The exhibition is curated by Dr Roberta Bernabei, a lecturer in 3D Design, Silversmithing and Jewellery, and Critical & Historical Studies at Loughborough University.
All are welcome to attend for free from 12-24 January, 12pm-2pm on weekdays.
This exhibition is about making as research or, more specifically, making jewellery to make sense of things. Making is a means of doing research, a method to investigate hypothesis. The exhibition presents a selection of pieces of jewellery and their research portfolios, where the protagonist is not the jewel but the research investigation through making the artefact. From a practice-based research perspective, the answers to these investigations take the shape of visual and physical artefacts.
The aim of the exhibition is to provide visitors with an opportunity to engage with various stories behind the ideation of critical forms of enquiries manifested in artefacts that can be worn on the body.
The selected research projects are by Jonathan Boyd, and Katharina Vones (Royal College of Art, Programme Applied Art, Jewellery & Metal, London), Zihan Zhou, Yajie Hu and Dr Roberta Bernabei (School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University).
Manifested in its various forms, these research projects provide a lens through which we can analyse the values, and aspirations of our society and reflect upon our views on them.
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