“Working with bronze offers a chance to engage with a time-honoured material that stretches across millennia, cultures and disciplines,” says architect-turn-jeweller Ifeanyi Oganwu. Sitting down with writer Mazzi Odu, Ifeanyi traces the foundations that lay beneath his work to reveal a design language informed by a deep respect for material history and urban environments.

“The industry used to be a very unwelcoming place, so if I can help young people, that’s what I’ll do.” - For Goldsmiths’ Stories, master silversmith, Rod Kelly talked to Curtis McGlinchey about sharing old skills using modern technology in a time of isolation.

“Artists, designers and makers are proving that weaving can be manoeuvred in near endless directions.” Says Victoria Woodcock as she explores the application of weaving techniques across disciplines, from loom to loupe.

Following on from her first book Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry, Melanie Grant examines the evolution of jewellery as art with a new five-part series created during lockdown with some of jewellery’s modern masters.

Jeweller Lin Cheung is shaking up tradition, and “…her subversive reinterpretation of familiar, hackneyed forms makes us smile and rethink our relationship to jewellery and its place in our lives…” says writer Rachel Church.

“Starting from the age of four or five I loved watching the community artisans and participating in their crafts of woven craft and basketry, I was encouraged to play with materials and enjoyed how these materials could be manipulated into an object.” - for Goldsmiths’ Stories, writer Mazzi Odu spoke with artist Jariet Oloyé about her unique approach to handmaking, and treating cultural inspiration as a living process.

Jonathan Foyle explores the rich and constantly evolving creativity of silversmith Manasi Depala and how cross-cultural influences leave indelible marks on her work.

“We have a rich and old history of jewellery in England that needs to evolve”. For his series on early career jewellers and silversmiths, writer Jonathan Foyle speaks with former Goldsmiths’ Company Apprentice and winner of the BBC’s ‘All that Glitters’ jewellery making competition in 2021 , Hugo Luis Johnson.

“Lichen is a metaphor for how we should be living with the earth.” Corinne Julius explores how silversmith Abigail Brown captures a deep and intimate connection with the natural world.

Although maths hadn’t been a favourite subject in school, jeweller Melanie Eddy’s post-graduate studies led her to research medieval architecture and art, and the maths which they were based upon. Curator and writer Rachel Church traces explores Melanie’s rediscovery of mathematics, it’s application in her jewellery, and the spirituality that underpins it.