Art Jewellery Workshop with Jaki Coffey

Workshop Description:

Join Jaki Coffey for an enjoyable workshop in creating your own studio jewellery.

Engage in a playful way of making by using texture, scale, collage, cold connections, colour and found objects. Using your existing broken or old jewellery, Coffey will guide you in creating a new mixed media work. The workshop will demonstrate how to incorporate found objects with your existing pieces to create new wearable objects. You will walk away with a piece of small artwork that you can be proud to display on your person.

About Jaki:

Jaki Coffey is an award winning Irish designer / maker / artist.She holds an MFA in Design, and a first class honours from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in the Bachelor of Design in Craft Design (Metal and Jewellery).

She works in a variety of mediums including drawing, metalwork, and installations. Her work comprises of personal narratives translated into colourful, playful, interactive pieces. She achieves her intentions with attentive design, humour and careful consideration of colour and materials - which range from precious metals to found objects. The outcome is joyous and cheerful.

Her work has been shown around Europe including Ireland’s National Craft Gallery and Schmuck in Munich.

Event details:

Ages 16+

Materials and refreshments will be provided.

If you can no longer attend the event please email create@greywoodarts.org. Refunds will be determined on a case-by-case basis.