http://www.amazon.com/Showcase-500-Rings-Directions-Jewelry/dp/1454702885 My first feature in a book! Check it out - page 270. Add Comment  a mechanism: a device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. Believed to date back to the 4th millennium BC, the wheel and other mechanisms that followed it were developed as tools to enable humans to move objects from place to place. Mechanisms require the application of gravity or an external force to activate them. This project explores how the motion of taking a ring out of its box can be translated into the unexpected. For a movement to be unexpected activating it cannot be a conscious choice. A ring must be taken from its box in order to be worn and so lifting it is not a considered action but a necessary part of wearing the ring. In the box the stone hangs below its setting. But by taking the incomplete ring from its box the wearer unknowingly creates a combination of gravity and vertical motion enough to raise the stone into the empty setting and complete the ring.   to animate: to impart motion to / to give life to. My work explores the potential mechanisms have to become animators of objects by imparting motion where it is not expected and injecting playfulness and life into conventionally static jewellery forms.     http://www.marzee.nl/galerie/2011/royal-college-of-art-effe-kijken-4-lets-have-a-look-iv/ Work currently on show at Galerie Marzee. Pro 12 Rugby Trophy 07/11/2011
 Pro 12 Rugby Trophy - Press Launch August 16th 2011! Rachel's Engagement Ring 17/06/2011
Design for Rachel's engagement ring. Made by Juraj Vyrostek. Waddesdon Manor 10/03/2011
A celebration of the humble teaspoon. 
Work recently completed for Waddesdon Manor gift shop. Received runner up prize. Carling Nations Cup 2011 14/02/2011
 Designed by Joanna Hemsley Made by Thomas Lyte Silver http://www.thomaslyte.com/department/trophy-gallery/ Carling Nations Cup Website http://www.carling.com/football/nationscup/trophy Featured on BBC Sport Northern Ireland - check it out on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6DnSoypOA Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_Cup_(football) Press Release http://www.duffyrafferty.com/roi/clash-of-celtic-pride-as-carling-nations-cup-trophy-unveiled/  Breathe Life into Me 04/01/2011
 Breathe life into me Work created for Galerie Marzee exhibition "Welcome to the Body" An exploration of objects that are bought to life by human breath. Take a straw and blow into the pendant and watch as it jumps to life!   ACROSSRCA - Methods Lab 2010. 20/11/2010
Designing for the community with the Helen Hamlyn Centre. Designing for our future selves. Interdisciplinary project designing creative solutions for the ageing in Kensington. Link to Website http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/3504/all/1/team-proposals.aspx  Before One of the four trophies I restored for the Royal Singapore Yacht Club. Now featured in Peter Dunlop's book "Three Burgees" http://www.rsyc.org.sg/article/page.asp?id=261 After   | Joanna HemsleyCurrent work from MA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery, Royal College of Art, London. ArchivesMay 2012 Categories |
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