GC&DC Award-Winners Exhibition at The Goldsmiths’ Centre until 12th September 2024

18 Jul 2024

The Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council (GC&DC), in collaboration with the Goldsmiths’ Centre, London are delighted to present an exhibition of Award-winning work from the 2023/24 Goldsmiths’ Competition, showcasing and celebrating entrant successes across 33 sections and other special, major and premier Awards, that represents the range, breadth and diversity of our industry’s specialist disciplines, activities and skills.

This Exhibition captures an excellent representation of the specialist disciplines inherent in these unique and industry-focused Craftsmanship and Design Awards, including winning entries from both the Goldsmiths’ Centre Foundation Programme students and Goldsmiths’ Company apprentices at all stages of their training to the Cartier winning Painted Enamel Portraits by Penny Davis.

At the Private View for the exhibition, the evening included short interviews by GC&DC Trustees Peter Crump and Judith Lockwood with winners Jo Boateng, Penny Davis and Janet Weller who all eloquently emphasised how the competition and extended GC&DC promotions have personally benefitted them.

The Private View was attended by the Prime Warden, Richard Reid and Annie Warburton, Clerk and CEO of the Goldsmiths’ Company along with GC&DC Patrons, Sponsors, Winners and industry guests.

In a welcoming address on behalf of Chair, Anne-Marie Reeves, Vice Chair, John Ball, highlighted the wide range of events and promotional activities undertaken by GC&DC since the Awards ceremony on 4th March.  

Anne-Marie Reeves, Chair GC&DC, shares,

“Our impressive array of Patrons and Sponsors are now extending their sponsorship to include ‘experiences’ for winners with a Master craftsperson which is proving to be invaluable. The future direction for GC&DC is being shaped to extend our community outreach into new areas, but never compromising our core values of excellence in creative design and fine craftsmanship, now with a greater emphasis on vocational skills development by fostering and developing our Patron partnerships”.   

The new 2024 Awards Annual with all award winners included, and feature articles, is now on sale from the Goldsmiths’ Centre Shop as well as on the GC&DC website.

Coming next...

There will be GC&DC Council members at the Centre each Wednesday to curate the exhibition with a programme of experts on some weeks to talk about various disciplines, such as exhibitions, press and PR, industry services, education and how to make the most of next year’s GC&DC Competition entries.

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Source: GC&DC