Iona McCuaig
  • About Me
  • CV
  • Museum Outreach
    • Shining a Light - Falkirk Council
    • The Hive - Legacy Medal
    • SOJ Medal Collection Exhibition
    • Shakespeare Memorial Library
    • Sheffield Hallam - Unboxing Archives
    • Kettle's Yard - Open House
    • Broadway gallery
    • Kettle's Yard - Art to Go
  • STAKEHOLDER 210047
    • Royal Dilemma
    • Bank of Bacon
    • Currency of the Curriclum
    • 2016 >
      • Government Property
      • Barbie Body Amulet
    • I Cared Too Much
  • 2008-2015
    • MAKE DO & MEND
    • WELDING ROSETTE
    • ELVIS
    • AMBERIF
    • COCKTAIL STIRRERS
    • HOUSE SITTING
    • DARNING
    • GAMBLING
    • BEDSHEETS
    • SCHOOL SHIRT
    • FRY UP
    • DRYING GROUND
    • DRESS MAKING
    • WRITING LINES
    • NATURE
    • TAGS
    • PRECIOUS JEWELS
  • 2008
  • Social Engagement and Education
  • COMMISSIONS
  • SHOP
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EDUCATION


2016 - 2018     Royal College of Art. MA Jewellery and Metal. Distinction in Historical and Critical studies.

2010 - 2011     University of Cambridge. PGCE Secondary Art and Design.

2004 - 2008     Glasgow School of Art. BA (Hons) Silversmithing & Jewellery. First Class Honours with Distinction in Historical and Critical Studies.

2006        RMIT University, Melbourne. Gold and Silversmithing Department. Exchange Programme.
SELECTED TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020 - present. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. 

2018 - 2020. Associate Graduate Tutor. Cambridge School of visual and Performing Arts. Tutoring on post-graduate courses.

2018 - present. Freelance Education Facilitator. University of Cambridge Museums. Co-ordinating art  and design  workshops         with the learning department in response to museum collections.

2018 - 2019. Freelance Education Facilitator. Broadway Gallery, Letchworth. Delivering art workshops to local school children in response to gallery exhibition.

2018 - 2019. Archivist Assistant. Royal College of Art. Assisting with the recording and storage of the colleges’ Jewellery and Metal collection.

2014 - 2016. Applied Craft Lecturer. Cambridge School of  Visual and Performing Arts. Teaching on Summer School, Extended Diploma, Foundation courses.

2018 BA Tutor Internship. Sheffield Hallam University. Planned and delivered a week long project to BA (Hons) Year 2 students.

2013 - 2015. Resident Tutor. Friends’ School, Saffron Walden, Essex. Evening and weekend pastoral care of young persons in school boarding house.

2013 - 2014. Art and Design Teacher. Soham Village Collage, Cambridgeshire. Teaching the National Curriculum for Art and Design, assessment, curriculum development, extra curricular and pastoral duties, and professional development.

2011 - 2013. Art and Design Teacher. St. Mark’s Catholic School, Harlow.

2009 & 2010. Activity Worker. Bell International School, Cambridge. Co-ordinating an art and craft summer school programme for international students.

2008 - 2010. Artist in Residence. Friends’ School, Saffron Walden, Essex. Running extra curricular activities and ensuring the pastoral welfare of boarding students alongside continuing my own jewellery practice.

2004 - 2008. Carer/Activity Worker. Falkirk Council Children with Disabilities, Falkirk.
ARTS FACILITATOR 

2023  The Hive: New Standard Works, Birmingham  - Facilitating a commissioned project co-created with 50 community volunteers.
The commission acknowledges five years of support The Hive received from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and celebrates the people, activities and work taken place during that time. The work took inspiration from New Standard Works building archives and used print making, embroidery and metal embossing to produce an 8 foot wall managing medal.

2022    Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham - National Heritage Lottery funded project supporting Restore, a refugee charity, to visit Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library and explore archive material. Delivering creative workshops for participants to respond to archive material using printing and metal embossing techniques. Working alongside staff at The Hive to curate outcomes into two exhibitions, one at The Hive and the other at the Shakespeare Memorial Library in Birmingham.   

2019    Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, Letchworth Garden City. Working with a collection of objects from the Crafts Council Collection exhibited as part of Great and Small at Broadway Gallery. Planning and delivering art workshops to over 700 local primary school children over five weeks in response to the exhibition. 

2018     Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Employed as an Egypt Evaluator to plan and deliver creative workshops in response to the exhibition Photographing Tutankhamun. Engaging Cambridge communities in the exhibition and recording participant’s responses for publication in Research Excellence Framework.

2018     University of Cambridge Museums, Cambridge -  Working with the Fitzwilliam Museum Learning and Outreach department to design and deliver educational art workshops for young museum visitors in response to collections and exhibitions. Working with Kettle’s Yard Learning and Outreach team to develop an online art educational resource to improve remote engagement in the gallery. Lead a six week community outreach project as part of Kettle’s Yard Open House Programme, engaging  families and local schools in wellbeing activities through making. This resulted in a co-created community blanket exhibited as part of Meeting Ground in Nuns Way Pavilion.
​AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2024 & 2025 RAAD (Research in Art & Design), FRIS (Faculty Research Investment Scheme), Birmingham City University

2019    Work featured in publication; Rings: Alice and Louis Koch Collection by Anna Beatriz Chadour.   

2019    Work acquired by The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

2018     Graham Hughes Award.

2018     Theo Fennel Gilded Youth Project winner.

2018     Work featured in publication; Narrative Jewelley, Tales of the Toolbox by Mark Fenn.

2016     Griffin Scholarship. Full MA tuition fee grant.

2016     Stirlingshire Educational Trust Award.

2014     Competition entry selected for exhibition and publication at Amberif 2014.

2010     Work was acquired for the Alice and Louis Koch Collection in Geneva.

2009     Silver award,The Craftsmanship and Design awards, Goldsmiths Company.

2008     Incorporation of Hammermen Prize, Glasgow School of Art.

2008     Precious Metal Bursary,The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.

2007     Commendation, Glasgow University Hunter cup competition.
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2005     JD Kelly Memorial Prize, Glasgow School of Art.
EXHIBITIONS

2025         Shining a Light , Falkirk 
2025         Render, The Hive, Birmingham, UK
2023/24  Summer camp, Eastside Projects
2019         Art Licks, ASC Gallery, London, UK. 
2019         Paper Cuts, Saatchii Gallery, London, UK. 
2018         Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City, UK
2018         Royal College of Art, Graduate show, UK
2018         I Believe... Munich Jewellery Week, Munich
2018         Whipped Up, Kunstraum, London, UK
2018         Work in Progress, Royal Collage of Art, London, UK
2017         Work in Progress, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016         Goldsmiths Craft and Design Awards, Goldsmiths Hall, London, UK
2015         Goldsmiths Craft and Design Awards, Goldsmiths Hall, London, UK
2014         Craft and Conflict, Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston, UK
2014         Amberif, Gdansk, Poland
2013         Art on the Hill, Friends’ School, Saffron Walden, UK
2011/12    Brazen Studios, Merchant City, Glasgow, UK
2010         Octopus Gallery, Friends’ School, Saffron Walden, UK
2010         Dazzle Exhibitions, Merchant Square, Glasgow, UK
2010         Jacqueline’s Choice, Hampstead, London, UK
2009/10   Dazzle Exhibitions, National Theatre, London, UK
2009/10   War and Beauty, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2009         Park Gallery, Falkirk, UK
2009         New designers, ‘One Year On’, Design Centre, London, UK
2009         Dazzle Exhibitions, Merchant Square, Glasgow, UK
2008/09  Dazzle Exhibitions, National Theatre, London, UK
2008         Curiouser and Curiouser, Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Saltsmill, UK
2008         New Designers, Design Centre, London, UK
2008         Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2007         Republic of Place, Atrium Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2006         RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
PUBLICATIONS ​

​Journal of Jewellery Research, Vol. 7 - Exhibition Review : Swords into Ploughshares : Knives into Jewels.
Work featured in publication; Rings: Alice and Louis Koch Collection by Anna Beatriz Chadour.
Work featured in publication; Narrative Jewellery, Tales of the Toolbox by Mark Fenn.



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  • About Me
  • CV
  • Museum Outreach
    • Shining a Light - Falkirk Council
    • The Hive - Legacy Medal
    • SOJ Medal Collection Exhibition
    • Shakespeare Memorial Library
    • Sheffield Hallam - Unboxing Archives
    • Kettle's Yard - Open House
    • Broadway gallery
    • Kettle's Yard - Art to Go
  • STAKEHOLDER 210047
    • Royal Dilemma
    • Bank of Bacon
    • Currency of the Curriclum
    • 2016 >
      • Government Property
      • Barbie Body Amulet
    • I Cared Too Much
  • 2008-2015
    • MAKE DO & MEND
    • WELDING ROSETTE
    • ELVIS
    • AMBERIF
    • COCKTAIL STIRRERS
    • HOUSE SITTING
    • DARNING
    • GAMBLING
    • BEDSHEETS
    • SCHOOL SHIRT
    • FRY UP
    • DRYING GROUND
    • DRESS MAKING
    • WRITING LINES
    • NATURE
    • TAGS
    • PRECIOUS JEWELS
  • 2008
  • Social Engagement and Education
  • COMMISSIONS
  • SHOP