For his series on early career jewellers and silversmiths, writer Jonathan Foyle speaks with Francisca Onumah about fusing her unorthodox and poetic style of making with a profound sense of place and identity.

“Jewellery is packed full of meaning and can take on new significance as you go through life.” - For Goldmsiths’ Stories, jeweller Naomi Tracz, talks with Curtis McGlinchey about rediscovering the complex ways people and memories live in the jewellery we wear.

Describing her practice as “a celebration of geometry in all its poetic forms”, Yvonne Gilhooly uses traditional goldsmithing skills to create sculptural pieces both as adornment and as standalone objects. For Goldsmiths’ Stories, she spoke with Sarah Jurado about a unique commission spanning three generations.

“If I can get curious, I can get creative” - Writing for Goldsmiths’ Stories, artist Simone Brewster finds a kindred spirit in fellow creative wanderer and cerebral silversmith, Juliette Bigley.

Amanda Mansell’s career defining concentric ring design marked a special point in her life as a goldsmith, and came to represent one of her most profound commissions - “A circular shape which symbolised the beginning and end of all things”

A shared cultural and artistic exchange between Japanese and British silversmiths has forged a remarkable and unmistakable tradition of excellence. Goldsmiths’ Company Librarian, Eleni Bide explains why.

“Working with bronze offers a chance to engage with a time-honoured material that stretches across millennia, cultures and disciplines,” says architect-turn-jeweller Ifeanyi Oganwu. Sitting down with writer Mazzi Odu, Ifeanyi traces the foundations that lay beneath his work to reveal a design language informed by a deep respect for material history and urban environments.

“The industry used to be a very unwelcoming place, so if I can help young people, that’s what I’ll do.” - For Goldsmiths’ Stories, master silversmith, Rod Kelly talked to Curtis McGlinchey about sharing old skills using modern technology in a time of isolation.

“Artists, designers and makers are proving that weaving can be manoeuvred in near endless directions.” Says Victoria Woodcock as she explores the application of weaving techniques across disciplines, from loom to loupe.

Following on from her first book Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry, Melanie Grant examines the evolution of jewellery as art with a new five-part series created during lockdown with some of jewellery’s modern masters.

Jeweller Lin Cheung is shaking up tradition, and “…her subversive reinterpretation of familiar, hackneyed forms makes us smile and rethink our relationship to jewellery and its place in our lives…” says writer Rachel Church.

“Starting from the age of four or five I loved watching the community artisans and participating in their crafts of woven craft and basketry, I was encouraged to play with materials and enjoyed how these materials could be manipulated into an object.” - for Goldsmiths’ Stories, writer Mazzi Odu spoke with artist Jariet Oloyé about her unique approach to handmaking, and treating cultural inspiration as a living process.