Nettie Birch MSDC
Jewellery
nbNg is the work of self instructed metalsmith & jeweller Nettie Birch. Nettie started her practice full time after being made redundant from the printing ink industry and uses her problem-solving background to explore the limits of material and technique.
Nettie uses the relatively new discipline of fold-forming to make tablewares and jewellery, predominantly in silver. She also utilises the far older skill of hand raising to create vessels from copper and aluminium, seeking to make these ordinary metals seem extraordinary. Her most recent pieces have been experimenting with the wide-ranging patination possibilities of copper, after a decade, bringing her back to colour and chemistry elements of her former career.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Forma Collective presents ClayLeatherMetalStoneWood - London UK
2016 Designer Makers at The Mall – Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries
2014 “Inspire” - Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne, UK
2013 “Make” - Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, UK
2012 “30 Years of Jewellery” - The Craft Centre & Design Gallery, Leeds UK
Selected Craft & Design Shows
2020 Craft Festival Cheltenham - online, GNCCF Summer - online
2019 Lustre - Nottingham, Made London Marylebone, Welbeck Winter Weekend - Harley Art Market
2018 Desire Jewellery & Silversmithing Fair - Winchester
2017 Made Canary Wharf, Salisbury Contemporary Craft, Handmade at Kew
2016 Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey, Made By Hand Cardiff
2015 “Craft” (Olympia), Made By Hand Cardiff, GNCCF, Made Brighton
2012 -2017 Desire Jewellery & Silversmithing Show
Awards
New Creative Markets - creative industry professional development programme at SPACE- 2014 intake
Teaching
1 Day Fold Forming Workshops – CreatStudio, Faversham, UK
Various Dates 2014-2017
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