Awards & Sponsorship

• About the Selected Awards
• 2012 Winners
• Specialist Judges • Prizes
• Previous Winners: 2011 | 2010 | 2009

Brett Payne

Jewellery & Precious Metals Category

Brett Payne
www.brettpayne.com

I have over twenty years experience as a Contemporary British Silversmith. I am a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’, a Council member of the Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council and a Director of British Silver Week. Since graduating from Sheffield Hallam University with a BA Hons in 3-Dimensional ...more

Miriam Rose

Specialist Media Category

Miriam Rose
www.romorexhibitions.co.uk

I originally qualified as a textiles teacher and worked as an examiner of practical coursework for many years, gaining considerable experience in assessing such work. As a director of Romor Exhibitions Ltd I have 30 years experience in organising craft and design events where every potential exhibitor has his/her work ...more

Geoff Cox

Ceramics Category

Geoff Cox
www.potfest.co.uk

Full time ceramic artist for 27 years (after 13 years in teaching), I have exhibited throughout the UK, Mainland Europe and Japan. I have organised Potfest since 1994 (the first potters’ market of any size in the UK), aiming to not only create a focal point for ceramics in the ...more

Peter Layton

Glass Category

Peter Layton
www.londonglassblowing.co.uk

I have been actively involved in the studio glass movement since its inception in this country, having been captivated by the seductive medium while teaching ceramics in the USA during the ‘60’s. I was a founding member of B.A.G (British Artist’s in Glass) and later, on its demise, initiated and ...more

Melissa Warren

Textiles & Needlecrafts Category

Melissa Warren
www.melissawarren.co.uk

I live and work in The Rhondda Valley in South Wales designing and making knitted textiles in my workshop/gallery ‘Lemon Blues’ . With my husband John and two sons, I moved to Wales 21 years ago. All of us are now in the Creative industries. I was privileged to study ...more

Robert Chapman

Wood & Metal Category

Robert Chapman
www.craftinfocus.com

Following a brief encounter with woodturning at school, the desire that some day I should like to work with wood had begun, and by the early 1990s woodturning had become my full time profession. 1999 saw the publication of my first book “Woodturning: A Fresh Approach”, and with invitations to ...more

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