Anglo Gold Auditions

Anglo Gold Auditions Competition

The designs to the making. The competition was based around a concept of urban tribes. I designed a jewellery piece for a character called the gold digger and an accessory for a character called the black gold prince.

These are the designs...

and this is the making, lecturers of mine did the manufacturing.

Finished

Finshed my jewellery design and manufacture course yesterday. The exhibit is on the 23rd of november here are some pics of my exhibit for the lecturers to mark.

some new jewellery

This work is going towards my end of year exhibit.

Thesis 2009

My thesis is available at: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bxyt4qTfAjfONDk3MzQzOWUtODkyMC00NjM0LTkxZTEtYmUyODcwNWI1M2Iw&hl=en

Platinum ring

I hope I learnt a little bit more about platinum because of the construction of the ring. Platinum does not conduct heat so when sweat soldering the third plate of the ring together I melted it. I should have used an easier solder. Eventually I soldered a pin/rivet to hold the plates together. This is a perfect example of how this metal behaves differently to metals like silver and gold.



It takes a long time to clean platinum but the results are worth it.

Anglo plat competition

This is still a work in progress... It will be a ring when I'm finished. I know it looks a bit strange but I still need to pierce out the shank.

The theme for the competition is quite broad. It is about African wedding ceremonies. My ring is inspired by the earrings given by the husband to his wife when he gets married and she is never seen without them once married. The Masai tribe from Kenya practice this marriage tradition.