Visiting Artists

Beyond The Immediate - Design Workshop with Brenda Ridgewell

Beyond The Immediate – Design Workshop with Brenda Ridgewell

  Brenda Ridgewell is the former Director of Jewellery and 3 Design at Curtin University, Western Australia, and has been the recipient of many prestigious awards.  She has exhibited her work throughout Australia, as well as in the USA, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. She is leading a two-day […]

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Helen Aitken-Kuhnen to run 2 workshops in 2019

Helen Aitken-Kuhnen to run 2 workshops in 2019

We regularly invite acclaimed jewellers to visit our studio and provide specialised workshops in specific aspects of jewellery making. In September 2016, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen visited us and ran two three-day workshops in enamelling. Helen is an acclaimed Enameller and artist. With a career spanning 35 years, she is well known […]

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Comtemporay Metal opens new Studio 2017

Comtemporay Metal opens new Studio 2017

Thank you for your support in 2016. 2016 has been an eventful year for Contemporary Metal. Claire Townsend (co-founder of Contemporary Metal) and her family moved to the Gold Coast. Claire is truly missed at the studio. Philip Noakes was appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Goldsmiths (London) […]

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