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Stephen E Bottomley

Résumé

 

Email

stephenbottomley@hotmail.com

Website

www.stephenbottomley.com

Born

1967 Norwich, England

Nationality

British

 

Academic Training

From

To

School/College/University

Qualifications Obtained

Oct 1999  

Jul 2001

Royal College of Art

MPhil RCA

Sep 1996

Sep 1998

University of Brighton

MA (Design)

Including

Feb 1998

May 1998

Rhode Island School of Design

(As an exchange student on the above MA Design course)

Oct 1991

Jun 1992

Sir John Cass Institute

London Metropolitan University

‘Stone setting, Diamond mounting and Die sinking ‘

South East Arts Grant Professional Training

Oct 1996

 

Hastings College of Art

BTEC Assessor Training Certificate NCVQ

Sep 1986

Jul 1989

West Surrey College of Art and Design

BA (Hons)

3-Dimensional Design (Metal)

Sep 1985

Jul 1986

Hastings College of Art

BTEC Foundation Certificate

Sep 1983

Jul 1985

Varndean College

2 x A level

2 x O Levels

Jan 1981

Jul 1983

Brighton College

2 x CSE

11 x O Levels

 

Professional Practice

2006

SILVERWEAR’ International ACJ Masterclass Conference Workshop at Sheffield Hallam University, (Organiser/Director Stephen Bottomley)

2006

‘Seeing is Believing’, ACJ Bristol lecture

2005

‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ Ars Ornata - workshop, Conference Lisbon

2004

‘Makers’ Talks 3: ‘Processes of Making’ - Viables Crafts Centre Basingstoke

2006

Victoria & Albert Museum, British Galleries WeekendWorkshops

2002

Contributor to the Brighton & Hove Museum Oral History Archive.

2002

Refine-Redefine, exhibition organiser, Hastings College Alumni metalwork show, Romney Marsh Gallery, Mar – May 2002

2002

Victoria & Albert Museum, British Galleries: The natural world in Gold’, Weekend workshop.

2001

Eastman Kodak 2D&3D Interface project, Exhibition Co-ordinator Hastings College of Art.

Sep 1999

Jewellery Maker/Shaman. Invited participant in the workshop & International symposium at the Rietveld Academie Amsterdam.

Mar - Jul 1999

Four months as studio assistant at Louis Mueller’s studio, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

1995-94

Exhibition organiser Looking Ahead Int. touring jewellery show; Leipzig Fair,Germany, 1995, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 1995; Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex, 1994, Galerie V&V, Vienna, Austria; 1994, Galerie Cebra, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1994 Exhibition Grants to tour this show were raised from:   The Foundation for Sport & the Arts, (1993);The British Council, (1993); and The Prince’s Trust (1992). Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex, 1994, Galerie V&V, Vienna, Austria; 1994, Galerie Cebra, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1994   Exhibition Grants to tour this show were raised from:       The Foundation for Sport & the Arts, (1993);The British Council, (1993); and The Prince’s Trust (1992).

1994

Patination Workshop - Hastings Museum, to accompany the Crafts Council exhibition ‘The Chemistry Set’

1993

‘Trading Places’, 2 day European Seminar, Nottingham.

1992

Training grant from ‘South East Arts’, at Sir John Cass    Institute of Art & Design, London.

1991

Dutch/German ‘Go and See’ Marketing Grant from the PYBT

 

Membership of Professional Organisations

Jul 2005–2007

Chairman

Association for Contemporary Jewellery

(Founding Director of ACJ LTD 2006)

Jul 2003/04

Executive Member+Vice Chair

 

2005

National Jewellery Steering Group

 

2002

Crafts Council Photo-store Register of Selected Makers

 

 

 

Publications

2007

2007 Tech-Tile, CREATE Conference, Managing Colour in Digital Processes & the Arts, Bristol School of Art Media and Design, UWE

2006

'Associated Lives, Meanings and Shared Directions', Paper at the Blue skies & Singing Rings AHRC Expert Network seminar, DANA Centre London

2005

Conference paper, 'Autonomatic', Falmouth Coll. of Art research centre

2004

Conference paper ‘Something Old – Something New’ the marriage of digital craft, S. Bottomley & D. Goodwin, Challenging Craft, Grey’s School of Art

2002

Brighton and Hove Museum Oral history project archive

2001

Conference paper ‘A Tool of our Time’, Goethe-Institute conference Kansai-Kyoto, Japan "Technology and IT for a City of Culture".

2001

‘Digit to the digital...’ Digital creativity, Swets & Zetlinger, Switzerland, 2001, Vol. 12, no.2, pp104-6

                                         

Employment

From

To

Employer, post held and brief description of duties

Jan 2008

Ongoing

Head of Department of Jewellery & Silversmithing, Edinburgh College of Art

Oct 2004

Jan 2008

Course leader BA Hons Metalwork and Jewellery Sheffield Hallam University

May 2005

Ongoing

University College for the Creative Arts, Kent - Rochester site

FE Course Consultant 2 days a year

Sep 2003

Feb 2004

University of Brighton

Lecturer, Post Graduate Certificate in Arts and Cultural Heritage (ArCH) Continuing Professional Development

 

Mar 2000

 

Feb 2004

Surrey Institute of Art and Design

Associate lecturer

BA (Hons) 3 Dimensional Design course – Metals.     

Aug 2002

Jul 2003

Aug 2003

 

Victoria & Albert Museum, Education Dept

2-day and evening workshops in the British and Medieval Galleries

Feb 2003

 

Sep 2002

Feb 2002

Sep 2001

 

Mar 2004

 

Mar 2004

Jun 2003

Mar 2004

Hastings College of Art 0.75 lecturer

Course Leader BA (Hons) Art & Design

Course Leader for the Professional Practice Certificate

0.60 lecturer Course Leader ND Graphics -3D Pathway

Lecturer HND Metalwork and Jewellery

Co-ordinator and lecturer for four evening OCN M&J classes

2002

+

1999

 

 

Rhode Island School of De sign, USA

Visiting Lecturer

MFA & BFA jewellery & metalwork programme

Sep 2001

Dec 2001

 

University of Brighton

Project co-ordinator

Eastman- Kodak Project at Hasting college.

Interface- photo media 2D to 3D

Oct 1999

Oct 1999

Massachusetts College of Art, USA

Visiting Lecturer MFA & BFA

Jewellery & Metalwork programme

Mar 1999

Jul 1999

Louis Mueller’s Studio, Providence USA

Silversmith and Design Studio assistant

Mar 1999

Mar 1999

Buckinghamshire University College of Art,

Visiting Lecturer, BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery

Feb 1999

Feb 1999

Camberwell College, The London Institute

Visiting Lecturer, BA Hons Silversmithing & Metalwork.

Sep 1992

Sep 2001

Hastings College of Art

Visiting lecturer: HND & HNC Crafts, HND 2D/3D Design,

BTEC Foundation studies, Special Needs Classes and Adult Education jewellery classes

 

Work in Permanent Collections

2001

British Museum, London, Medal Collection.

2001

Royal College of Art, GSM&J collection, London.

1999

South East Arts purchase for Brighton & Hove Museum Craft collection.

1998

Molina Fine Arts Collection, Arizona, USA.

 

Awards

Jun 2001

South East Arts travel award to lecture in Japan.

Jun 2001

British Council lecture in Japan at Goethe-Institute Kansai-Kyoto "Technology and IT for a City of Culture" conference, including further lectures in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo.

Jun 2001

100% Design Dalsouple Rubber Competition Highly Commended.

Oct 2000

South East Arts Major Award.

Feb 1990

Prince’s Youth Business Trust Grant

 

Press Reviews

Argento! 95

Zoom, Giula Macri, December 2001

Crafts Magazine

Lookout by Margot Coatts, March/April 2000

Applied technology

Exhibition catalogue. The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Craft showcase 2. Janet Stoyel & Stephen Bottomley 1999

Schmuck ‘99

Exhibition catalogue, Handwerk edition, 1999,

Financial Times Magazine 

How to spend it. Issue 25, May 1998

The Daily Telegraph

Fashion page, 16th December 1996

Gold + Silver

Looking Ahead review, April 1994

 

Selected Exhibitions

Sep - Oct 2008

Treasury of Digital Form, Galerie Handwerk, Munich

Jul - Oct 2008

Tech-tile, Solo-show, Hove Museum and Art Gallery

Apr 2008

Full Circle, Solo show, Gallery Studio Fusion, Oxo Tower Wharf

Apr 2008

Fired-Up, Group enamel jewellery, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Mar 2008

The Enamel experience, Velvet da Vinci, San Franciso

Dec 2007

Tech-tile, Solo-show, Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

May 2007

Reviving the Filigree, Póvoa de Lanhosa, Portugal

Jul 2006

Heirlooms, ACJ exhibition St Bartoph’s Church, London

Jul 2006

Re-Group, Westbourne Grove Church, London

Jun 2006

‘Am Ball’,  Der Goldene Schnitt, Karlsruhe, Germany

Jun 2006

Limited Edition, Golddigger Gallery, Belfast

Apr 2006

Loot, Museum of Art and Design, New York

Sep 2005

The Watkins Era, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

Jun 2005

Limited Edition, Manchester Craft & Design Centre

Jun 2004

Jewellery Unlimited, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Apr 2004

Solo showcase, Lesley Craze Gallery, London

Jul - Aug 2003

Summer Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Jul – Sep

Summer Exhibition, Crafts Council shop, V&A Museum, London

Oct 2002

Stephen Bottomley & Justin Marshall. Digital Creativity online exhibition - www.axisartists.org.uk/exhibitions

Oct 2002

Chicago SOFA, with The White Gallery, Brighton

May 2002

New York SOFA, with Mobilia gallery, Boston.

Nov 2001

L'Immagine del Gioiello/The image of jewellery, Alternatives gallery, Rome, Italy.

Oct 2001

Begium/British New Contemporaries, Villa De Bondt, Antwerp, Belgium.

May 2001

Solo show, The White Gallery, Brighton

May 2001

Paraphernalia, Romney Marsh Gallery, Lydd

May 2000

Solo Show, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

Mar - Dec 2000

Reliefs, Showcase Gallery V&V, Vienna, Austria

Feb 2000

Applied Technology, two person show, Hove Museum.

Nov 1999

Chicago SOFA- Jewellers Werk Gallery, Washington DC.

Oct 1999

Applied Technology, Two person show,

 

The Foyer gallery, Surrey Institute of Art & Design.

Sep - Oct 1999

Rook, Tower of the Beurs Van Berlag Museum, Amsterdam

Jul - Oct. 1999

Rare Finds, The New Ashgate gallery, Farnham.

Jul 1999

R.I.S.D Alumni show, Squansit Country Club, R.I, USA

Jul 1999

Showcase John McKellar Gallery, Hereford.

Mar 1999

Schmuck ‘99, International jewellery showcase, Munich.

Feb 1999

Art for Love. Nairi Sahakian Contemporary Art

Jan & Nov 1999

Brighton Up!  The Black Swan Gallery, Frome & Brewery Arts, Cirencester.

Oct 1998

‘British Week’, Molina Fine Art Jewellery, Arizona,USA.

Nov 1997

‘10th Anniversary show’, Galerie Cebra , Dusseldorf.

Aug 1996

Wired , One man show, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton.

Nov 1995

Jewellery 9, Leeds City Art Gallery.

Jun 1995

Gefullte Sommerlocher, Galerie Cebra , Dusseldorf.

Nov 1994

10th Anniversary Show, Leslie Craze, London.

Sep 1990 - Aug 91

Vice Versa, National Touring Exhibition of Ireland.