ANASTASIA YOUNG MA(RCA)
Anastasia Young is a Birmingham-based jewellery artist, author and lecturer, whose work has been exhibited internationally. Young’s eclectic jewellery is often project based and driven by a combination of ideas and technical investigation; she uses narrative to explore both the design of a piece and its display when not being worn. Examples of her work are held in the permanent collections of the Science Museum, the British Museum and Central Saint Martins Museum.
Anastasia is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College, where she has lectured on the BA Jewellery course and taught Short Courses for two dcades; she has a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Anastasia has also taught at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University, at Morley College, London and the Hatton Jewellery Institute, Hong Kong, runing the online Jewellery Development Programme since 2019.
She is the author of four technical jewellery books - New Jewellery Techniques (Hoaki, 2022), The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques (Thames & Hudson, 2010), Gemstone Settings and The Jewellery Materials Sourcebook (both A&C Black) which have been translated into seven languages, and are considered key texts in their subject.
Anastasia Young is well known internationally as an educator through her teaching and writing over the last twenty years and has taught jewellery classes as far afield as Chile, in affiliation with the British Council. She also sits on the board of trustees of the Hand Engravers Association, which is dedicated to promoting the endangered craft of hand engraving in all its forms and is herself an award-winning surface engraver.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Silversmiths in Focus, Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham.
London Calling, Forgespace, London.
2023
Embellish: The Art of Hand Engraving, Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn.
2022
Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London.
2019
Connections/Connessioni, ACJ group show, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London.
Tales of the Subconscious, Gill Wing Gallery, London.
Verdadero es lo hecho: Exvotos y joyería contemporánea, Museo de Arte Popular, Argentina.
Inscribed, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London.
2018
Dislocated Systems, WALKA Studios, Santiago de Chile.
Short Courses Tutor Exhibition, Central Saint Martins Window Galleries, London.
Adorned Spaces, ACJ Group Show, SNAG Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Shelf Aware, Central Saint Martins Group Show, Vitsœ Showroom, Munich Jewellery Week.
2017
Jewellery Matters, Morley College, London.
20:20 Visions, Celebrating 20 Years of The Association for Contemporary Jewellery, NCCD, Sleaford; Sheffield Institute of Arts; The Goldsmiths Centre, London; School of Jewellery, Birmingham; Crafts Study Centre, UCA Farnham.
2015
Sleight of Hand, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Plymouth College of Art Gallery.
WeWALKA Gallery, Santiago de Chile.
2013
Stainless, Galvanise Festival, Sheffield.
Fresh, Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow.
Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London.
2012
Set: 40 Years of Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins, Lethaby Gallery, London.
2011
Conceptual Jewellery, Putti Gallery, Riga, Latvia.
2007
FIDEM XXX, 30th International Congress of Medallic Art, Colorado, USA.
2006
Experiments from the Spiders’ Laboratory, solo exhibition, Stables Gallery, London.
2004
Graduate Showcase, Galerie Marzee, Netherland
2002
A Bright Future, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London.
Inhorgenta, Munich, Germany.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
New Jewellery Techniques: Curved Scoring and Folding for Metalwork and Silversmithing, by Anastasia Young & Paul Wells, Hoaki, 2022.
New Bracelets, Nicolas Estrada, Promopress, 2020
Narrative Jewelry: Tales from the Toolbox, by Mark Fenn; Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2017
ECLAT: The Masters of New Jewelry Design, edited by Montse Borras; Promopress, 2014
Behind the Brooch, by Lorena Angulo; Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2014
The Guide to Gemstone Settings, by Anastasia Young; A & C Black, 2012
Showcase: 500 Rings, edited by Marthe Le Van; Lark Books, 2012
The Workbench Guide to Jewellery Techniques, by Anastasia Young; Thames & Hudson, 2010
The Jewellery Materials Sourcebook, by Anastasia Young; A & C Black, 2001
The Earrings Book, by Yvonne Kulagowski; A & C Black, 2007
The Art of Jewellery Design, by Elizabeth Olver; A & C Black, 2002
SELECTED AWARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
2022 Silver Award, Senior Engravers, Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Council Awards.
2017 Stereo-photographic collection of Dr. Brian May.
2013 Engraved paperweight at the Science Museum, London.
Silver Award, Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards.
2012 Commissioned by the International Palladium Board, “Palladium Visions” project for London Fashion Week.
2005 Commissioned by The British Art Medal Society.
Commendation, Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards.
2004 The Royal Mint Medal Competition, ESG Robinson Charitable Trust Award.
2001 Work selected for the collection of the Central Saint Martins Museum, London.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Author, 2005 - present.
Lecturer, Level 4 Coordinator: BA Jewellery & Objects, School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. April 2022 - May 2025.
Visiting Practitioner on the International Programme, WeWalka, Chile; British Council. 2015 and 2018.
Demonstration of engraving techniques at ‘All that Glitters’ - evening event at the Museum of London in conjunction with the Cheapside Hoard exhibition. October 2013.
Hourly paid lecturer, Morley College. July 2011 - Present.
Visiting Practitioner at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. May 2006 - 2022.
Self-employed Artist/Designer Jeweller, August 2004 - present.
Jewellery Short Course Tutor, Artscom Ltd. @ Central Saint Martins. October 2003 - present.
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
2024 Artist lecture, Slovenian Jewellery Week, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021 Developing Practice through Technical Innovation, with Paul Wells. Contemporary British Silversmiths 25th Anniversary Symposium, Celebrating Silver, De Montford University, Leicester.
2020 Artist Lecture to 1st year CSM BA Jewellery students; online.
2018 Autonomous Objects, Artist talk, WALKA Studios, Santiago, Chile.
Autonomous Objects, Artist talk, Morley College, London, UK.
2015 Clase Magistral, Artist talk, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
MEMBERSHIPS
Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain, (Trustee 2022-present), UK
Association for Contemporary Jewellery, (Board of Directors 2017-2025), UK
Society of North Americam Golsdmiths, USA
Klimt02, ES
Society of Authors, UK
British Arachnological Society, UK
Society of Jewellery Historians, UK