V & Co invites you to peer in wonder at our all new Strange Faith collection!
Catch your bad luck before it catches you and never again fear the upended salt cellar!
Just another surprising accoutrement courtesy of V & Co!
Purveyors of sundry and ephemera since 1865
Do have a look at my new blog, V & Co, which is the direction I’m taking my 3rd year work.
It’s a fictional company inspired by the aesthetic and sensibilities of the Victorian era. This collection explores the concept of superstition and luck.
If so, what did you think?
Caitlin Victoria Gregory-Thomas is an upcoming Birmingham-based designer and has created a collection of rings based on the dripping, irregular forms of stalactites. Plated in rose or yellow gold each ring is completely unique.
She is currently taking commissions on her blog, please click here for more information.
Another of her stalactite collections is currently for sale on Dixi
Caitlin is a friend of mine and, therefore, great, I’d really appreciate it if you took the time to peek at her blog, you won’t be disappointed!
So as you may or may not know, I’m a weekend volunteer at the RBSA gallery in Birmingham, it’s a lovely intimate gallery with a rich history and friendly atmosphere that I’m proud to be a part of.
As a jewellery student, my work mainly centres around the craft gallery, which, over the last few days has had an exhibition changeover. History Makers has been taken down and Sweet Dreams has been put up!
myself and Catilin taking down History Makers
As part of our internship we were assigned a cabinet and given free reign of the contents and its arrangement. Our first real experience of gallery curation.
This was particularly exciting as we got to showcase our creativity in a real-world situation, we learnt exactly what it takes to set up a gallery show.
That’s our finished case! It’s rather good if I do say so myself!
Sweet Dreamsa really lovely, bright, fun exhibition with a selection of affordable and more highly priced work featuring the talents of Lisa Swerling, Michelle Taylor, Timea Sido, Pauline Edie & Emer O’Sullivan.
The exhibition runs until the 15th of June; more information can be found here
Do come and visit if you’re in the area!
Through ceramics Michelle Taylor creates a narrative of maternal loss.
Using a combination of ceramic and textile processes Michelle connects to what she has lost; breaking down reclaimed china with industrial processes and piecing it back together using the nurturing, tactile practices of knitting and sewing.
The paradoxical materials suggest a healing process, the mending of a broken heart.
Michelle’s work is currently being exhibited at the RBSA gallery.
Through a series of material dupes and misdirection Rachael Colley’sSubdivision challenges the conventions of preciousness and longevity in jewellery. Using traditional baking methods passed down through the generations, Rachael aims to engage both the wearer and the viewer in a visual dialogue via feelings of nostalgia.
Rachael’s work spans a range of materials including gold plated silver, blood, sawdust, jelly, beef & stainless steel.
Rachael Colley is a visiting tutor on the Applied Art & Design course at Nottingham Trent and Jewellery & Silversmithing at Birmingham City University.
Lisa Swerling’s Glass Cathedrals are a series of diorama wall sculptures housing miniature scenes. Their pursuits are by turns heroic, tragic, humerous, wistful: a celebration of the human condition.
Lisa Swerling will be exhibiting at the RBSA gallery later this month.
Recreation of Girl With a Pearl Earring by Stephen Hall
Please check out Stephen’s flickr photostream; he’s so talented and a genuinely wonderful human being. A really great photographer to sit for. He’s also one of my best friends, but I’m not being bias, I promise.
Earring made by me.
The Secret Ingredient- ‘Ladies Wishing to Serve Their Country’
Designed for Nick Harkaway’s character, Edie Banister, the function of this brooch is twofold: to poison her arch enemy before he can almost end the world and reveal to him, as he chokes, that he was bested by a woman.
