ACJ is a company limited by guarantee. It is managed by a Board of Directors, assisted by the Advisory Panel.

Board of Directors:  Chair Terry Hunt, Deputy Chair Dauvit Alexander, Dr. Lynne Bartlett, Melanie Eddy, Dr Mahtab Hanna, Christine Johnson, Emma Paragreen, Rebecca Skeels, Anthony Wong and Anastasia Young.

Advisory Panel:   Jo Bloxham, Ruta Brown, Professor Jack Cunningham, Ute Decker, Mark Fenn, Jacqueline Gestetner, Joanna Hardy and Mark Lewis.

Regional representatives:  Dani Crompton, Anne Earls Boylan, Sophie Lowe, Anne Morgan, Gill Mallet, Charlotte Verity and Anne Walker.

Exhibitions Manager: Jo Haywood This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Editor of Findings : Jo Lally This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     

Administrator: Cheri Crump: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.                                       

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Terry Hunt, ACJ Chair

Terry is a designer-maker who retired in 2010 from his position as deputy head of Birmingham’s School of Jewellery.

The role of chair is his first formal one with ACJ, though his involvement with the association was initially as a founder-member and deputy to Norman Cherry, the first chair.

His practice has predominantly been concerned with exploration of surface pattern and colour using titanium and anodised aluminium. Most recently this has 'grown' to include larger sculptures in coloured plastics.

 

 

 Lynne Bartlett, Treasurer & Company Secretary

Lynne is a designer/maker and joined the ACJ soon after it was founded.
Having originally studied chemistry and worked for many years in the Chemical Industry, jewellery is her second career.
Her recently completed PhD at the University of the Arts London combined both strands of her interests. The use of colour in jewellery has been a dominant theme in her work and she currently uses titanium and dyed anodized aluminium. She is an FGA and an examiner for the Gem-A Foundation Course in Gemmology and a member of the Colour Group (GB). 

 

 

 

Dauvit Alexander, Deputy Chair & Director

Dauvit has been a bench jeweller for over 30 years, having trained as a boy with John Gilchrist in Glasgow and then taking a break to study landscape architecture before returning to the bench. His recent work utilising found, corroded iron has featured in exhibitions, books and magazines - most notably Lark Book's "500 Gemstone Jewels" and on the cover of ACJ Member, Mark Fenn's "Narrative Jewellery". He teaches internationally and is the programme leader for the HND Jewellery and Silversmithing at The School of Jewellery in Birmingham.

 

 

 

Melanie Eddy, Director

From her London studio based in the Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell, Melanie combines traditional approaches with new applications, creating sculptural jewellery that uses geometry as a tool to explore the relationship of form to the body. She specialises in a bespoke service. Trained in Bermuda, Canada, New York and London; she holds an MA Design: Jewellery from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and is now an Associate Lecturer there. Melanie is involved in jewellery design and manufacture through facilitating creative and professional development – projects undertaken include research, writing, editorial work, teaching, exhibition installation and curation. She has been working on jewellery sector initiatives surrounding skills enhancement and professional development for emerging makers in South Asia since 2010, primarily in Afghanistan. 

 

 

Emma Paragreen, Director

Emma is the Curator, Librarian and Archivist for the Sheffield Assay Office, she is the editor of the Bradbury’s Book of Hallmarks and gives regular lectures, talks on the work of assay offices’, hallmarking and the law.

Outside of work Emma is a Committee member of the Silver Society and current editor of the Silver Society newsletter. Emma is a member of Society of Jewellery Historians and in the last three years has completed her National Association of Jewellers, Professional Jewellers’ Diploma and recently become a Freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company.

 

 

 

Rebecca Skeels, Director

Rebecca Skeels started her business in 1994 after graduating from the University of Wales. Since 1994, Rebecca’s thirst for knowledge and her passion for sharing has led her to graduate from Central Saint Martin’s, MA Project by Design and achieving a PGC in Higher Education from the University for the Creative Arts. Rebecca is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

As a designer-maker, Rebecca’s work has been exhibited across Europe, in the USA and China and she continues to explore ideas and work collaboratively with like-minded designer-makers within different disciplines, utilising different materials. In parallel, Rebecca’s enthusiasm to encourage others to learn and to be creative led her to the position as Course Leader for Postgraduate courses in Craft at the University for the Creative Arts and now Senior Lecturer at the School of Jewellery At Birmingham City University in Jewellery and Objects. 

 

Anastasia Young, Director

Anastasia is a jewellery artist, author and lecturer, whose jewellery has been exhibited internationally. Her eclectic jewellery is often project based and driven by a combination of ideas and technical exploration using narrative to explore both the design of a piece and its display when not being worn. Examples of her work are held in the permanent collections of the Science Museum, London and Central Saint Martins Museum.

Having written three technical jewellery books (Thames & Hudson, A&C Black) which have been translated into seven languages, Anastasia is well known as an educator, through her teaching and writing. She regularly lectures at Central Saint Martins and Morley College.

 

Dr Mahtab Hanna, Director                                                                                                                                                                   Dr. Mahtab Hanna is a British jewellery artist with a Middle Eastern background who demonstrates true artistry in the field of marrying the indelible art of jewellery with the quasi-science of politics. 

With a PhD from Central Saint Martins and an MA from the Royal college of Art, Mahtab defines Political jewellery as the journey of making both a covert and overt statement of political views using body adornments and art jewellery.  It epitomises every woman’s right of equality in the form of political representation and ideology in the post-truth 21^st century.

Mahtab regularly sits on panels, is invited to speak and featured in numerous publications. 

 

 

 

 Cheri  Crump, Administrator

Cheri is a professional administrator located in South London. I am not a jeweller myself but do appreciate the talent and creativity that goes into making each glorious piece and I do love to wear beautiful jewellery.

Cheri works part-time for the ACJ as its administrator and is your first point of call for any queries.

 

 

 

 Jo Lally, Findings Leading Editor

Jo Lally is an active member of ACJ Wessex, who has recently completed an MA in Jewellery at UCA Farnham. She has a long standing passion for all kinds of jewellery, but especially anything different, creative and narrative. She has been working on combining words and images in jewellery. She also loves stones, the more unusual the better, and is a qualified gemmologist (FGA, DGA). Jo has a professional background in education, assessment and writing.