Outstanding Student Award
The Outstanding Student Award gives students in Scotland the opportunity to experience working to commission, designing and making a goblet for the collection of The Incorporation of Goldsmiths. Each college is asked to submit a winning design for a silver goblet, and the winner is then paired with an established silversmith to create the goblet. This award is generously supported by The Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh. The aim of this award is to promote the continuing development of a rich and diverse silversmithing heritage in Scotland today, and to support emerging makers.
The selected student will also have the experience of working with one of Scotland’s prominent and highly regarded silversmiths in their workshop, providing them with technical assistance and guidance with the making of the goblet. This opportunity enables the student to develop their design and making skills, building their confidence in tackling high profile commissions.
Exhibiton of the Outstanding Student Award Goblets and Scottish Silver at Bute House, 2018
Past Winners
2022 Caius Bearder, The Glasgow School of Art, working with Dr Karen Westland
2019 Ruth Page, Edinburgh College of Art, working with Hamilton & Inches
2018 Annabel Hood, Edinburgh College of Art, working with Karen Westland
2017 Rowan Berry, The Glasgow School of Art, working with Michael Lloyd
2016 Beth Henderson, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, working with Marion Kane
2015 Naomi Scott, The Glasgow School of Art, working with Grant McCaig
2014 Karen Westland, The Glasgow School of Art, working with Kathryn Hinton
2013 Polly Collins, Edinburgh College of Art, working with Michael Lloyd
2012 Hamish Dobbie, The Glasgow School of Art, working with John Creed
2011 Hazel Thorn, Edinburgh College of Art, working with Marion Kane
2010 Jane McAlinden, Cardonald College, working with Roger Millar
2009 Emma McCallum, Edinburgh College of Art, working with Graham Stewart
Goblet by Ruth Page
Naomi Scott & Grant McCaig
Goblet by Caius Bearder
Karen Westland
Ruth Page
Goblet by Hamish Dobbie
Goblet by Naomi Scott
Rowan Berry
Goblet by Karen Westland
Ruth Page
Caius Bearder
“I believe this project is a very useful engagement with a professional craftsman in the latter years of a student’s full time study. This experience offered by the Incorporation is invaluable to a student’s early development specialising in silversmithing.”
John Creed, Master Goldsmith, mentored Hamish Dobbie in 2012 Outstanding Student Award
“I would like to thank you so much for having given me the opportunity to work on a commission such as this and to have the honour of being in the Incorporation’s collection now! The making of the piece has taught me so much and has really helped me with my final year’s study.”
Hamish Dobbie, Winner of 2012 Outstanding Student Award