, rocks and gemstones. She rejoices in the muddled exquisiteness of crystal and mineral creations through the average  metal.Some of her work features blue highpoints of titanium and niobium. She uses conventional metal working talents to create contemporary commissioned pieces. I love her work as I am into crystals and have also bought a collection. I love the colour contrast between the blue and the silver. I also love how she uses the structure and shapes of the crystals to create jewellery and silverware. She uses a digital sketchbook to create stunning sketches of her research, photographs of crystals and development of her work. She uses chasing and repousse to create the rock like textures and forms. She uses anodising to add a burst of colour to her designs and she also studies the effects of metals, titanium and niobium in her work.

This piece appeals to me because it has been done using a CAD render which is what i’m interested in to design jewellery. I like that it will be made in silver, niobium and gold by using the chasing and repousse technique.

This piece appeals to me because of the pattern of the crystals and how it makes the piece stand out. I love the use of the technique chasing and repousse of the crystals.

This piece appeals to me because it reflects how no two gemstones are the same and how the hexagon crystal forms into the tourmaline gemstone.

This piece appeals to me as she first uses adobe illustrator and collage to design the piece first before she decides what she materials she want to make the piece.

This wasn’t the first time that I have used Rhino CAD to make 3D jewellery and a Medal but it was the first time that I used Rhino to make vessels that will be 3D printed. I also haven’t used Rhino in a while so it was good to get back into the swing of things as I like designing on CAD. I managed to create my first vessel after I got the hang of it again. I took the first vessel and used different commands. I enjoyed using the solids to create a vessel then using the boolean intersection command to join two shapes together. I then used the Cage Edit command to change the shape of the vessel into another vessel. I like that my first vessel would be ready for the 3D printer.