MA/MFA Jewellery & Silversmithing

Jewellery & Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art cultivates individual excellence through rigorous research and creative practice. It has a philosophy that encourages a wide range of approaches, from the traditional Gold and Silversmiths’ trade, to the contemporary influences of art, craft, design, technology and science.

The MA and MFA programme offers the postgraduate student an excellent opportunity to develop to a higher level an original and significant body of work. Graduates emerge from the College with the confidence to establish themselves in the field as designer-makers and industrial designers. Recent employers have included: Edinburgh Assay Office; Gucci, New York; Hamilton and Inches, Edinburgh; Theo Fennel, London; Royal College of Art.

The department benefits from visiting professional practitioners and lecturers. Students can participate in live projects and competitions, and have an enviable track record of success. Links have been forged with companies, galleries and individual makers in the UK and abroad. The programme is student-led and through tutorial guidance, you will develop a programme based on negotiated areas of practice and research.

With individual bench spaces, machine workshops and a drawing studio, the department provides the perfect environment to experiment and explore in pursuit of personal expression. Experimentation with non-traditional materials, such as rubber, perspex and paper, and with radical forms and altered scale, is encouraged. Previous Master's students have explored a diversity of approaches from the embedded object to the relationship between architecture and jewellery. The exhibitions resulting from such investigations have been innovative and dramatic.

We have an international body of postgraduate students coming from different cultural traditions to work in a broad range of silversmithing and jewellery design within an integrated framework.

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