Course Description

Jewellery is run as a hands-on elective that will give students an opportunity to design and build some projects made predominately from metals and glass. Other materials may be incorporated such as timber, plastics and resins. Students will learn some vital skills needed to operate machines to build their projects and learn how to select appropriate materials based on the task they wish to accomplish. Students will get to work with a variety of different metals and glasses to create their projects such as brass, copper, nickel, silver, fusible glass, float glass and coloured frit. There is plenty of scope for individualising projects in this elective.
This Jewellery Course provides students with experience in the practice and knowledge of jewellery equipment, practices and materials as a basis for applying design elements to products. Students will learn essential skills for producing jewellery and glasswork. This will include joining, finishing and planishing techniques; stone setting; casting; fusing and slumping glass. Students may work with a range of materials, silver, brass, copper, nickel silver, pewter and glass products.