Jewellery designer in residence competition

09/05/12

The British Library and Artquest have just announced a new research residency for a mid-career London-based jeweller with at least five years’ practice as a jeweller (this can include study time, although the applicants can not currently be in full-time education).

This is an opportunity for an innovative and talented practitioner to take their work in a new direction by gaining behind-the-scenes access to the unique collections and curators at the British Library and support in commercialising their work.

The Library’s collections are very varied and include:

Artists’ books
Botanical drawings
Chinese woodblocks and calligraphy
Digital and historical maps
Every magazine published in the UK
Illuminated manuscripts
Japanese woodcut prints
Market research e.g. consumer data, trends, etc.
National and local newspapers
Olga Hirsch decorated papers
Patents, trade marks, copyright and designs
Photographs
Russian Avant-Garde books and posters
Sheet music and music recordings
Social sciences information e.g. on the environment, society, etc.
Sound recordings e.g. oral history, sound recordings, etc.
Stamps
Zines, graphic novels and comics

The successful applicant will receive:

A bursary of £3,000 to develop (and potentially commercialise) a new body of work using material from the British Library collections.
Access to British Library collections and curators.
Access to business and intellectual property advice in the Library’s Business & IP Centre, which helps people to set up, run and grow their own business.
Marketing support to help raise the profile of their work and the residency.

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