Jewelry Design courses

veryrandom

I was just wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction for a good quality jewelry design course in the Dublin area. Anyone have any recommendations? I would be a complete novice but i have a big interest in it.
Thanks!

achi

hi

I think it probably depends on what exactly you want to learn. there are some basic jewellery courses around. for example, Yellow Brick Road has a number of courses and is probably a good place to start from what i have heard, see here:
http://www.yellowbrickroad.ie/index.php/classes/

some CDVECs also do courses where you can make jewellery. for example, Ballsbridge CDVEC has a 'make your own handicrafts' course where you can do a bit of jewellery making: http://www.ballsbridgecollege.com/arts.html#han

the CEAD at the National College for Art and Design has a fantastic course. I completed it a while ago - was a week long. Loved it. I was showed how to cut, shape, polish sterling silver and other metals. they also teach you how to solder which was great. I came away with a number of pieces of jewellery that are just amazing and everyone admired! it is prob booked out this summer but there may be a chance to do something similar parttime in Sept. see pg 10: http://www.ncad.ie/faculties/education/docs/CEAD_Summer_2011.pdf

hope that helps a little bit

veryrandom

Hey, thanks so much thats really helpful! It would be more metals id be interested in working with (silver, gold etc) as opposed to beads or wire...
Ill have a gander the third link! Thanks!

miss87

hi

theres a jewellery shop in Bray called BDI jewellery they have a fabulous range of produts but they also classes bo harm lookign at there website or giving them a bell

veryrandom

Havnt been able to get through to the cead course or get a reply from them via email...
So am putting that on the back burner for now though it is still something i would love to do. For the moment does anyone know any courses that are similar to it? Ie. a good beginner general course but one that provides grounding in soldering, working with metals, piercing, stone setting and good design?

Any help much appriciated!

briscotti

NCAD offer a a jewelery (sp?) design course. It's a four year, the first year is core and then you can specialise after that, for 3 years. The graduate work this year was fabulous, in particular Muireann Walshe, and another girl's stuff who's name I can't remember.

Alternatively, they offer a range of evening / summer courses and i'm sure they have something to offer. As far as I remember they can be a bit pricey, but seem to be very good. www.ncad.ie for further information.


There is also a jewellery design course in Kilkenny that is funded by the CCOI or some similair body. Applications are finished now for this year, I think they ended in June and i'm raging I missed it! It only accepts new students every second year - it would definitely be worth looking into that, it has great results and the graduate work is just absolutely beautiful. There are good incentives with that one too in terms of receiving funding, as it is seen as retaining our heritage- as far as I know there are grants in place to make the course even better than it already seems to be.


Another option might be to check local community colleges for metalwork courses. I have seen jewelery design courses listed in the community college evening classes, but as far as I know these are just constructing pre purchased bits, such as clasps, beads etc -
IF you want to make them from scratch, through silversmithing, metalwork, glass lamp work or what have you i'd suggest you try NCAD or teh Kilkenny one.

Best of luck!!!

Sapsorrow

I know it's not the Dublin area but the Kilkenny course is arguably the best in the country for fine jewelry design. Unfortunately they only take twelve (AFAIK) new students every two years and this year is full already. A good friend of mine just got accepted after completing a two year FETAC course in jewelry design here in Cork. Something to keep in mind though.