Research projects

Like a Rolling Stone

International jewellery makers responding to themes of relocation and identity around the North Berwick coast and the poetic lyrics of Bob Dylan's famous 'Like a Rolling Stone'.

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Bringing the Staffordshire Hoard to life

Alongside local partners and museum trusts, BCU researchers have analysed the remnants of the Staffordshire Hoard to as...

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The Adorned Afterlife Network

Bottomley brought together a network of international researchers from Design, Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology, His...

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FERROcity

FERROcity was co-curated by Bottomley and Turrell and exhibited the praxis of twenty-two contemporary jewellery artist...

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‘ Voyagers’ Alumni Exhibition 2020

An exhibition of ten alumni of the Birmingham School of Jewellery. Curated by Professor Stephen Bottomley and Visiting...

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Space/Craft

Stephen Bottomley's 2019 solo exhibition, Space/Craft was a reflective look at his work that captured material fragmen...

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Baskerville Punches

The Baskerville font was designed by John Baskerville an eighteenth-century Birmingham printer who considered all aspe...

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SBS Insurance Ltd

The School of Jewellery has conducted a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) with SBS Insurance to investigate whether...

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Small Performances: Investigating the typographic punches of Baskerville

'Small performances' is an interdisciplinary project that will make a substantial contribution to the history of print...

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