Output details

Jewellery design and development: from concept to object

Context

This book investigates the creative design process as practiced by seventeen internationally acclaimed jewellery artists and was developed over the period 2009 – 2013. The artists were identified through Cherry’s international network of artists, designers and curators, and extensive library of resources. While each has an international reputation in their own right, the practitioners are identified as belonging to early, mid career, and long established categories.

Research resides within the process of identifying and interrogating the creative process and methodology employed by each practitioner. The author writes objectively on some of the theories related to creativity, especially materiality and the haptic process, and relates these to the work of the featured artists as described by each individual.

Insights

The author carried out a series of interviews, some in person, some via email and Skype, made studio, exhibition, conference and symposium visits in order to elicit the information required to inform this study. Each artist prepared a statement about his or her personal philosophies of creativity as applied to a specific project, illustrated in the book, and Cherry has written an analytical commentary on each of these.

The research is shared with the public through this publication which is also available as an e-book. International educators and practitioners are amongst the purchasers. One of the artists featured, an established jeweler of high international repute, who has been written about in many catalogues and publications over the past 40 years, has described this as “the best jewellery book ever”.