“We’re all on a journey all the time; learning and making go hand in hand.” – For Goldsmiths’ Stories, jeweller Ella Fearon-Low spoke with artist-jeweller Lucie Gledhill for the final instalment of her three part series on inspirational women using the intersection between jewellery and art as a way to access female creative identity.

“The work we make, whether we like it or not, acts as our autobiography, circling our career.” – For Goldsmiths’ Stories, jeweller Ella Fearon-Low spoke with artist-jeweller Donna Brennan for the second instalment of her three part series on inspirational women using the intersection between jewellery and art as a way to access female creative identity.

“I like leaving people with questions rather than answers simply because I think that's what I enjoy in other people's work as well. I like not understanding something.” For Goldsmiths’ Stories, jeweller Ella Fearon-Low spoke with artist-jeweller Zoe Arnold for the first instalment of her three part series on inspirational women using the intersection between jewellery and art as a way to access female creative identity.

“The hand of the engraver is the hand of mistakes. You need the errors to give the image character — I started engraving down the shank because my hand slipped once while I was working on a ring – Some of the best engraving is done by mistake.”. For Goldsmiths’ Stories, writer Kate Matthams talks to Castro Smith about his creative inspirations, making magic in precious metal, and the power and joy of making mistakes.

In 2023 The Hugo Burge Foundation opened a state-of-the-art silversmithing workshop on their Marchmont campus supported by a generous donation of tools, machinery and books by the late Master silversmith Graham Stewart. For Goldsmiths’ Stories, Eleni Bide learns how this workshop on the Scottish Borders provides mentorship and support to early career silversmiths.

David Clarke has gained a reputation as the 'bad boy' of British silversmithing, carving a distinct route through the world of contemporary craft. For Goldsmiths’ Stories, writer Rolf Hughes reports on this contemporary alchemist, who rejoices in unlikely connections.

In the studios of Stuart Jenkins, Seth Kennedy and Callum Partridge, you’ll find subtle clues that their work with metal extends beyond the precious, and their tools beyond those of their respective trades.

For Goldsmiths’ Stories, writer Janice Hosegood explores the passion that these three accomplished metalsmiths share for the restoration, maintenance and enjoyment of vintage vehicles and the communities that form around them.

“Through my pieces, I try to instil a renewed sense of discovery that is sometimes lost in the seriousness of life, although the most important thing for me is always to say something compelling about the animal in question. Sometimes, a deeper abstraction serves that purpose.” – For Goldsmiths’ Stories, jeweller Clio Saskia talks to Kate Matthams about her background in sculpture, fossiking for sapphires in the Australian Gemfields, creating animal magic in precious metal, and the responsible and ethical use of materials.

For Goldsmiths’ Stories, artist and jeweller Bibi van der Velden talked to writer Kate Matthams about approaching jewellery-making from a sculptural perspective, working with sustainable and often unusual materials, and the creation of her exquisitely rendered and jewelled menagerie.

In her new three part series The Secret World of Jewellery, Melanie Grant delves behind-the-scenes of the jewellery industry to share the secret ways and wisdom of its pioneers. For the second episode in the series, British designer maker Sara Prentice tells the story of her journey from The Kent Institute of Art and Design to becoming the Creative Director of Garrard, via Cartier, Graff and Faberge, of making jewels fit for royals and rock stars, and the enduring importance of good design.

For Goldsmiths’ Stories, writer Sarah Royce-Greensill talks with British-Nigerian designer-maker Shola Branson about having an outsider's perspective, making things properly, and manifesting your own destiny.

Rie Taniguchi is a Japanese born, British based artist who specialises in depictions of endangered “and under-appreciated” animals in precious metals and stones, predominantly Britannia silver. For Goldsmiths’ Stories she talked to writer Kate Matthams about raising awareness through art, and a lifelong interest in all creatures great and small.