Tips and Tricks for Complex Fabrication with Vicki Ambrey-Smith
Tips and Tricks for Complex Fabrication with Vicki Ambrey-Smith
Instructor: Vicki Ambrey-Smith
October 3, Friday, 10:00 - 4:00
Class Fee: $225 | Basic materials included
Prerequisites: Intermediate to advanced level
Join visiting artist, Vicki Ambery-Smith as she talks us through her masterful approach to creating precisely constructed jewelry inspired by architecture.
Vicki will share some of her intricately made pieces for us to examine up close. She will discuss her design approach and describe the fabrication of these items while revealing many useful tips and tricks she has discovered during her 40 year career.
Students will have an opportunity to try scoring & folding metal sheet to construct a shape of your design such as a small square tower or hexagonal ring. Deceptively simple but requiring accuracy!
Materials INCLUDED:
- Brass sheet
- Specialized ruler
Students MAY bring:
- Dividers
- square
- scribe
Instructor Bio:
Vicki Ambery-Smith creates delicate and ornate small-scale jewelry and boxes inspired by real and imaginary buildings. Especially attracted to the structural clarity and minimal ornament of Romanesque and Renaissance architecture, she also uses forms reminiscent of the modernist structures of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
As all her jewelry is designed to be worn, and worn comfortably, the three-dimensional architectural structures on which she bases her work must be adapted rather than merely replicated in miniature, with the effect of distancing them further from their original referent. In this way, attention is drawn to the form of the pieces, and their intricate detail and definition. Far more than a representation of a building, each becomes an exquisite study of shape, surface, light and space as Vicki explores the language of architecture herself.
Her work can be seen in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Scottish Museum, East Midlands Arts, Houston University, Texas, and others.
Learn more about Vicki, HERE.
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