To tell the truth, my silversmithing skills are pretty scrappy. I am not a patient person and I kind of make it up as I go along. HANDSHAKE 6 is incredibly valuable opportunity for me because I don’t have a formal jewellery education. This programme situates me within a community of contemporary jewellers and allows me to develop my own jewellery practice in a focused way over two years. Being interested in the conventions and material hierarchies of jewellery, I am excited to be paired with Karl Fritsch as a mentor. I admire how his work playfully subverts traditional understandings of value.
Jack Hadley‘s posts:
My Glamorous Life / Studio Experiments
My jewellery practice has typically incorporated traditional jewellery materials: silver, gold and cheap gemstones. Recently, this has started to feel expensive and a bit limiting. I have started playing around with some new materials like aluminium, lead and rubber....
Makeshift Studio and Image Dump
During lockdown, I set up a a studio in the basement of my flat. It's messy and damp, but it has been a wonderful space to have. It is very makeshift. I use paint buckets as stools and often work on floor. There is a fire extinguisher prominently installed to ease my...
IMPOSTER
Turning up on the first day of JEWELcamp I felt like a total impostor. I’m not a ‘real jeweller’ but a gleeful hobbyist. I haven’t gone to jewellery school. I’m impatient and I don’t know how to do things properly. Instead I go to jewellery night classes and watch...
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