Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery Shop Commission

The redevelopment of Shrewsbury’s Music Hall as a cutting edge venue for tourism, heritage and the arts is due to open in the spring 2014. This unique space will play host to one of the West Midlands foremost venues for contemporary art.

Shrewsbury museum has invited our 3D Contemporary Crafts and Products students at Bucks New University to develop ideas for a range of commercial artefacts to be sold through their museum shop.

The brief focused thematically upon Shrewsbury’s heritage and history and the interpretation of its museum collections.

That’s the spirit

Goldsmiths' award winners  left to right:
 Claire Hughes, Lucinda Newbound, Loucinda Nims

Our Second-year BA (Hons) 3D Contemporary Crafts & Products student Lucinda Newbound has won second prize in The Goldsmiths' Company Young Designer Silversmith Award working to a brief to design a drinking set for an alcoholic spirit.

Fellow second-year students Claire Hughes and Loucinda Nims received commendations.

Lucinda will be spending a day working with top silversmith Clive Burr at The Goldsmiths’ Centre.

Course leader Andreas Fabian said:

“This is an extremely prestigious competition so all three students have done fantastically well to be recognised and a day working with such a well-regarded figure as Clive Burr represents a great opportunity for Lucinda.”

Michael Jones Jewellers Competition

Loucinda Nims

Competition Entries Finalised...

The Michael Jones Jewellers competition consisted of a fabulous brief to design a pendant for sale in store. It gave students complete free reign for sources of inspiration and research. This has been an exciting and challenging project. 

The brief set allowed huge creative freedom while also invoking a strict budget with the requirement to include both gold and diamonds. The final designs were required to viably retail at £895 which meant a strict and limiting budget for materials and significant size and volume restrains.  The brief was made yet more challenging because designs had to be created using CAD software. The software used was Rhino and designs can be rapid prototyped using modern 3D print technology. 

Lucinda Newbound

Dovydas Pocius

The resulting work has been innovative, evocative and wonderfully unique. The CAD files will now be sent off to Michael Jones Jewellers for the initial judging stage. Finalist will be chosen on the basis of design boards and their work will be prototyped for final judgement. Good luck to Everyone! 

Rebecca Price

Claire Hughes