This laser-welded piece made from 958 Britannia silver was commissioned by the Makower Silver Collection for the National Museum of Wales. An oxidised vessel with linear decoration, it was inspired by the mining industry.
For over 25 years Kevin Grey worked in factories making metal parts for luxury cars, but as the industry became less about human skill and more about machines, Kevin felt a desire to return to making things by hand. So he decided to give up his job and retrain as a silversmith. “It just felt right,” he says, and indeed it was the right decision, since he is now one of the UK’s foremost silver sculptors. Working out of his studio in the famous Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, the home of British jewellery making for hundreds of years, he has won the prestigious Goldsmith Company Award three times.
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This laser-welded piece made from 958 Britannia silver was commissioned by the Makower Silver Collection for the National Museum of Wales. An oxidised vessel with linear decoration, it was inspired by the mining industry.
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This sterling silver TIG-welded piece reflects on the first discovered black hole; the edge denotes the event’s horizon. Simple forms conveyed through lines and volume are essential to Kevin’s vision of beauty.
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Made from TIG-welded 925 sterling silver, Animus was created as a response to continuous revolving thought, a fractured, torturous process. In 2017, this piece achieved a record-breaking figure for a contemporary silversmith auction.
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This 952 Britannia silver and gold piece is asymmetric in such a way that the structure and its mirror image are not superimposable.
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Kevin explores the contrasting relationship between the smooth interior of this raised and planished bowl with its irregular exterior. The meeting creates an unplanned jagged or serriform edge.