Professor Stephen Bottomley joined the Glasgow School of Art as Head of the School of Design in 2022. A maker, craftsperson and curator he holds a MPhil from the Royal College of Art (2001), on the subject ‘CAD/CAM and the Jeweller, Making with New Technology’, a MA Design from the University of Brighton andwebsite profile a BA Hons in three-dimensional design. Stephen is SEDA accredited as a PhD director of studies and has a Higher Education Authority Fellowship. In 2018 he was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths with the Freedom of the City of London and was a previous vice chair and then chair of the UK Association for Contemporary Jewellery (2005-07).
Stephen’s work and research has been exhibited internationally and is held in the National Museums of Scotland and British Museum, among other permanent collections. He has curated several international exhibitions or inter-disciplinary workshops, resulting in publications and displays in locations which include; Chicago, Lake Garda, Beijing, Shanghai and Munich. Papers have been presented at International conferences and published in the Journal for Jewellery Research, as well as articles for the Art Jewellery Forum. He has reviewed grant applications for the Research Council Hong Kong since 2018 and is supervising several PhD students, with three completions to date.
Stephen was previously the first inaugural head of the Institute for Jewellery, Fashion and Textiles at Birmingham City University, having joined BCU in 2017 as Head of School of Jewellery where he authored a successful application for a Queen’s Anniversary Award for Higher Education in 2019. He was co-chair of the ‘Craft Cultures’ research cluster which he established in 2018 and had been chair of the RAFT research group at the Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh where he was the eca School of Design’s Post Graduate Director of Research, 2014-17 and Head of Department of Jewellery and Silversmithing, 2008-17.
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