Creative Links: The Price is Right?
- Date
- 14 Jul 2025 · 6:00PM - 8:00PM
- Price
- Pay what you can: £5 or £10
- Venue
- Online (via Zoom), UK time
- Programme type
- Talks, Business Skills Training
Would you like to sell your work through shops, stockists or galleries? How do you determine the wholesale price of your jewellery or silversmithing? What costs should you take into account? How do you quantify these? What impact does the retail mark-up have on your prices?
Pricing your work is not an exact science, but awareness of the factors to take into consideration will help you make this calculation. Join our panel of experts - Alison Skeates, Buying Director at EC One, Jessica Rose, Founder of the Jewellers Academy, Jade Mellor, Jeweller and Gallery Curator at Gill Wing Jewellery and Emily Cranny, Arts Consultant at the New Ashgate Gallery – as they explore the dos and don'ts of wholesale pricing and ways to determine if selling this way is right for you. Alison, Jessica, Jade and Emily will draw on their experience of working with makers, in leading shops and galleries, to inform the discussion.
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.
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?
Alison Skeates is co-owner and Buyer Director at E.C. One, a London based jewellery boutique selling work by both up-and-coming and well-established designers. The shop also has an in-house workshop in which they craft beautifully bespoke pieces with a focus on sustainability.
Jessica Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur who has founded multiple 7-figure businesses including the London Jewellery School, Jewellers Academy and Jewellers Academy Brighton. From starting her own jewellery business aged 19 she has now helped over a million people learn to make jewellery through online courses at Jewellers Academy, as well as in-person training centres that were originally based in Hatton Garden and more recently have opened in Brighton.
Jess is passionate about providing a community for jewellers to learn skills, develop and grow in their making skills, but also in how to start, grow and run successful, profitable and sustainable jewellery businesses. She is author of the best-selling book 'Start and Grow a Profitable Jewellery Business', has a thriving weekly podcast, an active YouTube channel and is passionate about supporting jewellers to 'price for profit' so that they can make a fair living from their craft.
For more help and support with your pricing, Jess has a free pricing masterclass and spreadsheet to help makers work out their own best practices in pricing. This can be downloaded here: https://www.jewellersacademy.com/pricing
Emily Cranny graduated from Falmouth University in 2014 with a First-Class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. Having worked with the New Ashgate Gallery as a volunteer she joined the team as an Art Consultant in 2020, and is responsible for programming the gallery’s jewellery collections, an assisting the curation and programming of specialist silversmithing and craft exhibitions. The New Ashgate Gallery is a non-profit gallery in Surrey with a history over 60 years with an ethos of supporting emerging makers in the craft sector.
Jade Mellor brings a wealth of practical knowledge to this talk on pricing jewellery. Having spent the last ten years working with hundreds of designers and their collections selling at Gill Wing Jewellery Gallery, Jade has gained a deep understanding of the retail side of the industry. Crucially, alongside this role, Jade has consistently developed her own jewellery practice and managed her own business, with her designs finding homes in various retailers across the globe, from Dubai to San Francisco. This dual experience offers a comprehensive understanding of both the maker's and the seller's perspective.