Craft Hub (External organisation)

Description

Craft Scotland / EU Material Hub Contributor

Craft Hub is a European project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme focused on Craft in the context of cultural heritage and its continuing relevance in contemporary practice.
The project activities involve investigating and documenting craft skills and processes; their differing application in creative practice across Europe; and questions of cultural specificity & individual motivations of practitioners. This will be addressed through a comprehensive and exciting program to allow the creation of new craft work/experimental investigations into process and material supported by 42 transnational maker residencies, 305 days of outreach work, 1 festival, 7 exhibitions and 2 conferences.


Artist Statement

Sandra is a silversmith and goldsmith working with precious metals recovered from electronic waste to create new jewellery. Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world and in Europe we are only recovering around 15% of the precious metals such as gold, silver and copper. The European Chemical Society have also highlighted that these precious metals are also endangered elements that we may run out of in less than 100 years. So working with metals recovered from electronic waste and finding frugal ways of working with these significant materials are vitally important. Through collaborating with chemists Sandra is able to work with e-waste metals in solution to create new patinated surface finishes and create thin metal foils for damascening – a unique frugal way of adding surface decoration. Sandra is an award winning designer and maker whose research is also funded by various UK research councils. She is also Professor of Ecological Metal Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design part of the University of Dundee, Scotland UK.

Period	2023 → …
Held at	Craft Hub, Belgium