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Education
1973-74 Central School of Art and Design (part-time) - studied enamelling under Pat Furse
1974-75 Sir John Cass (part-time) studied engraving under Fred Fryer and Stan Reece
1963-67 Canterbury College of Art - silversmithing and industrial design four-year vocational course LSIAD in silver plate and cutlery. The course also included jewellery and some furniture
1957-63 Dane Court Technical High School, Broadstairs, Kent
Industry
1970-72 Concord Lighting International, London - designed a wide range of lighting products
1971-73 Kwok Hoi Chan, Design Consultant, Amsterdam - developed lighting projects
1967-70 Rank Bush Murphy Ltd (Staff Design Unit) London - designed television, stereo systems, radios and other domestic electrical equipment
Teaching
2009 July - retired from University teaching
2002 London Metropolitan University - Director of Short Courses, Jewellery and Silversmithing
1999 London Guildhall University - Senior Lecturer, organiser of new short course and masterclass programmes at Sir John Cass Centre for Silversmithing and Jewellery
1997 London Guildhall University - Senior Lecturer MA Matrix Jewellery and Silversmithing
1993 London Guildhall University - Senior Lecturer, Design Studies BA CAS Programme
1989 City of London Polytechnic - Senior Lecturer in 3D Design, Modular Degree Design Studies
1985 Kingston Polytechnic - Furniture School Visiting Tutor
1984 Wimbledon School of Art - Part-time Lecturer Foundation Studies
1981 City of London Polytechnic - Part-time Lecturer Foundation Studies
1976 City of London Polytechnic - Part-time Lecturer Jewellery Department
1974 Brixton Centre - Part-time Jewellery Tutor
Exhibitions
2024 Goldsmiths' Fair at Collect Art Fair - 100 Brooches
2021 Goldsmiths' Fair
2020 Goldsmiths' Fair Digital
2019 Inscribe, Goldsmiths' Centre
Two Lifetime Achievement Awards made for Malcolm Appleby and Wayne Parrott
Victoria & Albert Museum, London. New piece purchased for Collection, exhibited with Queen Victoria’s Coronet, and other new additions
Goldsmiths' Fair
2018 Desire, Chelsea Town Hall
Pictorum Gallery, photographs and papercuts
Goldsmiths' Fair
2017 Alan Craxford at 70, Jewellery, Silversmithing and Papercuts, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery
Goldsmiths' Fair
2016 Roger Billcliffe Gallery, 70th Birthday Celebration Showcase
Silver Speaks Form, a Contemporary British Silversmiths Exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Centre London
Goldsmiths’ Fair exhibition The Dark Side – Erin O’Connor Selects
2015 Science Museum, the opening of relocated Clock Museum with new display of the Hand Engravers Association Paperweight Project
Goldsmiths' Fair
2014 Shanghai, China – new works exhibited with Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery
Goldsmiths' Fair
2013 White Out, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery
Collect Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, with Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery
The Paperweight Project, Hand Engravers Association, The Clockmakers Museum
Goldsmiths' Fair
2012 Goldsmiths' Fair
2011 Treasure, Goldsmiths’ Company selection for London Jewellery Week
British Silver Week, new silversmithing pieces
Past Present and Future - Electrum at 40 – Electrum Gallery London
A Sparkling Proposal, Electrum Gallery, Jewellery and Paper Cuts
2010 Desire, Richmond
British Silver Week - work shown at four venues across the UK
Goldsmiths' Fair
2009 Jewellery – What’s it All About? Electrum Gallery, London
British Silver Week, David Fowkes Gallery, Nottinghamshire and John Higgins Modern Silver, Lindfield, East Sussex
Transformations, Solo exhibition at Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Silver with a Pinch of Salt, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2008 British Silver Week, Hamilton and Inches London
British Silver Week, Fresh Forms, Lesley Craze Gallery, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2007 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow, Solo exhibition of new silver vessels
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2006 Goldsmiths’ Fair
2005 On the Cuff, an exhibition of cufflinks, wearers and makers, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2004 Looking over my Shoulder, Lesley Craze Gallery, 20th anniversary exhibition
Jewellery Unlimited, Association for Contemporary Jewellery, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Collect Art Fair, Victoria and Albert Museum, represented by Metal Gallery
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2003 Art as a Jewel, Metal Gallery, London
Love Story, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2002 European Triennale Contemporary Jewellery 2002, Château de Seneffe, Belgium
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2001 Solo Exhibition at Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
The British are Coming, Elleard B Heffern Inc., Saint Louis, USA
Goldsmiths’ Fair
2000 Silver 2000, Crafts Council Shop at Victoria and Albert Museum
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1999 Contemporary British Silver, Lane Crawford Department Store, Hong Kong
One Man Exhibition, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
The Art of Cutlery, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Group exhibition, The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1998 Tea and Silver, Goldsmiths’ Hall
Objects of Desire, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1997 Goldsmiths’ Fair
1996 Group exhibition, Hilde Leiss Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1995 Herbst Messe, Frankfurt, Germany
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1994 What is Jewellery? Crafts Council Gallery, London, curated by David Poston
Chain Reaction, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
One-Man Exhibition, Electrum Gallery, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1993 The Eye of the Heart, Cecil Collins memorial exhibition at Central St. Martins, London
From Paper to Platinum, Leslie Craze Gallery, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1992 British Goldsmiths of Today, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1991 Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Electrum Gallery, London
Goldsmiths’ Fair
1990 Chelsea Comes to California, Orange County, California, USA
1986 Precious Elements, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
1985 Alan Craxford – Jeweller, Victoria and Albert Museum
Public Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum
2018 Pendant of the Hidden Worlds, gifted by Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner
1985 Wing earrings, engraved and carved niobium, anodised green and blue, with 18ct gold
Honours
2016 Freeman of the City of London
2011-23 Vice Chair and Exhibitions organiser, Hand Engravers Association
2007-11 Elected Chair of the Hand Engravers Association
1994 Freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company
Publications
2016 Barbara Cartlidge and Electrum Gallery – A Passion for Jewellery, Beatriz Chadour Sampson and Janice Hosegood
2009 Transformations, exhibition catalogue, Roger Billcliffe Gallery Glasgow
2008 New Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, launch book, Victoria and Albert Museum
2007 J-DEX review of Solo Exhibition Roger Billcliffe Gallery
Catalogue for Solo Exhibition at Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2004 Financial Times How to spend it
2002 Catalogue – European Triennial of Contemporary Jewellery
2001 Catalogue – Alan Craxford Jeweller – Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2000 Jewels and Jewellery by Clare Phillips
1999 Alan Craxford, Master Jeweller, catalogue
Catalogue of Art of Cutlery, Goldsmiths’ Hall
1998 Spring edition of Findings (Association of Contemporary Jewellery), review of Made to Wear exhibition
Catalogue of Tea and Silver, Goldsmiths’ Hall
1996 Financial Times How to Spend it
1994 Financial Times - work used to illustrate an article on contemporary crafts
Gold und Silber Magazine - full-page illustrated article
1993 From Paper to Platinum, catalogue, Leslie Craze Gallery
1992 British Goldsmiths of Today, catalogue, Goldsmiths’ Hall
1991 Goldsmiths’ Fair – exhibited for the first time
1985 Alan Craxford – Jeweller, Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated publication to accompany solo exhibition
