Sian has joined the Online Handmade Marketplace ETSY

Sian's Brand New Online Shop is now open with over 50 pieces of jewellery for sale, just click on the following link-Sian Haigh-Brown at ETSY

More of my work currently at Yorkshire Sculpture Park until the end of May... go and see for yourself...it is on until Sunday 26th May!

Degree Art: An Advent to Art, London

My work is sold all year round in the online shop www.degreeart.com...take a look!

MADE London 2012

What a successful stand we had; 07 Quarter Studios in The Crypt pod

My plinths

What a beautiful show!

Cheshire Open Studios

Last weekend I opened up my small but cosy workshop at home in Cheshire where I spend half my time making when away from the Jewellery Quarter as part of Cheshire Open Studios...

 It is an annual event that has taken place annually in Cheshire for fourteen years.  In 2011 it involved 61 artists and craft makers opening their studios, either as individuals or in-groups, over 3 weekends & this year it celebrates 15 years of Open Studios!

The event is spread over 4 weekends from mid-September to mid-October with an exhibition at Castle Arts Centre, Frodsham which will run for 6 weeks from 18th September to 2nd November

This initiative supports professional visual artists and craft makers who often work in isolation; enabling networking and mutual support and the project addresses the lack of contemporary galleries within Cheshire by promoting artists in their own spaces and encouraging new opportunities for residencies, commissions, selling, exhibiting and teaching. It is a unique chance to meet artists, to discover how and where they produce their work and provides the opportunity to buy from them directly at reasonable prices!

I am in a rural location onto of a small hill so it is very rare that the public get to see inside this little workshop, it was a wonderful weekend with lots of inspired visitors who took a step into my 'lost world'!....

Handmade bunting & hand painted signs decorated a marquee

The workshop was decorated with inspirational visuals

Work was displayed & for sale inside the marquee with a few commissions as well!

Inside was fully equipped with all my tools and equipment

...aswell as sketch books, CAD images and photographs of my working process

...from magazine cuttings & inspirational fashion designers from the French vogue

...to traditional gold work patterns of the 18th century

Many a customer signed the visitors book with some motivational comments...thankyou to all! & expressed an interest in workshops i am holding in the run up to Christmas

When it started to rain....guests didn't despair as there was seating hot drinks and biscuits provided!

...follow the yellow balloons and you will arrive at the hand painted sign!

A kind soul donated a beautiful bunch of fresh sunflowers to brighten up the grey cloudy skies!

...and theres a smiley me running some demonstrations to inspire and enthuse guests into the world of handmade jewellery!

New Work 'Donning Oxford'

Come along to 'Meet the Makers' to see some work that really does Oxford proud!

My new work at 'Donning Oxford'

The gallery setting 

Come and visit us at....

Quarter Studios this coming weekend; see where we work and what we make!

Birmingham Made Me

Thanks to Hannah Fewtrell-Bolton and her HCF boutique my work is being displayed at The Mailbox, Birmingham as part of Birmingham Made Me

Birmingham – the original design city – joins force with design guru to celebrate its successes

Design and brand guru, Alasdhair Willis – who recently designed a high profile campaign for David Beckham - has backed an ambitious initiative to showcase a selection of iconic designs created in Birmingham.

IDEA Birmingham – the business think tank led by Birmingham City University – has brought together a group of influential business leaders to promote great brands and products using the campaign theme, ‘Birmingham Made Me – The Original Design City’.

The ‘Birmingham Made Me’ initiative is set to be unveiled in the first week of April with an eye-catching, city-wide poster campaign promoting products made in Birmingham and the region. Almost 200 sites have been earmarked to promote the Design EXPO and Awards due t be held 15^th-22^nd June, at The Mailbox, Birmingham. 

The campaign concept, messaging and design have been created by Alasdhair Willis, the man behind the campaign for David Beckham's new Bodywear range. He works with a number of other high profile clients - as lead global consultant for the Adidas brand, including London 2012, and as creative consultant to Christies auction house, Alfred Dunhill and David Beckham. More recently, he has been working in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover.

The Birmingham Made Me campaign showcases world-beating innovations from the Midlands which has produced designs such as the Land Rover Defender, AGA Range cooker, Pashley Clubman bicycle and Brooks England saddles together with ground-breaking new hybrid supercar concept, the Jaguar C-X75, named the Most Significant Concept Vehicle in Detroit 2011, having been recognised as one of the vehicles most likely to shape the future of automotive industry.

“These, and a great deal more, will be on view at Birmingham’s first design EXPO in well over 100 years,” said Beverley Nielsen, Director Employer Engagement at Birmingham City University.  

The summer EXPO, explained Beverley, due to be held at Mailbox, the premier shopping centre in Birmingham, from June 15 to 22, is being organised by IDEA Birmingham founder members with the support of the Mailbox.

Willis, husband of Stella McCartney, has been supporting the work of Beverley Nielsen and colleagues at Birmingham City University, together with Stuart Kendall, strategy partner at Cogent Elliott, one of the largest advertising agencies outside London. 

The IDEA Birmingham think tank group includes business leaders such as Ian Callum, director of design at Jaguar, who is the Founder Chairman, William McGrath, Group Chief Executive at AGA Rangemaster, Glenn Howells of Glenn Howells Architects, Adrian Williams, Managing Director of Pashley Cycles, Charles Morgan of Morgan Motor Company, Steven Green, of Brooks England, Emma Bridgewater of Emma Bridgewater, other key Midlands brand leaders and Aston University.

The campaign has the support of Birmingham City Council and JCDecaux to promote the message, which is aimed at challenging perceptions about Birmingham and its ongoing design achievements.  

Willis, founder publisher of Wallpaper magazine, is now running his own creative and brand agencies Announcement Creative and The Anonymous Partner.

Stuart Kendall said: “It has been tremendous to work with Alasdhair and his team at Announcement Creative on the Birmingham Made Me campaign.  We are so lucky that he has invested this time and energy into developing this focussed and beautifully-executed campaign. 

“We need to accelerate our joint efforts to drive more business success and growth through increased collaboration.  Targeting international markets, opening up new partnerships between business and education, focussing business into new opportunities for knowledge transfer with our great university institutions and gaining a greater reputation for our design excellence can make great strides in moving our region forward.”

Willis is expected to play an important role in raising Birmingham’s design profile through the campaign and be beneficial to IDEA Birmingham and the City’s large student population. 

Come along to 'Donning Oxford'

Click on the Donning Oxford blog!

at the O3 Gallery

A Grand Chair

'MADE YOU LOOK' contemporary jewellery exhibition

@ Urban Coffee in the Jewellery Quarter

Donning Oxford-keep an eye out for developments coming soon...

Donning Oxford recent developments....

I am very excited to announce to be part of the forthcoming exhibition 'Donning Oxford' at the O3 Gallery, Oxford of Contemporary Art Jewellery inspired by Oxford itself...inspiration and developments will be coming soon!

2nd June- 1st July 2012

Alternate Canvas Final Collection

Hat Pin Collection

Barbauld 

Boscawen

Burney

Andover

Chapone

Delany

Edgeworth

Howard

Montagu

Pompador

Seward

Vesey

Vigree Le-Brun

Yearsley

'Alternate Canvas' Round Brooch Collection

'Alternate Canvas' Oval Brooch Collection

'Alternate Canvas' Rectangular Brooch Collection

Chain of Burden back

Chain of Burden front