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For more than 700 years, the Goldsmiths' Company has actively promoted and supported the crafts of goldsmithing, silversmithing and jewellery. The tradition continues today with the Company's Promotion Department regularly arranging exhibitions, selling fairs and other events throughout the year to keep the work of the designer jeweller and silversmith at the forefront of the public arena.

Three key events in the Goldsmiths Company's promotional programme are the annual Spring and Summer Exhibitions and Goldsmiths' Fair.
The Hall can be hired for meetings, conferences, concerts, dinners and other functions. Further information can be found here

The Hall can be hired for meetings, conferences, concerts, dinners and other functions. Further information can be found here.

The Summer Exhibition

This year the summer exhibition CREATION II gives an insight into the mind of the modern designer-jeweller. Open at Goldsmiths’ Hall from Friday May 29 to Saturday July 11 it follows on from the exhibition CREATION held in 2004, which concentrated on silversmiths. Creation II in contrast explores and questions the concept of creativity by focusing on a group of leading contemporary designer-jewellers and their work. The jewellers featured in the exhibition represent an elite group of craftsmen active in the UK today, whose work is admired and collected both at home and abroad.
Admission is free.

1. Guggenheim Museum Brooch (Bilbao) by Vicki Ambery-Smith. 2. Diamond set rings by Malcolm Betts. 3. Brooch, Hooked series 2004, oxidised silver with 18 carat gold, by artist-jeweller Susan Cross.

1. 18 carat gold coiled wire pin 18 carat gold coiled earrings by Susan May. 2. Brooch by artist-jeweller Dorothy Hogg. 3. Kinetic globe ring in gold with diamonds, by Kamilla Ruberg.

The Spring Exhibition

Entitled Silver with a Pinch of Salt this fascinating exhibition looked at the role of silver and the silversmith in the context of the history of salt as a condiment and its place on the dining table. Important historical silver salts were displayed alongside a large selection of varied work by contemporary designers which vividly illustrated the different roles and guises silver salts have taken over the ages. The exhibition was supported by Maldon Salt and ran from March 30 to April 25, 2009.

Octagonal, silver and enamelled salt, 1910 Maker Alexander Fisher. Diameter 7.3cm
Eight translucent enamel plaques depict the Last Judgement and the Seven Virtues
Kindly loaned by the Salters’ Company. Photographer: Keith Davey

Oxen pepper cart by Carol Mather, silver and enamel, which follows in the tradition of Victorian novelty salts many of which incorporated animals.

Falcon Salt, Gilt table salt, 1871. Makers Hunt and Roskell. Height 15cms
One of a set of four magnificent gilt table salts modelled on a family crest of falcons standing upon buckles. Kindly loaned by the Salters’ Company
Photographer: Keith Davey

Silver with silver gilt salt with silver and wood ladle by Grant McCaig

Millennium Silver Salt by Rod Kelly for the Salters’ Company, 2000, with four silver pepper mills. The design for the Salt itself was loosely inspired by the Salters’ Renaissance Salt of 1589. Photo: The Goldsmiths’ Company

Exhibition poster

Bell salt, gilt, 1613. Maker DG, anchor in between. Height 29cms
Bell salts are peculiar to England deriving their name from their designs. Kindly loaned by the Salters’ Company. Photographer : Keith Davey

Goldsmiths' Fair

Irresistible jewellery and stunning silverware are the hallmark of the annual Goldsmiths' Fair, which since its inauguration in 1983 has achieved international acclaim as the leading selling exhibition of highly desirable contemporary jewellery and silverware. Traditionally launching the autumn season, the Fair provides the public with a unique opportunity of viewing and buying the very best of contemporary jewellery and silverware from Britain's leading designer jewellers and silversmiths. The Fair also offers the public an unrivalled opportunity not only to purchase exquisite jewels and silver items, many of which are not available through other usual retail outlets, but also to meet the designers face-to-face. Investing in a jewel or piece of silverware or embarking on a commission immediately takes on a more personal touch.

This year's Fair takes place with Week One opening on Monday September 28 to Sunday October 4 (closed Monday October 5) and Week Two from Tuesday October 6 to Sunday October 11. 160 leading and upcoming designer-makers from around the country present their latest collections in Goldsmiths’ Hall. Entrance is by catalogue (£7 for one week, £12 for two weeks) purchasable on the door.

Read the Press Releases http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/events/marketing.php

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