At Home with Silver: Day Programme & Speakers Announced
At Home with Silver: Day Programme & Speakers Announced
To celebrate the opening of the Marchmont Silversmithing Workshops, the Scottish Goldsmiths Trust has created a day programme for silversmiths, collectors, curators and industry VIPs to include the formal opening of the workshop, talks, panel discussion and silversmithing demonstrations. Speakers will include Hugo Burge, Director of Marchmont Ventures and Lisa Koenigsberg, President of Initiatives in Art and Culture – New York. The day will offer a rich day of discussion and ample time to enjoy meeting and talking with fellow attendees.
AT HOME WITH SILVER
DAY PROGRAMME Saturday 25 March 2023
MORNING
09:30 Refreshments on Arrival
10:25 Welcome
Ebba Goring, Chief Executive of The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust
10:30 Marchmont: A new home to makers and creators
Hugo Burge, Director of Marchmont Ventures
10:45 The Power of Craft in a Transformational Age
How previous movements inform the future of culture
Lisa Koenigsberg, President & Founder of Initiatives in Art and Culture
NYC
11:15 Refreshments
11:30 The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop: A New Home for
Silversmiths
Ebba Goring, Chief Executive of The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust
11:45 The Fifth Bench: International Residency at the Marchmont
Silversmithing Workshop: Creativity, Collaboration
and Community
Professor Sandra Wilson, University of Dundee; Andean silversmithing,
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme of the British Museum.
Dr Emilia Ferraro, Lecturer in Sustainable Design, University of Dundee
We welcome Gabriela Andrade and Fernando Buitron from Ecuador - the
first residencies at Marchmont, with residency supported by the
Marchmont Makers Foundation and travel to Scotland made possible by
The Silver Society and University of Dundee.
11:55 Silver in Contemporary Life
Panel Discussion moderated by Corinne Julius, Critic & Applied Arts
Journalist
Bryony Knox, Silversmith & Trustee of The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust
Sheng Zhang, Silversmith
Colin Fraser, Consultant Silver Specialist, Lyon & Turnbull
Anna Gordon, Head of Department, Silversmithing and Jewellery Design
at The Glasgow School of Art
12:45 Buffet Lunch and sign-up for afternoon activities
AFTERNOON
14:00 The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop Formal Opening Ceremony
Hugo Burge will cut the ribbon and formally open the workshop.
14:15 Afternoon Activities
An informal afternoon of fun activities for silversmiths and visitors. Visitors
will be divided into small groups and invited to take part in activities.
Silversmithing Workshop Tour: Meet the Marchmont Makers
Guided tour of the workshop, meet the silversmiths and watch
demonstrations.
Raising of a Silver Community Bowl: Marchmont Silversmithing
Workshop
All visitors are invited to take part in raising from a flat sheet of recycled
silver, a ‘Community Bowl’.
Refreshments will be available in the Common Room
Group Discussion: Sustainability and ethical working practices for
silversmiths
An opportunity to take part in a practical discussion about steps you can
take as a silversmith to make your business more sustainable and what it
means for your business with Dr Karen Westland.
16:30 Refreshments
17:00 Day end and transport to Berwick-upon-Tweed Station
Ryan McClean by James Robertson
EVENT SPEAKERS
Ebba Goring
Ebba Goring is the Chief Executive of The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust (SGT). The SGT is the national charity for Scotland’s Jewellery and Silversmithing Sector. By working in partnership and collaboration with makers, educators, businesses and other organisations, the SGT encourages investment and innovation in the sector, nurturing new talent and career development through awards, mentorship, workshops and commissions. She is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organisation, funding and managing programmes and activity to ensure we meet our charity aims and objectives. Previously, she was an independent fine jeweller and trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.
Hugo Burge
Hugo Burge is a recovering digital entrepreneur and house restorer, now focussed on building sustainable creativity in the arts, crafts and purpose driven businesses. As a Director of Marchmont Ventures, Hugo’s focus includes bringing Marchmont House - and Estate in Berwickshire - to life as a home for makers and creators, supporting creativity across the arts, crafts, purpose driven business and social enterprise.
Hugo continues to invest in early-stage digital businesses, through Marchmont Ventures and is Chairman of Motorway.co.uk, the UK’s fastest growing car selling marketplace. He is the Ex-CEO of Momondo Group – a leading European travel search business, a 2018 inductee to the British Travel & Hospitality Hall of Fame and co-founder of HOWZAT partners, which has invested in over 70 early-stage digital businesses including Trivago, academia.edu and Impala.
Hugo is a graduate in Geography from Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and has a slightly geeky passion for the arts and crafts movement – creating balance in an increasingly tech driven world. He is a Trustee of wasps_ studios, a QEST ambassador, Trustee of Lady Waterford Hall and a Patron of the Borders Art Fair.
Marchmont is a venue for nurturing creativity - offering events, experiences and a retreat for inspiration. The out buildings on the Estate house 15 permanent artists, including Rush Seat Chairmaking in the lineage of Ernest Gimson & Lawrence Neal, stone carvers, silversmiths, sculptors, painters and potters. Marchmont includes 3 artist residency spaces, for visiting artists, with 20 visiting in the first year of launch, 2021. Hugo has Founded the Marchmont Makers Foundation to support artistic creativity at Marchmont and the Scottish Borders in ways that would otherwise not be commercially viable.
Lisa Koenigsberg MA, MA, MPhil, PhD
Lisa Koenigsberg is an internationally recognised thought leader in the realm of visual culture with particular emphasis on artisanry, sustainability and world heritage. Founder and President of Initiatives in Art and Culture, Koenigsberg has developed a global community that engages in interdisciplinary exploration and champions collaborative and pioneering approaches to the intersection of object, fabrication and the culture it reflects and shapes. For over two decades, Koenigsberg has been committed to excellence and to ensuring discourse among authoritative voices, representing diverse points of view and straddling multiple divides in the realm of visual culture. This work is characterised by commitment to authenticity, artisanry, materials, sustainability, and responsible practice.
Previously Koenigsberg held leadership positions at NYU where she also served on the faculty, at several major museums, and at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Her writings have appeared in books, journals, and magazines. A frequent speaker, she has also organised symposia and special sessions at universities, museums, and professional organisations throughout the US and abroad.
Professor Sandra Wilson
Sandra Wilson is an award-winning silversmith/jeweller and Professor of Ecological Metal Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Her current research into working with precious metals recovered from e-waste is funded by EPSRC, The British Museum and The Daiwa Foundation.
Corinne Julius
Corinne Julius is a freelance journalist, critic, broadcaster and curator, with a special interest in contemporary craft and design. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2008 for services to design and craft.
Corinne has been a judge for many applied arts and design awards, including the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Metalwork. She is Chair of the Wood Awards Furniture and Product Panel, is a member of the Goldsmiths' Company Contemporary Collection Committee and was on the Glenmorangie Collection Committee. She is a selector for this year's Elements and Craft Scotland's Collect collection and is a guest lecturer at a number of arts universities
Corinne curated Silver Speaks: Idea to Object a show of Contemporary British Silver at the V&A; Bloomin’ Jewels, a contemporary jewellery show at CAA and is the founder-curator of one of the country’s major contemporary craft shows, Future Heritage now in its 9th year.
Sheng Zhang
Sheng Zhang is a UK based contemporary jewellery and silversmithing designer maker. He graduated from an MFA Jewellery course at the Edinburgh College of Art, having previously studied at the School of Jewellery Birmingham City University and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
Sheng has won multiple prestigious awards for his work, including Young Professional Award given by Netherlands Silver Museum, Silver Award from The Goldsmiths' Crafts and Design Council and New Designers Silversmithing Award from The Goldsmiths’ Company. His work is exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of Victoria and Albert Museum and The Goldsmiths’ Company. Sheng has worked on commissions for both individual clients and establishments including Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance.
Bryony Knox
Bryony specialises in the silversmithing technique of repoussé and chasing. Using pine pitch and a myriad of steel punches, she fashions functional silver sculptures the past twenty years she has been selling and exhibiting in galleries throughout the UK and abroad, whilst also undertaking larger and more intricate private and public commissions, including objects for JK Rowling, Winchester Cathedral, the Museum of Edinburgh and HRH Princess Anne.
Anna Gordon
Anna Gordon graduated in 1994 from Edinburgh College of Art in Jewellery and Silversmithing under Professor Dorothy Hogg MBE. She has her own contemporary jewellery practice as well working in design education, currently the head of programme in Silversmithing and Jewellery at the Glasgow School of Art.
Her work is in national collections including the National Museums of Scotland, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, and the V&A. She is also a trustee of the Scottish Goldsmiths Trust and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of gold and Silver Wyre Drawers.
Gordon uses traditional metalworking techniques in her practice exploring structural design and geometric form and composition. Kinetic elements create movement on the body and disrupt geometric forms creating order and disorder. This movement creates subtle surface changes that reflect light and emulate qualities of the drawn line. Drawing is a key part of the design process and the finished work retain the quality of these drawings, keeping an element of imperfections in a structured controlled form.
Karin Paynter MA RCA
Karin Paynter is a freelance design and communications specialist providing bespoke services for individual craftspeople, curators, charities and world-leading arts organisations spanning contemporary craft, jewellery design and manufacturing, the visual arts and the entertainment industry with a specialism in the jewellery, silversmithing and allied trades. With a background as a vocationally trained silversmith and award-winning designer, Karin has a long-term interest in preserving and passing on high-level skills and taking silver into real life contemporary spaces. Benchmark campaigns have included Silver Speaks at the V&A and exhibitions at Bonhams and Christies.
She is a member of the Livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, an Honorary member of Contemporary British Silversmiths and a Trustee of the Bishopsland Educational Trust. She is also a director of ERA5050, a campaign for equality on British stage and screen, supported by Equity UK, BFI and the Geena Davis Institute which won a What’s On Stage Award in 2019 which has been widely credited with helping positively change the visibility of women on British screens.
Dr Karen Westland
Karen Westland is programme manager for Ethical Making at The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust. Karen is responsible for all aspects of the Ethical Making Programme, including the Ethical Making Resource, annual symposium and Ethical Making Pledge with institutions across the UK.
Karen is a silversmith making luxury silver items with a strong interest in developing a responsible craft practice: she is a Fairmined licensee and a member of the Fair Luxury team. Graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2015, Karen is a Bishopsland fellow and completed their interdisciplinary doctoral research in physics and craft at the University of Dundee in 2022. Karen tutors at universities across Scotland and her work can be found in private and public collections including a recent commission for Reading Museum.