About Me
Personal Statement
Sharon Spiers is a designer and maker of contemporary jewellery. Her emerging work combines, a desire to celebrate traditional methods of making and the ways in which these can be incorporated with technological processes. Her work is driven by a passion for experimenting with raw materials and challenging the limits of their appropriation in the design and making process. Subtle narratives feature in Sharon's work. These narratives have been developed in response to, personal, cultural, social, and political events. They aim to stimulate inquiry from both the observer and wearer. Her creative practice and research focus are within Applied Art.
Qualifications
BA Hons Applied Art
Coventry University
Open Studies Certificate in Post Compulsory Education and Training
University of Warwick
Open Studies Certificate for Adult Literacy Subject Specialists
University of Warwick
Experience
As a well qualified, motivated, and highly experienced educator Sharon combines her creative practice with teaching. Her academic career to date has included teaching Art & Design at undergraduate level in the UK and English as a second language overseas.
She has worked by invitation on a consultancy basis with Coventry University School of Art and Design, planning and delivering English Language programmes for Art & Design practitioners overseas.
Sharon has led the National Art & Design Saturday Club at Coventry University a programme designed by the Sorrell Foundation to nurture creative talent in young people.