Silversmithing & Jewellery Design BA (Hons)

The award-winning BA (Hons) Silversmithing and Jewellery Design programme nurtures a dynamic, inclusive, and supportive learning environment that provides a balanced and specialist learning experience covering body adornment and fine metalworking aspects, from developing original design concepts to finely crafted finished work. <br/><br/>The programme embraces a broad approach to silversmithing and jewellery, from designing for commercial jewellery or silverware industries to pursuing personal and highly individual works intended for gallery exposure. The programme encourages links with manufacturing jewellers and individual makers, gallery curators and collectors, and live projects and competitions, helping students explore potential fields of interest and employability while developing graduate skills and attributes. <br/><br/>Within the programme, Studio courses provide a series of incremental project-based experiences with opportunities to reflect upon learning as it develops towards building a critical practice. Design History and Theory courses explore critical and contextual perspectives, and courses shared with other programmes, including Co-Lab and Design Domain, foster expanded perspectives by connecting broader domains of learning and knowledge. Opportunities for student international exchanges, collaborative learning, live projects, competitions, and careers and enterprise experiences help support how students develop graduate skills and attributes.

Explore your creativity at Glasgow School of Art, ranked #12 in the world for Art and Design (2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject). <br/><br/>The GSA offers an immersive creative education, with studio-based programmes across four specialist schools: Fine Art, Design, Architecture, and Innovation & Technology. Combining 150 years of research with modern thinking, each course provides 21st century teaching, designed to give your the skills needed for competitive creative industries. <br/><br/>Specialist on-site facilities include: architecture workshops, a media studio, photography labs, printmaking spaces, silversmithing and jewellery workshops and more. You’ll explore new technologies, experiment across media, and showcase your work in on-campus exhibitions.<br/><br/>The GSA has produced eight Turner Prize nominees and world-renowned alumni, including architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, painter Jenny Saville, fashion designer Pam Hogg, and actors Robbie Coltrane and Peter Capaldi.