GemSet Competition 2023

GemSet Competition 2023

Our Digital & Communications Officer, Eda Obermanns, recently spent the day with the team at The Scottish Gemmological Association on the judging panel for the annual GemSet Competition. It was a wonderful day, and inspiring and encouraging to see the incredible work submitted by students across Scotland.

The Scottish Gemmological Association works to promote and develop an interest in gemstones and gemmology education in Scotland. The Association offers an annual jewellery design competition specifically intended to encourage the use of gem materials in the work of students at all levels, full-time or part-time, in the jewellery and design departments of the Scottish Art Schools and Further Education Colleges.

The brief for the competition was to design and make an item of wearable gem-set jewellery which emphasises/shows the gemstones off to their best, and pieces were considered on the following criteria:

Emphasis of the attributes of the gemstone/s

  • Aesthetic design and creativity

  • Technical ability and quality of fabrication

  • Professional application of stone setting techniques

  • Wearability

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and highly commended submissions!

 
 

Primarily Handmade Category

 

Isabella Bedlington

Winner, Primarily Handmade
The Glasgow School of Art

 

David Ding

Highly Commended, Primarily Handmade
Edinburgh College of Art

 

Lynn Zhang

Highly Commended, Primarily Handmade
Edinburgh College of Art

 

First Year Student Category

 

Isabel Coles

Winner, First Year Student
Edinburgh College of Art

 

Eleanor Scott

Highly Commended, First Year Student
Edinburgh College of Art

 

Emily Parkin

Highly Commended, First Year Student
Fife College

 

Primarily Other Methods of Other Production Category

 

Claire Zimmerman

Winner, Primarily Other Methods of Production
City of Glasgow College

 

Barry Holleway

Highly Commended, Primarily Other
Methods of Production
Glasgow Kelvin College

 

Kerri-lee Murray

Highly Commended, Primarily Other
Methods of Production
Glasgow Kelvin College

 

Andrea McCarthy

Highly Commended, Primarily Other
Methods of Production
The Glasgow School of Art Continuing Education

Eda Obermanns