Course General Description

Jewellery & Silversmithing course is based on the traditions of craftsmanship, combined with a forward-thinking approach to designing and making. You’re encouraged to explore diverse approaches to jewellery and silversmithing and are provided with the specialist technical and creative skills required to develop, design and realise your ideas. We provide a stimulating creative environment where physical making and material investigation are at the core of what you’ll be doing, learning established hand skills and acknowledging the possibilities offered by digital making. You’ll have access to excellent workshops giving you the opportunity to work with a range of materials including metal, ceramics, glass, wood, plastics and textiles.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.