Creative Links: Being Confident with Colour
- Date
- 28 Apr 2025 · 6:00PM - 8:00PM
- Price
- Pay what you can: £5 or £10
- Venue
- Online (via Zoom), UK time
- Programme type
- Business Skills Training
How can you successfully introduce colour to your jewellery or silversmithing? What material, plating, coating and other choices are available? How do you design with colour in mind? What opportunities does colour offer for customisation and development of your collections? How can you best negotiate all of the options for colour?
Join our panel of experienced makers - Coline Assade, Ella Fearon-Low, Faye Hall, Gilly Langton and Caitlin Murphy - who in-conversation will discuss the importance of colour to their work and how they have learnt to use it successfully and with confidence.
At the beginning of the event there will be the opportunity to network and talk to peers, and at the conclusion of the conversation the panellists will be pleased to answer your questions.
The exhibition Interwoven: Jewellery Meets Textiles is currently on view at the Goldsmiths’ Centre and includes work by Ella Fearon-Low, Faye Hall, Gilly Langton and Caitlin Murphy alongside over twenty-five celebrated jewellers. Visit the centre to explore the show and click here to purchase an exhibition catalogue.
Image credit: Brooch, 2024, Faye Hall. Photo: Todd White Art Photography.
FAQs:
The Goldsmiths’ Centre’s monthly Creative Links talks and networking events, designed for emerging makers and creative start-ups, provoke thoughts and questions which will enable you to reflect on where you are and how to get to where you want to be. Build your network, create links, learn to grow your business and become part of the community.
Details of our upcoming events and topics covered are listed in our What’s On. Every other month the event will be hosted online, should you not be able to attend an in-person event.
Creative Links events aim to link emerging makers with each other, whilst exploring key topics essential to nurturing business success. We run our events in person at the Goldsmiths’ Centre and across the UK with a range of partners, and every other month our events take place online, so that as many of our community as possible can exchange ideas, learn from industry experts, and form valuable connections. We do not record or broadcast our events to encourage the open sharing of ideas and experiences. Popular topics will be repeated over time, so online and in-person participations can both engage in them.
Who are the speakers?
Coline Assade is a French jewellery designer based in London. Inspired by the intersection of nature and mythology, she creates bold, colourful and joyful pieces from her studio at the Goldsmiths Centre, in the heart of London’s jewellery quarter. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in jewellery design where her exploration with enamelling and wax carving started. Her love for sketching and figurative figurative work stems from her background in illustration. She has since returned to Central Saint Martins to teach ‘Presentation and Technical Drawing’ to first-year students, sharing her knowledge and passion for hand-drawn jewellery illustration techniques. She has honed her craft working alongside renowned designers such as Melanie Georgacopoulos and Alice Cicolini while developing her own eponymous label in parallel. Her work has been exhibited internationally, from Las Vegas to Munich, with notable showcases at JCK, Objet d’Emotion gallery, LAPADA art fair, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Coline’s designs have earned her two silver awards from the prestigious Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council Awards. Through her jewellery, she aims to empower individuals to carve their own stories and express themselves fearlessly.
Faye Hall works across textiles and wearable objects that are heavily anchored to her textiles practice to drive the creation of colourful, playful and tactile wearable objects. Influenced by her drawing practice, Faye generates unique pieces of jewellery that explore form, colour and materiality.
Caitlin Murphy is an award winning Northern Irish maker. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2022 and has since returned to undertake an Artist in Residency. Between this, she became a Bishopsland Fellow 2022-2024.
Caitlin’s work is centred around high levels of accuracy and precision, folding and weaving metal as if it is paper. Her work began during the pandemic and has transitioned from paper to precious metals such as 18 carat gold.
Enjoying challenging the boundaries of silversmithing and jewellery, Caitlin’s work often has a place on the wall, table and body. She combines precious and non precious materials, in particular working with niobium. Through anodising, she has introduced colour into her work alongside texture and pattern.
Caitlin is continuing to push her work in new and exciting directions during her residency at GSA. She plans to experiment with scale and style, ensuring her work remains unique and individual.
Ella Fearon-Low is jeweller and artist influenced by decorative and domestic objects. Her work layers influences as varied as 17th-century glassware and Post-modern architecture. Her designs have been exhibited widely including at Collect Art Fair and Munich Jewellery Week, and have featured in a wide range of press from Vogue to The Sunday Times and The FT.
Working from her London studio, Ella produces mostly one-off pieces of jewellery and small art installations. Using mixed materials, she makes each piece by hand using traditional techniques. Her practice increasingly explores sculptural elements and the idea of jewellery as art – to be lived with as well as worn. Her sumptuous and highly wearable jewels are ingeniously infused with a contemporary energy.
Gilly Langton is a designer/maker with a passion for combining mixed materials to create unique one of a kind and batch production pieces of jewellery and small objects in mixed metals and hand dyed elastic.