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Professor Sandra Wilson has a personal chair in Ecological Metal Design. She is a contemporary jeweller, silversmith, researcher and educator and is passionate about the transformative power of making things. Her highly interdisciplinary work has won awards from the Scottish Arts Council, the Audi Foundation for Innovation, and the British European Designers Group. Her work is also in the collection of HRH Princess Anne.
Her research investigates recovering precious metals such as gold and copper from electronic waste and is working with the Love Chemistry Group at Edinburgh University who have developed a new ligand that specifically targets gold. She has also researched the lesser known silversmithing technique ‘Dutch raising’ and is currently exploring how there may be parallels with this and Japanese raising methods. She is responsible for bringing the European Silversmiths Forum (Hammerclub) to Dundee in May 2019.
She advocates for making practice as research and projects have included Pulse: The Stuff of Life exploring the beauty of 3D protein architecture and thoughtfully integrating traditional hand fabrication and new technologies such as 3D printing. From Pulse, work was included in three exhibitions, namely; Origin: Ur Sprung Schmuck – an international touring exhibition including Inhorgenta the worlds' largest jewellery fair in Munich; Nature Inspired Design – an AHRC/EPSRC national initiative -Design for the 21stCentury; and Design4science an international touring exhibition and symposium highlighting cutting edge design and science. Co-investigator on Imprints: Public Responses to Identity Management technologies and practices a major £1.9m EPSRC research project. This research was concerned with the way that new wearable technologies could empower the user to express their fluid identities rather than be used for surveillance.
Keywords
- NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament
- Jewellery
- Metal
- Contemporary
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Open Design of Trusted Things (OpenDoTT) (Joint with MZ Denmark APS [Beneficiary] and the following Partner Organisations]; Officine Innesto SRL, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wevolver Ltd, ThinsCon e.V., Alexander von Humboldt Institut fur Internet und Gesellschaft gGm, Simply Secure, Quicksand Design Studio Pvt Ltd, STBY bv)
Rogers, J., Taylor, N., Thomas, P., Wilson, S. & Woods, M.
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Research Output
Recycling of Electronic Waste for Jewellery
Wilson, S., 10 Feb 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Beach Marks 2019, Britannia Silver and acrylic base: Exhibited at Renewal. European Silversmith Forum (HammerClub) Dundee
Wilson, S., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Confluence: Tradition in Contemporary Art
Modeen, M. (ed.), Spence, P., Irvine, Z., Rowland, C., Dalziel, M., Scullion, L., Milligan, A., Watson, A., Colvin, C., Faithfull, D., Summerton, E., Wilson, S., Elston, G., Fagen, G., Braham, P., Dunlop, G., Harrison, P., Maclennan, A. & Sheng, X., 1 Oct 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition catalogue
Renewal. European Silversmith Forum (HammerClub) Dundee
Wilson, S., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Renewal. European Silversmith Forum (HammerClub) Edinburgh
Wilson, S., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Activities
Art/Science Residency at Foundation OBRAS
Karen Westland (Visitor), Keith Wilcox (Supervisor), Sandra Wilson (Supervisor)18 Apr 2020 → 22 May 2020
Activity: Other activity types › Other
European Silversmiths Forum (Hammerclub) - Forging of the Common Bowl
Sandra Wilson (Member)31 May 2019 → 3 Jun 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - festival/exhibition
EPSRC Innovation Placement: Durham Precision Optics
Karen Westland (Visitor), Keith Wilcox (Supervisor), Sandra Wilson (Supervisor)4 Mar 2019 → 5 Mar 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Other
EPSRC Innovation Placement: Lampworker Helen Chalmers
Karen Westland (Member), Keith Wilcox (Supervisor), Sandra Wilson (Supervisor)19 Aug 2019 → 18 Feb 2020
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Journal of Jewellery Research (Journal)
Sandra Wilson (Editorial board member), Jayne Wallace (Editorial board member), Bernabei Roberta (Editorial board member)Mar 2018 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Press / Media
First UK visit for Hammerclub will reconnect Dundee with silver heritage
28/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Thesis
Disruptive Futuring: A new design approach to addressing climate change
Author: O'Donnell Hoare, N., 2018Supervisor: Wilson, S. (Supervisor) & Rogers, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Forensic Jewellery: A Design-Led Approach to Exploring Jewellery in Forensic Human Identification
Author: Maclennan, M., 2018Supervisor: Wilson, S. (Supervisor), Press, M. (Supervisor) & O'Neill, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Prototyping the Exhibition: a practice-led investigation into the framing and communication of design as a process of innovation
Author: Bletcher, J., 2016Supervisor: Valentine, L. (Supervisor) & Wilson, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Towards the Uncanny Object: Creating Interactive Craft with Smart Materials
Author: Vones, K. B., 2017Supervisor: Wilson, S. (Supervisor), Lim, S. C. (Supervisor) & Duplock, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy