DRAWING THREADS
Our group aims to provide an open critical space to interrogate practice-based and led approaches to making and material innovation.
We meet to discuss our methodological approaches to studio and technical enquiry, be they through drawing, making and reflection.
Our group explores the boundaries of existing studio-based practices and asks how overlapping, yet distinct, disciplines can bring new understanding of a subject’s shared material craft heritage.
Leigh Bagley, Textiles Lecturer
Stephen Bottomley, Professor of Jewellery Cultures and Innovation
Elaine Bremner, Textiles Lecturer
Anna Gordon, Head of Silversmithing and Jewellery
Andrew Lamb, Reader in Jewellery
Kim McNeil, Technical Manager (Design)
Michael Pell, Silversmithing & Jewellery Lecturer
Anita Sarkezi, Textile Designer and GSA Alumni
Alan Shaw, Centre for Advanced Textiles Manager
Susan Telford, Textiles Lecturer
Jane Milosch, Glasgow Uni. Visiting Fellow in Provenance and Curatorial Studies
Yitong Zhang, PhD student
Sheng Zhang, PhD student
Upcoming Exhibitions
Munich International Jewellery week 13-16th March
Special Viewing Friday 14th March 5.30-7pm
Museum Mineralogia München
St Michael’s Parish Church, Linlithgow
Private View Friday 28th March 7-9pm
Exhibition Saturday 29th March – Sunday 13th April
10.30am-4pm weekdays, Sunday 12-4pm
New Cluster Members
Two PhD students have joined the DT cluster, Yitong Zhang and Sheng Zhang.
Yitong Zhang has been selected to speak at an international PhD symposium day at the Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern during International Jewellery Week 2025 in March. C.15 PGR students have been invited to present their research over a full day to an invited academic and public audience.
Yitong and Sheng both successfully presented at the end of year 1 GSA doctoral college students’ presentations in December at Blythswood House.
Neo-gemstones® Lecture
Join our Drawing Threads Research cluster for a lecture 05.02.25 in the Reid Auditorium by Sophie Boon on her recent Doctoral research project at the University of the West of England.
Re-inSpired
Our current 2024/25 project involves working with the donated previous sheet metal cladding from the Crown of Thorns sculpture (1964, Clarke) that was previously situated on the spire of St Michael’s Parish Church at Linlithgow Palace.
These original gold-coloured anodised aluminium panels were removed and replaced with a new alloy as part of the £400K restoration project of the Crowns woodwork.
Cluster members have been afforded the opportunity to work with the original metal that spent 60 years above the church and interrogate their practice-based and led approaches to making and material innovation though personal or collaborative work.
Work is planned to be exhibited at:
Munich International Jewellery Week, 12-16th March 2025
Mineralogischen Staatssammlung München
St Michael’s, Linlithgow, April/May 2025
Coinciding with Earth Month 2025 and a proposed Glasgow/Edinburgh Sustainable Cities Public Programme of cultural events and project co-operation with Goethe-Institute, Institute Français d’Écosse, Climate Culture, and the Alliance Française Glasgow
Kunning Ding - From Trash to Treasure
Recent DJCAD Doctoral Student Kunning Ding will give a talk about their research “From E-Waste to Jewellery: practice-based research on exploring emotionally durable jewellery with the metal recovered from electronic waste”
European Academy of Design
15th International Conference
The European Academy of Design’s International Conference, Day 5 jointly run by Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow School of Design and Edinburgh College of Art's School of Design.
Clusters exhibition the Reid Corridor Gallery.
Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire
Worshipful Company of Wyre Drawers 400th anniversary exhibition at the Guildhall, London, tutors Anna Gordon and Andrew Lamb with GSA students Quinn Erickson, Alejandro Ruiz, Olivia Forrest, Militsa Milenkova, Imogen Hales, Torquil Gordon, Lindsay Mahood.
Presentation by Dr Jayne Wallace
Dr Jayne Wallace, Professor of Craft, Digital Creativity and Wellbeing in the School of Design Northumbria University gave a fascinating talk about her research and practice.
The presentation was followed by a group handling session and discussion of examples of current cluster members work.
image: Graham Clark
THE IRN BRUooch
The IRN BRUooch is made using a repurposed can of IRN-BRU together with platinum.
Enamel Art and Industry Symposium
Organised by Stephen Bottomley, Head of Design School GSA, the symposium was held at The Glasgow School of Art, Bourdon Theatre.
Speakers:
Elizabeth Turrell, Enamel artist and curator
David Gatrell, Senior Commercial Manager, A J Wells & Sons
Yinglong Li, Doctoral Researcher, Birmingham City University, School of Jewellery (SoJ)
Catia Wesolowska, PhD researcher BCU SoJ, Head of Conservation National Museum of Gdansk, Poland
Nicholas Oddy , Head of Design History and Theory, The Glasgow School of Art
Drawn And Formed
Worshipful Company of Wyre Drawers events featuring the work of Anna Gordon and Andrew Lamb at the Goldsmith’s Centre London.