Birmingham City School of Jewellery. MA Degree Show 2019

When the artists exhibiting here joined us at the School of Jewellery, their very first project involved them exploring the industrial heritage at the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. The first few weeks of the course saw them responding to the environment, talking to its people, working with found materials and exploring first-hand the cultural shifts that would resound throughout their first months away from home: they researched Birmingham’s canals, squares, graveyards and green spaces, and generated bold work that saw them engaging with people and place.