Jewellery and Metalwork
Challenge and expand your creative thinking through making in the context of social and cultural concerns. Develop the skills to become a contemporary jeweller/metalwork creator.
Design (Interaction)
Tackle local, global, societal and environmental issues creatively and ethically – advancing your specialist design and research practice in a collaborative environment.
Rachael Colley
Rachael Colley is a senior lecturer in jewellery and metalwork, based at the Sheffield Institute of Arts. She is a member of the Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC), based within the College of Business, Technology and Engineering.
Helping Indonesian artisans think like designers
In Indonesia, craft has become an unsustainable industry. We’re helping build cooperation and fair trade into every design.
Jeff Durber
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Sheffield Institute of Arts where I teach on the BA (Hons) Jewellery and Metalwork course
Chris Knight
I joined the jewellery and metalwork team at Sheffield Hallam in 2003. Having graduated Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1987, I worked as a designer goldsmith in the USA for three years followed by a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art. Graduating in 1992, I established my first studio in London which I relocated to Sheffield in 1996. I have been teaching in higher education since 1993 and am currently a part–time Senior Lecturer at SHU, independent silversmith and Director of Si Applied Ltd.
“I want to set up my own design studio at home in India using both contemporary and traditional practices.”
International MA Design student Divya Potluri plans to set up for own design studio back home in India using both contemporary and traditional practices.
Danielle Muntyan
Lecturer on the BA(Hons) Fashion Management and Communication degree course at Sheffield Hallam University
Cóilín O'Dubhghaill
Cóilín Ó'Dubhghaill is a silversmith based in Sheffield, who trained at Grennan Mill craft school and Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 1996. He subsequently worked as a designer for industry in India, the Philippines, and the UK, and set up a workshop in Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1998, he moved to Tokyo, to study in the metalwork department at the National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), receiving a doctorate in 2005.