Lucy Sarneel: A ring is not just a thing

This course emphasises the specific role that jewellery plays in our mass-oriented, efficient, high-tech world, and the individual value it represents to us. Attention will be paid to each student’s personal perception of jewellery, but also to the diversity in the history and tradition of jewellery.
With personal guidance, students will develop “their own cosmos” through research, sketching and writing, in order to inspire and encourage their individual working process. The course is a playground for discovering new ways of applying techniques and material according to the student’s individual imagination, rather than a course about particular jewellery techniques.
A series of conceptual and practical exercises will lead the participants towards a personal working process. Making, reflecting and communicating are keywords in the working method. It encourages thinking in possibilities, rather than in solutions, resulting in a challenging and open approach to jewellery.
Jewellery-related discussions and guest lectures are initiated to increase students’ awareness of the meaning of jewellery. In the final week the participants are expected to present their work to the public in an inventive way which involves interaction with the city of Salzburg.
The course aims to reveal and encourage each student’s visual language, as well as their drive and expressiveness in the field of jewellery.

Co-teacher: Antje Godglueck


Media: jewellery-making techniques, experimental material research
Languages: English, Dutch, German
Maximum number of participants: 12
Requirements: Basic knowledge of jewellery-making techniques is not essential but advisable.

What to bring: Laptop, camera, footage from your own archives, basic tools, drawing materials. One small object that is dear to you, one small object that is broken and needs to be repaired.


Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
P.O.Box 18
5010 Salzburg, Austria
T +43 662 842113, F +43 662 849638
office@summeracademy.at
www.summeracademy.at

Dates and price

Dates: 11 – 30 August 2014
Price: Euro 920.- (reduced price for students Euro 680.-)

All applications received by 15 May 2014 will be treated equally. Later applications will be accepted and processed in the order of receipt, according to vacancies in the course.
Grant application deadline 1 April 2014.