Shona Marsh graduated from the School of Jewellery, Birmingham in 2005 and set up her inital workshop in rural Northamptonshire in 2006. In Febuary 2009 Shona moved to new premisies in the centre of Birmingham's historic Jewellery Quarter. She has been designing and making contemporary silverware since, exhibiting nationally. Shona Marsh is a visiting lecturer at Birminghams School of Jewellery and is currently the editor of the Contemporary British Silversmiths newsletter.
education:
BA(HONS) Tapestry, Edinburgh College of Art- graduated 2002
HND Jewellery and Silversmithing, Birmingham School of Jewellery- graduated 2005
awards:
2008 Graduate Award for Goldsmiths Fair 2008-
Awarded by the Goldsmiths Company
2006 Craftsmanship and Design Awards:
Silver Award and Commended in Technological Awards
Commended in Smallworkers Junior
2005 The Goldsmiths Company silver bursary
2005 Lonmin Platinum Design Innovation Award
2005 BJA Regent Silver Award for Silversmithing
2005 BJA Certificate of Merit to acknowledge hard work
and craftsmanship in the category HND Jewellery
and Silversmithing
2005 Miss Emma Jessie Phipps Bequest, awarded by UCE
2005 George Jackson Travel Bursary, awarded by UCE
memberships:
Awarded membership to Design Factory in December 2006
Graduate Member of the Contemporary British Silversmiths