Susan Cross has created a new body of work for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2022, entitled Shima, a series of brooches inspired by walled gardens and Elizabethan embroidery. Pearls and semi-precious stones are threaded and looped into intricately detailed silver forms.
Susan set up her first studio in London before relocating to Edinburgh in 1989 where she now lives and works. She has made a significant contribution to teaching in the UK and has worked in the Jewellery & Silversmithing department at Edinburgh College of Art since 1989. She won the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Jewellery in 2007. Public collections include the V&A, London, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh and Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London.
