BAMS STUDENT MEDAL PROJECT
2 OCTOBER - 31 OCTOBER 2021
We are delighted to be hosting this exhibition of medals designed and created by students from art colleges across the UK alongside medals by contemporary sculptors selected by the British Art Medal Society.
An annual project curated by the British Medal Art Society, students work to suggested themes for their research and design process. The exhibition will include medals selected during 2020 and 2021.
The theme for 2020 was Endangered Species - each medal has a design front and back and the winning designs cast into bronze as shown here.
The winning designs for this year have yet to be selected - the suggested theme of Black Lives Matter was given to the students at the start of the academic year. Deadline for submissions early March 2021. With difficulties in casting the medals this year due to access to facilities during the pandemic, the exhibition and awards given will include designs for medals.
Each year over 100 student medals from as many as 15 different art colleges, are submitted for judging for prizes and selection for exhibition. The British Medal Art Society has commissioned medals from many distinguished contemporary sculptors, glass engravers, jewellers, cartoonist and poets amongst many other creative practitioners. The Worshipful Company of Founders, the Worshipful Company of Cutlers and Thomas Fattorini Ltd are among the institutions that support the Student Medal Project and the British Museum sometimes purchases particularly meritorious student medals.
A catalogue for the 2020 Student Medal Project is available from the BAMS website.
Images here of last year's award winners:
An annual project curated by the British Medal Art Society, students work to suggested themes for their research and design process. The exhibition will include medals selected during 2020 and 2021.
The theme for 2020 was Endangered Species - each medal has a design front and back and the winning designs cast into bronze as shown here.
The winning designs for this year have yet to be selected - the suggested theme of Black Lives Matter was given to the students at the start of the academic year. Deadline for submissions early March 2021. With difficulties in casting the medals this year due to access to facilities during the pandemic, the exhibition and awards given will include designs for medals.
Each year over 100 student medals from as many as 15 different art colleges, are submitted for judging for prizes and selection for exhibition. The British Medal Art Society has commissioned medals from many distinguished contemporary sculptors, glass engravers, jewellers, cartoonist and poets amongst many other creative practitioners. The Worshipful Company of Founders, the Worshipful Company of Cutlers and Thomas Fattorini Ltd are among the institutions that support the Student Medal Project and the British Museum sometimes purchases particularly meritorious student medals.
A catalogue for the 2020 Student Medal Project is available from the BAMS website.
Images here of last year's award winners:
