Jewellery Quarter News

  Final year degree students at Birmingham's School of Jewellery are set to host a graduate show next month. The students' work will go on show in Birmingham for five days from June 10 to 15, with an industry evening on June 11 at the school's Vittoria Street campus. The work will include everything from catwalk pieces through to minutely detailed designs. There will also be twists on traditional techniques and objects made using unusual materials. The schools BA course director Zoe…

We are looking forward to the British Jewellers' Association Members Day and AGM at the Goldsmiths' Centre London on 20th May. The Members Day will give members and Industry individuals who work closely with the BJA the opportunity to briefly discuss topics covered by the Association during 2012/2013. In keeping with the Association’s push to embrace education and training opportunities, Peter Taylor Director of The Goldsmiths Centre will talk about developments at the National Sk…

Following these talks, Sue Thomas will discuss the making of the Jewellery Quarter as a dissenting community in the early 19th Century and Simon Buteux, Director of the Birmingham Conservation Trust, will talk about the importance of heritage in the Quarter, including an update on the Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works. Finally, John Berkeley OBE, former Chairman of Brandauer Holdings (a long-established precision engineering firm on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter), will discuss t…