What’s on
History at the Hall: Alchemy, Assaying and Experimentation
On the evening of Monday 1 September 2025, join Professor Peter Oakley at Goldsmiths’ Hall for a session that explores the relationship between alchemy and assaying and what they reveal about science and magic in the time of the Tudors.
Watkins+Ramshaw – A New Vision
David Watkins and Wendy Ramshaw are internationally recognised for their pioneering body of work that has helped to shape and expand the perception of contemporary jewellery. During this year’s Goldsmiths’ Fair you will have the unique opportunity to explore a curated selection of their pieces in the first major displayed dedicated to Watkins+Ramshaw for more than 50 years.
Jewels for the Hall - An intervention by Ella Fearon-Low
Jewels for the Hall is a series of site-specific sculptural installations made for Goldsmiths’ Hall. Each work is unique and responds to particular spaces, ideas or materials within the building.
As an Artist Jeweller Ella Fearon-Low creates work, often brooches, that she considers to be like miniature sculptures. For Jewels for the Hall Ella has flipped that idea to make several sculptural installations that will act as ‘jewellery’ for the Hall during the two weeks of Goldsmiths’ Fair 2025, decorating and adorning this imposing building with visual artworks.
INTERWOVEN: Jewellery Meets Textiles
INTERWOVEN: Jewellery Meets Textiles is a Goldsmiths’ Centre exhibition for Goldsmiths’ Fair that explores the relationship between contemporary jewellery and textiles, through the work of over thirty jewellers, made in the last forty years.
The interconnection of jewellery and textiles has a long history. Both crafts have an intimate relationship to the body and personal expression. But what is the nature of the bond today? Looking from the perspective of the jeweller, the exhibition asks – how and why are makers looking to textiles as they design?
Goldsmiths' Fair 2025 - Week One
For more than 40 years, Goldsmiths’ Fair has provided private collectors, international museums and world renowned collections with the opportunity to see, try, and buy pieces from the most talented independent silversmiths and jewellers working in the UK today.
In 2025, the Fair will be welcoming 136 exhibitors, each with a unique approach to working with precious metals to Goldsmiths’ Hall, across the two weeks of the Fair. These include 5 first time exhibitors, and 10 early career makers, who are recipients of our Emerging Business Bursary scheme.
New Directions in Jewellery
Trend forecaster and jewellery expert Kathryn Bishop, and Bella Neyman, founder of NYC Jewelry Week (NYCJW), open this year’s Goldsmiths’ Fair with a conversation exploring new directions in jewellery through the lens of materials, culture, emerging technologies, and marketing. Their talk will examine the nuance between the UK and US jewellery markets, shifting channels of influence, and fresh opportunity spaces for jewellers and metalsmiths.
Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside: Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay
History author Victoria Shepherd shares a dazzling tale of awe, superstition, and lost treasures, following the journey of enigmatic antiquarian George Fabian Lawrence, known as ‘Stony Jack.’ Hear how, at the height of the British Empire, Stony Jack trafficked the treasures of the Cheapside Hoard, recently discovered by labourers in a cellar in the City of London, into high society.
Rachel Garrahan in conversation with Alice Cicolini
Join Rachel Garrahan, jewellery director of EE72, in conversation with British jeweller and Goldsmiths’ Fair exhibitor Alice Cicolini, exploring the diverse architectural inspirations, ancient techniques, skilled craftsmanship, and colourful evolution of Alice’s jewellery over the last two decades. Alice will share stories from her recent work, and what’s next on her journey as one of Britain’s most vibrant jewellers.
The Jewelry Book: 200 Years of Freedom in Design
Author and curator Melanie Grant introduces new title The Jewelry Book, charting 200 years of fine and high jewellery design through the lens of creative freedom. Published by Phaidon, the book spotlights more than 300 designers, creative houses, artists, collectors, and style icons from around the world. Melanie will be joined by three esteemed jewellery designers who will share what ‘freedom’ means to them, and how it shapes their own work and practice.
Goldsmiths' Fair 2025 - Week Two
For more than 40 years, Goldsmiths’ Fair has provided private collectors, international museums and world renowned collections with the opportunity to see, try, and buy pieces from the most talented independent silversmiths and jewellers working in the UK today.
In 2025, the Fair will be welcoming 136 exhibitors, each with a unique approach to working with precious metals to Goldsmiths’ Hall, across the two weeks of the Fair. These include 5 first time exhibitors, and 10 early career makers, who are recipients of our Emerging Business Bursary scheme.
Unpicking the Relationship Between Jewellery and Textiles
Charlotte Dew and Greg Parsons, curators of the recent Goldsmiths’ Centre exhibition Interwoven, are joined by Fair exhibitors Caitlin Murphy and Gilly Langton to explore the creative connections between contemporary jewellery and textiles. Discover how jewellers and metalworkers are unravelling inspiration from textiles, diving into new processes to manipulate metal and push their work in fresh directions. This talk complements an edited showcase of Interwoven on display at this year’s Goldsmiths’ Fair.
Annie Warburton in conversation with TF Chan
Annie Warburton, CEO and Clerk of The Goldsmiths’ Company, is joined by TF Chan, the recently appointed director of Collect Fair, for what will be a thought-provoking conversation centred on luxury, artistry, and craftmanship. Together, Annie and TF will discuss the challenges and opportunities for jewellers and artists with craft-based practices, and what can be learnt from the global luxury industry, burgeoning public interest in craft, and the evolution of international craft events and audiences.
Metals, Myths, and Meaning: From Ritual to Craft
Across time, space and culture, humans have invested gold and silver with meanings that far outweigh their physical properties. This lively conversation, chaired by writer and editor Debika Ray, explores how precious metals became symbols of power, purity and transformation, and the stories, rituals and histories that have imbued them with divine qualities. At a time of cultural homogenisation and mass production, this talk reflects on how these human qualities are manifested in the objects we hold so dear, and what they continue to mean for makers, collectors and society today.
The Three Queens: From Jewellery to Sculpture at Goldsmiths’ Hall
Hear a captivating talk on the collaborative making process between artist jeweller Ella Fearon-Low and wood-turning partnership Ash and Plumb, and the story behind The Three Queens. This new, sculptural work makes its debut at Jewels for The Hall, a site-specific installation at this year’s Goldsmiths’ Fair. From material sourcing, to finding creative synergies, and the iterative design process required to make this work at-scale, attending audiences can get a close-up view of this exciting, interdisciplinary intervention.
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 10:30, Monday 10 November 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 12:30, Monday 10 November 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 10:30, Monday 8 December 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 12:30, Monday 8 December 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Robert Welch – Crafting a Design Legacy
As part of the 2025 Broadway Arts Festival’s ‘Silver Day’, join archivist of Robert Welch Designs, Charlotte Booth for “Robert Welch - Crafting a Design Legacy”, a talk which will trace the evolution of design at Robert Welch and capture the essence of a legacy which continue to inspire in its 70th year!
The Goldsmiths’ Company is proud to support Silver Day at the 2025 Broadway Arts Festival.
A Sterling Renaissance – British silver design from the 1950’s to date
As part of the 2025 Broadway Arts Festival’s ‘Silver Day’, join Silver Historian John Andrew for “A Sterling Renaissance – British silver design from the 1950’s to date” a fascinating talk on contemporary silver design!
The story of the Renaissance is unbelievable – a grumpy king, the controller of London Transport, civil servants galore, the Royal Navy’s Camouflage Directorate, an unemployed old Etonian, an architect, a fine painter, an Earl’s daughter, an American socialite and of course silversmiths. If you like a good true story and beautiful handmade objects – this is definitely for you!
The Goldsmiths’ Company is proud to support Silver Day at the 2025 Broadway Arts Festival.
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 15:00, Monday 19 May 2025 (Groups Tour)
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 12:30, Monday 19 May 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 10:30, Monday 19 May 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
The Pearson Silver Collection at Court Barn Museum
As part of the 2025 Broadway Arts Festival a selection of some of the 900 pieces made by approximately 300 silversmiths that form The Pearson Collection - the largest privately owned collection dedicated to post-war and contemporary British silver design in the world - will be exhibited at The Court Barn Museum in Chipping Campden from 17 May to 14 June 2025.
The Goldsmiths’ Company is proud to support Silver Day at the 2025 Broadway Arts Festival.
The 2025 Goldsmiths’ Company Lecture: The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle - Living in history and the here and now
The Goldsmiths’ Company is honoured to welcome The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle KCVO MBE FSA, 39th Dean of Westminster, to deliver the 2025 Goldsmiths’ Company Lecture - Living in history and the here and now.
Archive Experience: The Trial of The Pyx - Session Two (2:30pm)
How much do you trust the coins in your pocket? In an age of digital finance coins are still reassuringly solid. This trust has been hard-won, thanks in no small part to the Trial of the Pyx – the annual test of the coins produced by the Royal Mint by the Goldsmiths’ Company and the London Assay Office.
Join the Goldsmiths’ Company’s Library and Archive team on Wednesday 7 May 2025, to learn about the ceremony and the science behind this ancient procedure through objects and documents in their collections, during this exclusive Archive Experience at Goldsmiths’ Hall, in the City of London.
Archive Experience: The Trial of The Pyx - Session One (11:30am)
How much do you trust the coins in your pocket? In an age of digital finance coins are still reassuringly solid. This trust has been hard-won, thanks in no small part to the Trial of the Pyx – the annual test of the coins produced by the Royal Mint by the Goldsmiths’ Company and the London Assay Office.
Join the Goldsmiths’ Company’s Library and Archive team on Wednesday 7 May 2025, to learn about the ceremony and the science behind this ancient procedure through objects and documents in their collections, during this exclusive Archive Experience at Goldsmiths’ Hall, in the City of London.
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 15:00, Monday 28 April 2025 (Groups Tour)
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 12:30, Monday 28 April 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 10:30, Monday 28 April 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Marks of deception: tackling fakes & forgeries in antique British silver
Hallmarking is one of the world's oldest forms of consumer protection – a guarantee to those buying and selling items made of precious metals that they have been expertly tested, and that the marks they bear truthfully reveal their composition – a proud responsibility of the Goldsmiths’ Company since 1327.
But where you have systems designed to protect buyers and sellers, you will also find those intent on acts of deception - cunning artificers, who create fakes and forgeries, not just of the objects, but of the hallmarks themselves.
Explore the world of fakes and forgeries in antique British Silver, and get hands-on experience with objects from the London Assay Office’s Fakes & Forgeries Collection under the expert guidance of GHAC members.
Fully Booked - Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 15:00, Monday 17 March 2025 (Groups Tour)
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 12:30, Monday 17 March 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Fully Booked - Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 10:30, Monday 17 March 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
The Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council Awards Exhibition 2025
Explore a curated selection of this year’s awe-inspiring, award-winning work from the Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards 2025.
This free-to-attend exhibition features work from a selection of emerging and established UK-based jewellers, silversmiths, and craftspeople. Visitors will discover handcrafted fine jewellery, contemporary silversmithing, and objet d’art, alongside detailed enamel work, creative lapidary, and avant-garde conceptual jeweller
Goldsmiths' Fair at Collect 2025
Goldsmiths’ Fair has been selected to show at Collect 2025 alongside artist-makers and galleries from around the world.
Presented by Crafts Council, Collect is the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design. In the impressive setting of Somerset House, London, galleries and makers from around the world come together to showcase the best craft being made today, spanning disciplines including ceramics, glass, lacquer, textiles, paper, jewellery and metalwork.
Injecting Hope: The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Injecting Hope is a new, free exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland that presents the science behind the COVID-19 vaccine.
This exhibition details the rapid research, development and delivery of the vaccine. Learn the science behind the creation of the vaccine, and understand the logistics behind its global roll-out.
The Goldsmiths’ Company is proud to support Injecting Hope through the loan of Junko Mori’s Hope in Balance.
Fully Booked: Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 14:30, Monday 13 January 2025 (Groups Tour)
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Fully Booked: Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 12:00, Monday 13 January 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Fully Booked: Goldsmiths' Hall Tour - 10:00, Monday 13 January 2025
Your chance to experience the palatial grandeur of our grade one listed building on a 60-minute guided tour of its principal rooms with our Librarians and Archivists, and to see some of the treasures from our collection under the guidance of our Curators.
A rare opportunity to step inside one of the City of London’s hidden treasures that is not regularly open to the public, on a site that has been home to the Goldsmiths’ Company for seven centuries!
Interwoven: Jewellery Meets Textiles
Interwoven: Jewellery Meets Textiles is a Goldsmiths’ Centre exhibition exploring the creative connections between contemporary jewellery and textiles. This free exhibition invites you to discover the innovative ways jewellers are engaging with textile techniques, materials, and aesthetics.
The 2024 Goldsmiths' Company Lecture: Dr Gus Casely-Hayford – Children of the Great Whale: The story of gold and goldsmithing in Ghana
The Goldsmiths’ Company is honoured to welcome curator and cultural historian, Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE, to deliver the 2024 Goldsmiths’ Company Lecture - Children of the Great Whale: The story of gold and goldsmithing in Ghana.