Islay Spalding

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Islay Spalding

Dundee

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About this designer / maker

Biography

Islay Spalding's aim in jewellery design and making is to create unique pieces that are unusual and distinctive yet practical and pleasing to wear. She believes in quality craftsmanship and meaningful design and specialises in bespoke commissions for kilt pins and contemporary jewellery.

Islay's kilt pins are an abstract take on the traditional style and fabricated in silver using a variety of techniques. She uses elements such as grooves and notches to signify dates, hillscapes, landscapes and coastal outlines and pieces of music or lyrics or reworkings of clan crests to bring that personal meaning to the design and make it completely unique to the wearer.

Inspired by surrealist art, especially the work of Desmond Morris, Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy, Islay combines silver with hand-dyed resins to form colourful and chunky sculptural shapes that are then translated into rings, pendants and brooches for the Biomorph, Biocube and Small World Collections.

Islay also works with silver, 18ct gold and precious and semi-precious stones to create her narrative Jabberwocky Collection and rough and sparkly Treasure Ring Collection inspired by nonsense stories and make-believe.

Price Guide

Jewellery commissions from £140 to £2000

Jewellery stock items from £70 to £500

Current Exhibition

Open Eye Gallery
34 Abercromby Place
Edinburgh
EH3 6QE
www.openeyegallery.com

Concrete Wardrobe
50a Broughton Street
EH1 3SA
Edinburgh
0131 558 7130
www.concretewardrobe.co.uk

DCA
152 Nethergate
DD1 4DY
Dundee
01382 909 900
http://www.dca.org.uk/

Exhibitions

2009
- Christmas Exhibition, MIMA, Middlesborough

2008
- Genesis 08, SDC Gallery, London
- Reveal, Edinburgh College of Art

2007
- Winter Warmth

2006
- Colour Verve, The Gallery, West Kilbride

2005
- Braveart, The Atlantis Gallery, London
- The Pick of the Crop, Turning Heads Gallery, Brighton

Awards

2007
Prince's Trust Business Start Up Grant

2005
Goldsmiths' Company Precious Metals Bursary Award