I found out today that I’m one of five Dundee final year jewellery students to win a Goldsmiths Precious Metal Bursary award. I’m over the moon I’ve won one of these, the competition from Dundee is so strong, never mind the rest of the UK.
Anyway, here are my entry boards.
University is now, more or less, over for the year. Our final event, the xmas jewellery sale, finished yesterday and I think everyone sold some jewellery. I don’t know what the final total (in cash) will be but it was looking very healthy yesterday morning and sales were made right up until the close at 5pm yesterday. A big well done to all the jewellers for making a great success of it.
Over the xmas break I’m going to be putting together an application for the 2011/12 MDes program at Dundee and doing a personal statement in preparation for the visit of our exernal assessor which is at the end of January 2011. I also need to get started on work for assessments and the degree show.
In January I should find out if I’ve been lucky enough to get a Goldsmiths precious metal Bursary award or not, the brooch design I used in my competition entry will be cast in silver if I get a bursary, otherwise, it’ll be made in bronze. The image below shows an initial paper version of the brooch and a rapid prototype I had done, these images were part of the Goldsmiths competition entry.
Coming up in January we also have a peer assessment day which will be part of our mid-term review so it’ll be a fairly intense month and I think we’ll all have to hit the ground running after the break. We were also told last week that the 17th of May is results day, with assessments on the 9th and 10th, that’s not enough time surely?
I wish you all a great winter break, see you next year :-)
Entries to the competition were parcelled up to be sent away on Friday. The deadline for the competition is Tuesday 30th of November and judging takes place during December. Entrants get a letter some time in January giving either good or bad news. I hate waiting for things like this although the dissertation result is even worse, hand in is on December 9th and we don’t get told our result until May, I’ll be driven mad by that.
Anyway, good luck to all my jewellery group, I hope we raise the bar!