Jewellery with Anne Marquiss Short Course

Program Overview

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This 6-week evening course is designed to provide beginners with a number of basic jewellery making techniques. Alongside this you will be taught how to research and develop a simple design as well as learn how to manufacture and finish your own individual piece of jewellery.

Program Outline

Throughout the duration of the course you will be introduced to a number of fundamental jewellery making techniques these include: Saw piercing, soldering, texturing and riveting - a technique also referred to as a ‘cold connection’.

Alongside these techniques, you will learn about a variety of different tools and materials used in jewellery making. You will be taught how to use a variety of equipment safely, whilst being guided through several different processes. Furthermore, you are provided with the opportunity to experiment.

Over this 6-week period, active discussions will take place with a focus on shape, form, pattern and texture. These discussions are combined with the chance to explore the use of various tools and their functions with the aim to develop different textures.

Through this process you will begin to understand the tolerances of different materials and develop a basic understanding of how to join different materials together. As part of this you will create a selection of test pieces that can be used for future reference.

Furthermore, you will learn how to research and develop a simple design, part of which examines the importance of proportion, scale, weight and form. Using the techniques learnt you will manufacture and finish your own individual piece of jewellery.

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Learning Methods

This course will be delivered on campus from 18:45 – 20:45 every Monday for 6 weeks. Please note there will be no class on Monday 17 April and Monday 8 May as they are Bank Holidays.

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Activity Summary

Minimum of 8 students, maximum of 10 in the group

12 hours of teaching in total over 6 evenings, 18:45 – 20:45

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Independent Study

Students are encouraged to create and maintain a personal sketchbook which reflects their own creative practice, individual interests, learnings and the work of other designers.

Participants are asked to explore different types of contemporary jewellery and inspirational themes in particular, to help generate their own designs.

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Assessment

This course is not formally assessed.

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Staff Delivering on this Course

Anne Marquiss studied jewellery and three-dimensional design prior to graduating in 1992 from Grays’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University where she also later taught.

Anne Marquiss is a jewellery designer and maker who draws inspiration from mid 20th century art and design, Scandinavian decorative art and also contemporary architectural structures.

The jeweller works with silver, gold and bronze, she designs and makes her pieces in her own bothy located next to her home in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  Experimenting with various materials, both the exploration of forms and complementary surface decoration remain a focus in her practice.

Anne Marquiss Jeweller

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