Born:
1964, Bothwell, Scotland.
Education:
1981 – 1985, BSc. (Hons) Horticulture, London University
1994 – 1996, PGCSE (TQFE), Strathclyde University (including D 32, D33)
Relevant Employment History:
1976 – 1988, Various part-time and full-time work with John Gilchrist/The Ringmaker, Glasgow; Bench jeweller
1988 – 1990, Part-time lecturer
Current: Lecturer
Current: Independent jewellery maker
(Current employer details witheld at request of employer. Please contact me directly for details)
Further Personal Development:
2007 – Hand Engraving with Sam Alfano
2007 – Introductory Blacksmithing with Peat Oberon
2008 – Mokume Gane and Damascus Steel with Mark Constable
2009 – “Design at the Edge” workshops with Prof. Robert Ebendorf
Professional Organisations:
Current: Association of Contemporary Jewellers
Current: Society of North American Goldsmiths
Publications:
2008 – Paper: “Electrolytic Etching”, SNAG Technical Bulletin, 2nd Quarter
2009 – “1000 Ideas for Creative Re-Use”, ISBN: 978-1592535408
2010 – Book reviewer for “Findings” magazine
2010 - “500 Gemstone Jewels”, Lark Books, ISBN: 978-1600593413
2010 - “Found Object Jewellery”, Stackpole Books, Ed. Heather Skowood
Online galleries:
2008 – Carrotbox
2008 – Etsy, featured artist
2009 – V&A “Find, Make, Wear”, curated by Dorothy Hogg
2009 – HCJ Project, featured artist
2009 – ACJ Website, featured artist
2010 - Crafthaus, featured artist
Solo and Group Exhibitions:
1992 -1999 – Various PLE exhibitions around Europe
1999 – “Self-Defence In The Year 2000”, Connect Gallery, Glasgow
2005 – North Glasgow College Show, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
2009 – ACJ Scotland, Winter Show, WASPS Gallery, Dundee
2010 – Goldsmiths' Hall, Craft and Design Awards, London
2010 – ACJ Show, "Treasure", London Jewellery Week
2010 – Re:Collect, Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran, Wales
Competitions:
Finalist in PMC Studio open competition, 2006
Exhibited as part of Goldsmiths' Hall Craftsmanship and Design Awards, 2010
Development Within Teaching Environment:
3d Modelling and Animation (Unit, Computer Animation A3CN 04)
DDA training
Child protection training
Internal moderation and verification training
Internal quality assurance and procedures training
VLE
SQA National HN unit writing training
Validation and approval training
Emergency First Aid training (external qualification)
Managing Difficult Epilepsy training (external qualification)
Research, scholarly activity and subject updating:
2003 – Experimental Mokume processes
2005 – Experimental Niello processes
2006 – Safer methods of Etching; Electrolytic Etching
2008 – collaboration with Dee Wilder (polymer clay artist)
2009 – collaboration with Sergey Jivetin (jeweller)
2009 – collaboration with Emily Watson (jeweller)
2009 – collaborations with Lisa Stevens (ceramic artist)
Ongoing – Use of scrap materials to make fine jewellery
Ongoing – regular communications with other jewellers around the world
Teaching Responsibilities:
Fine jewellery techniques (NQ, HND)
Experimental jewellery techniques (NQ, HND)
Basic metallurgy (NQ)
Basic silversmithing and smallworking (NQ, HND)
CAD/CAM for jewellery (HND)
Photoshop (NQ)
Working with groups of students with learning difficulties
Working with schools groups
Invited Lecturer:
2006 – PLE Conference, Glasgow – Press-forming Techniques for the Small Workshop
2010 – ACJ Conference “Crossings”, West Dean, Sussex – Electrolytic Etching
2011 – Pittsburgh Centre for Contemporary Craft – The New Junk Jewellery
Additional Relevant Skills:
Basic conversational French and Italian; NSPCC-trained counsellor for children and young people.
Influences:
Rob Jackson; Robert Ebendorf; Pat Flynn; Keith LoBue; Gilbert Scott; Jules Verne; Edward Gorey; Tim Hunkin; Terry Gilliam; Renaissance jewellery and silverwares, especially ecclesiastical; Victorian mourning jewellery.
About the Artist:
Dauvit Alexander - who is also known as The Justified Sinner - is largely self-taught, chance leading him from the chosen path of landscape gardening and into the world of contemporary jewellery. Over the last thirty years, he has been developing his skills and it is only in the last few of those years that he has felt that his works are worthy of presentation to the public.
Dauvit grew up in the dying industrial heartland of the Central Belt of Scotland and watched the steelworks and shipyards breathe their last, the monuments to industry torn down, the cities, towns and cultures laid waste. It is from this destruction that his work grows: objects found in dereliction, bolts from rusted tractors, crushed lobster-pots, 300 sewing-machine needles from an abandoned sweatshop, a corroded spanner, the petrol cap from a 1950s truck... all of these have found their way into his recent work. Rescued, reworked, he uses these humble relics of the industrial past in conjunction with precious metals and stones and the techniques of fine jewellery to create objects which playfully evoke the idea of "nostalgia" whilst being fully up-to-date.
For my postal address and telephone number, mail me.