Jane Adam
Education
1978-1981 BA(Hons) 3D Design, Manchester Polytechnic
1982-1985 MA(RCA) Metalwork and Jewellery, Royal College of Art
Public Collections (selected)
1984 Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Dept. of Prints and Drawings)
1985 & 2008 Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Dept. of Jewellery)
1986, 1999 & 2000 National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
1987 Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, New York
1987 & 2002 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
1989 & 2007 Shipley Art Gallery & Museum, Gateshead
1991 & 1999 Crafts Council, London
2002 MIMA, Middlesbrough
2003 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2004 National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast
2007 Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
2008 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2009 Hove Museum and Art Gallery
2010 & 2014 Goldsmiths’ Company, London
2017 Art Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
1999 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1999-2002 ‘Jane Adam Jewellery’, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales & British tour
2000 Arai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Noroeste, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2004 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, USA
2009 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Contemporary Applied Arts (showcase)
2010 Electrum Gallery, London (showcase)
Gallery CAJ, Kyoto, Japan
2013 ‘Jane Adam - Beyond the Surface’, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Selected Group Exhibitions (recent)
2000-2005 ‘Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA & international tour
2001-02 ‘Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Jewellery’, Crafts Council, London & tour
2007 ‘From Minimal to Bling’, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, USA
2008 ‘Contemporary Jewellery UK-Japan’, Gallery Shop Si, Kobe, Japan
‘Collect’, V&A Museum (with Cockpit Arts)
2009 Two-person exhibition (with Tom Hill), Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco
2010 ‘Natural Beauty’, Electrum Gallery, London
2011 Open Mind – International Contemporary Metal Art’, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 ‘Diamonds: Take a Fresh Look’, Lesley Craze Gallery, London
‘New Directions in Contemporary Crafts’, Mottisfont House, Romsey, Hampshire
2013 Contemporary Goldsmithing: Tradition and Excellence’, SNAG, USA (online)
‘Special’, Lesley Craze Gallery, London
2014 ‘30 Years in the Making’, Lesley Craze Gallery, London
2015 ‘A Sense of Jewellery’, Goldsmiths’ Centre, London
2017 ‘Make’, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales
‘Loot – MAD About Jewelry’, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
2018 ‘Melting Point’, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
‘Nexus’, Kirkcaldy Art Centre
Selected Publications and Broadcasts
2001 – current Film on art and empire, British Galleries, V&A Museum
2003 ‘Rich Alchemy: Jane Adam’, Ornament, USA
2005 ‘Jane Adam’, ‘Interior World’ magazine, Taiwan
2008 ‘The Face of Craft’, Craft and Design Magazine
2008 Interview with Corinne Julius, Woman’s Hour’, BBC Radio 4
2009 'Woman of Mettle', BBC Homes and Antiques magazine
2009 ‘Exhibition in Print’, Metalsmith magazine
2011 ‘21st Century Jewelry’, Martha le Van, Lark Books
2014 ‘I am Jane Adam’, Making Jewellery
2014 ‘One of Us: The Jane Adam Club’, Craft Arts International
Awards
1985 RCA Major Travelling Scholarship (to India)
1985 RCA Allen Lane Penguin Book Prize
1985 Crafts Council Setting Up Grant
1991 Visual Production Award, Greater London Arts
1997-2001 Research awards, University of Central England
2010 ACJ Origin Prize
Professional Experience
1972-1977 Worked in retail management at Heal’s, Guildford and London, and Liberty’s, London.
1985 Set up independent workshop in central London
1985-1997 Taught in various colleges and universities, UK
1992 British Council visiting lecturer, touring India with the exhibition ‘All That Glisters’
1994-2015 Studio at Cockpit Arts, London
1997-2001 Research Fellow, Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre, School of Jewellery, Birmingham
1997-2000 Founding member and vice chairman, Association for Contemporary Jewellery
2000 Guest presenter, SNAG conference, Boston, USA
Co-organiser, ‘A Sense of Wonder’, ACJ international conference,
Birmingham Guest speaker, ‘Aluminum by Design’international symposium,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2000-2002 Chairman, Association for Contemporary Jewellery
2001-2007 Member of Jewellery Purchasing Advisory Panel, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
2002-2010 Maker Trustee, Crafts Council
2003-2006 Chair, Crafts Council Development Award
2004 Visiting artist, Tainan National College of the Arts, Taiwan
2004-2007 External examiner, Glasgow School of Art
2009-2010 Co-deputy Chair, Crafts Council
2015 Set up new studio in West London
2015-current Trustee, Cockpit Arts
2016 Major commission for mobile, Kapor Center for Social Impact, Oakland, California, USA
