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Education Bishopsland One Year Residency, 2012 - 2013 De Montfort University- First Class BA(Hons) Design Crafts, 2008 - 2011 York College- National Diploma 3D Design Crafts, 2006 - 2008 Awards/ Scholarships/ Masterclasses Bronze Award for 3D Design Smallworkers in Craftsmanship & Design Awards 2016, Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council. craft&design Award at MADE London 2015, awarded by craft&design magazine. Young Silversmith prize awarded by The Silver Society at Inspired Exhibition, Goldsmiths' Centre London, May 2015 Special Commission: A Hand Pierced Silver Skyline Tealight Holder presented as a gift to the Queen on her visit to Sheffield for Maundy Thursday, 2nd April 2015. Commissioned by the Assay Master, Ashley Carson at the Sheffield Assay Office and presented to the Queen by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. 'Little Gems Commission 'Sheffield Assay Office sponsored by Capella Bullion Dealers and Refiners, January 2014 Rod Kelly Chasing master class, Shetland 2013 Jacqueline Mina Gold Fusing Master class, 15th May 2013 and 16th May 2013 Awarded the Malcolm Appleby Award 2013 3rd Prize winner- Young Designer Silversmith Award 2013 Goldsmiths' Company. Goldsmiths’ Company Precious Metal Bursary 2012 Malcolm Appleby Engraving Master class, 14th January 2013 – 18th January 2013, Scotland Goldsmiths' Company Getting Started Course January 2012 Goldsmith’s Company Precious Metal Bursary Award 2010. Past Exhibitions Bovey Tracey Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey, Devon 9th - 11th June 2017 Inspired 2016 Goldsmiths’ Centre, Clerkenwell 3rd – 5th May 2016 RHS Wisley Craft in Focus,With Festival of Silver in the Glass house at RHS Wisley nr. Woking. 27th April – 1st May 2017 Chelsea Desire LONDON Chelsea Old Town Hall 3rd - 5th March 2017 The Art Market Holmfirth, Holmfirth Indoor Market Sunday 27th November 2016 Desire Winchester, Guildhall, Winchester, 11th – 13th November 2016 MADE London, One Marylebone 20th - 23rd October 2016 The Arts Market York, York Racecourse 30th September - 2nd October 2016 Salisbury Contemporary Craft & Heritage Festival, Cathedral Close, 9th - 11th September 2016 Art in Action, Waterperry House, Nr. Oxford, 14th – 17th July 2016 Craft in Focus, Henley Henley on Thames, 24th – 26th June 2016 MADE West Dean, West Dean Collage, 3rd - 5th June 2016 Inspired 2016, Goldsmiths’ Centre, Clerkenwell, 9th – 14th May 2016 Living Crafts Hatfield House, Hertfordshire 5th – 8th May 2016 RHS Wisley Craft in Focus, With Festival of Silver in the Glass house at RHS Wisley nr. Woking. 29th April 2016 – 2nd May 2016 Chelsea Desire LONDON Chelsea Old Town Hall 26th - 28th February 2016 Christmas at Bishopsland 2015, Nr Henley on Thames - 28th - 29th November Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios, Persistence Works, Sheffield - 20th - 22nd November 2015 Hand Made in Britain, London, Chelsea Old Town Hall - 13th - 15th November 2015 Desire, Winchester, Winchester, Guildhall SO23 9GH - 6th - 8th Novemebr 2015 MADE London, One Marylebone, 1 Marylebone Road, NW1 4AQ - 22nd - 25th October, 2015 Salisbury Craft and Heritage Festival, Salisbury Cathedral Close - 5th - 6th September 2015 Art in Action, Waterperry House, Waterperry, Near. Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ - 16th - 19th July 2015 'Up Your Street'Byard Arts, Cambridge - 18th June - 19th July 2015 'Inspired' exhibition, Festival of Silver, Goldsmiths Centre, 42 Britton Street, Clerkenwell,London, EC1M 5AD - 19th May – 23rd May 2015 Yorkshire Artspace Jewellery Day, Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS - 16th May 2015 Living Crafts, Hatfield House, Emerging Makers Tent - May 2015 RHS Wisley Craft in Focus, Festival of Silver - RHS Wisley nr Woking, GU23 6QB, 30th April — 4th May 2015 'Breath of Fresh Air' Exhibition, Byard Arts, Cambridge - 23rd April - 17th May 2015 Chelsea Desire LONDON Chelsea Old Town Hall, 6th - 8th March 2015 Desire, Winchester, with House of Jewellers - 7th November 2014 - 9th November 2014 Feast of Silver, Fortnum and Mason, London, 2nd October 2014 - 2nd November 2014 MADE London, with House of Jewellers - 23rd October 2014 - 26th October 2014 Salisbury Contemporary Craft & Heritage Fayre - 5th-7th September 2014 'Retrospective' Bishopsland - 25th-27th July 2014 Summer of Silver Exhibition, Payne and Son July - August 2014 RHS Wisley Arts Fest with House of Jewellers 28th-29th June 2014 Tour de France Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 9th June 2014 - 31st August 2014 Craft in Focus, with Festival of Silver, RHS Wisley - 31st April - 5th May 2014 - RHS Wisley ‘Inspired’ Festival of Silver, Goldsmiths Centre, London, 8th April 2014 – 12th April 2014 Bishopsland Contemporary Silver at The Drapers Hall London, 14th February 2014 – 28th February 2014 'Retrospective' Bishopsland, 7th August 2013 - 10th August 2013 ‘Art in Action’ with Bishopsland, Oxford, 18th July 2013 – 21st July 2013 ‘Craft in Focus’ with Bishopsland, Henley on Thames, 21st June 2013 – 23rd June 2013 ‘Craft in Focus’, Wisley Gardens, Surrey, 2nd May 2013 – 6th May 2013 Bishopsland Saville Club Exhibition, 69 Brook Street, London, 11th April 2013 – 26th April 2013 ‘Inspired’ Festival of Silver, Goldsmiths’ Centre, London 9th April 2013 – 13th April 2013 Christmas at Bishopsland, Bishopsland, Dunsden, 30th November 2012 – 2nd December 2012 ‘More Than Just a Pretty Face’, Back O’ the Shop, Terrington, August 2012 – October 2012 GP Studio Arch Window, London, May 9th- June 6th 2012 (http://www.gpstudio.uk.com/arch-window-project/) New Designers, London, June 28th- July 3rd 2011 Degree Show, De Montfort, Leicester, June 17th- 23rd 2011 All Manors of Wonder, Pedestrian Arts, Leicester, 6th-9th May 2010 End of Year Show, York College, July 2008 Professional Teaching ‘Ring in a Day’, 5th and 12th February 2013 - Reading College Evening Class at York School of Jewellery September - December 2011 Online Portfolio Arts thread- http://www.artsthread.com/p/jenricketts Featured on Business Boom Collective- http://businessboomcollective.com/1019/jen-ricketts Press Leicester Mercury 21st May 2011 “Award helps students design in precious metals” |