In-conversation with Vicki Ambery-Smith and Corinne Julius

In-conversation with Vicki Ambery-Smith and Corinne Julius

Date: Wednesday 24 May, 2023

Start Time: 6.00 PM

End Time: 8.00 PM

Venue: FORGE

Please join us for a wonderful and very special In-Conversation with Vicky Ambery-Smith and Corinne Julius.  Hear Vicki's incredible journey as designer, her inspirations her processes, her impressive commission undertaken and how its all culminated into her new book - Jewellery & Silverware, Inspired by Architecture

This special evening is sponsored by Champage Gosset. 

Vicki Ambery-Smith’s distinctive style of silversmithing reflects her great interest in architecture. Using techniques of manipulation and trompe d’oel to get her desired effect to play with the power of architecture, inspire fantasy or trigger a memory. Each piece is an interpretation of a particular building.   She specialises in celebratory and commemorative pieces which capture the client’s love and affection for a building of special significance. Growing up in Oxford initially inspired her and she studied jewellery design at the famous Hornsey College of Art before being awarded a Crafts Council grant to establish her own workshop in 1977.

She has exhibited widely ever since and her work has been selected for many public and private collections around the world, including the Royal Scottish Museum, Norwich Castle Museum, Los Angeles Museum for Contemporary Art and Houston University, Texas. The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, acquired a selection of her design drawings as well as pieces for their jewellery and silver departments. 

Corinne Julius is a renowned journalist and curator who has contributed widely to contemporary craft over the years, featuring on Woman’s Hour, Front Row, the Evening Standard’s Homes & Property, Crafts, and Country Life. Corinne trained at the Royal College of Art and Sheffield University and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2008 for services to design and craft.    

She is a guest lecturer at a number of arts universities including the Royal College of Art, Central St Martin’s and the Sotheby’s MA in Decorative Arts. She works closely with makers and designers, has judged for many craft and design awards and curated exhibitions such as  Silver Speaks: Idea to Object a show of Contemporary British Silver at the V&A; Bloomin’ Jewels, a contemporary jewellery show at CAA and is the founder-curator of one of the country’s major contemporary craft shows, Future Heritage at Decorex.

£10. Includes glass of Champagne.  

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