Sian Evans studied jewellery design, silversmithing and goldsmithing and has won numerous design awards for her fashion and fine jewellery design. For 13 years she was Senior Lecturer in BA Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts. She left UAL at the end of 2014 to pursue her design practice further and now regularly works as a jewellery design consultant, as well as creating fashion, fine and bespoke jewellery. Her work is inspired by interests in archaeology, fashion, geology nature and sustainable technologies; the history of tools, materials and making have informed her collections since she started her creative practice in 1986.
QEST funding will allow Sian to do a year of specialist training in the endangered skills of intaglio and cameo carving with QEST Scholar Charlotte De Syllas. These skills are very rare and few people in the UK have the training or experience to teach them. Once learnt, she plans to integrate them into her work and pass them on to other makers.
