Form & Facets brings together six dynamic jewellers and silversmiths. Yusuke Yamamoto and Kathryn Hinton each explore faceted forms in silver with textured or hammered surfaces. Emmeline Hastings takes a sculptural approach to jewellery utilising hand carving techniques to create layered patterns in gold and silver, whilst Sarah Pulvertaft uses repeated and articulated elements to create gently undulating surfaces. Jo Hayes Ward and Yeena Yoon are both inspired by architecture and nature, creating beautifully constructed forms on a miniature scale.
Find out more about each artist in the films below.
Yusuke Yamamoto
Yusuke Yamamoto was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1979 and now lives and works in North Wales. He trained in silversmithing at the renowned Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Yusuke shapes metal by hammer raising and chasing techniques and draws inspiration from the natural world. With each stroke of the hammer, he tries to evoke an expression, atmosphere and emotion.
Kathryn Hinton
In 2003, Kathryn Hinton graduated from the Kent Institute of Art & Design in Goldsmithing. She now lives and works in Edinburgh.
Merging traditional ideas with digital technology, Kathryn Hinton’s faceted silverware and jewellery explore form and surface using computer aided design software. The ability to use technology as a tool to design and also as a method of manufacture has shaped the style of her work.
Emmeline Hastings
Emmeline Hastings takes a sculptural approach to jewellery, combining unexpected and contrasting materials in her Bristol studio. Utilising her individual and original techniques of hand carving acrylics, embedding them with metallic elements and resins she creates striking, beautiful and contemporary wearable sculpture.
Sarah Pulvertaft
Sarah Pulvertaft set up her workshop in London in 1995 where she worked for 10 years before moving to rural Oxfordshire. She uses traditional jewellery making techniques to create modern jewellery in silver and gold. Repeated and articulated/kinetic elements are recurrent themes in her work.
Fascinated by repetition in nature, and particularly by the meditative quality of the mass of elements in, for example, a field of crops, Sarah uses repeated and articulating elements to create gently undulating surfaces and unusual, sometimes unruly forms.
Jo Hayes Ward
London based designer Jo Hayes Ward launched her fine jewellery brand in 2006 on graduating from her Masters in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery at London’s prestigious Royal College of Art.
Constructing jewellery from small building block elements, Jo Hayes Ward creates elegant pieces with both an architectural and organic aesthetic. Distinctive characteristics of her award winning designs are pieces, which dramatically catch the light with movement and intricate structures that hint at geometric, mathematical and biological references.
Yeena Yoon
Discovering jewellery making, Yeena Yoon studied with award winning goldsmith Sonia Cheadle before winning a place on the highly respected Goldsmiths’ Centre Setting Out programme.
Inspired by her architectural background, Yeena’s approach to design is through innovative use of materials in search for a new spatial composition and its material expression. The jewellery often explores the concept of hidden treasure that can shape-shift according to its use. Her jewellery is conceived as a miniature art that can be taken apart and worn as individual pieces, or put back together, nesting seamlessly into each other to become a sculptural piece.
