After graduating from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University in Designed Metalwork and Jewellery Victoria Delany has gone on to do a year’s postgraduate training at Bishopsland Educational trust before being awarded a prestigious place on the Starter Studio scheme for silversmiths at Persistence works Yorkshire Artspace Sheffield.

She has exhibited this year at COLLECT at the Victoria and Albert museum London, One Year On as part of New Designers and at Selection London Design week.

Her Work can be seen at Twenty Twenty Applied Arts Much Wenlock Shropshire and in The Millennium Galleries Sheffield Silver Collection.

 

Education  
2004-2005 Post Graduate Training Bishopsland Educational trust
2000-2003 BA Hon’s Designed Metalwork and Jewellery Buckingham Chilterns University

Exhibitions and up coming Exhibitions
September 2008 Maison Et Objet Paris
June 2008 The Contemporary Craft fair Bovey Tracey
March 2008 Canary wharf window gallery London
December 2007 View from The Top Gallery Nottingham
November 2007 The Making with Bishopsland  
November 2007 Galvanized Festival of Contemporary Metal Design, Chatsworth
October 2007 Living Objects Exit Persistence works Yorkshire Artspace
August 2007 Moments of Indulgence Millennium Galleries Sheffield
August 2007 Bishopsland Retrospective Reading Oxfordshire
July 2007 CONNECT Collection Association Of British Designer Silversmith, Birmingham
March 2007 Designer Crafts for Contemporary Living Bilston Gallery
March 2007 Silver and Jewellery show Bonhoga Gallery Shetland
February 2007 Goldsmiths Competition Exhibition Goldsmiths hall London
December 2006 Christmas show Gallery Top, Chatsworth
November 2006 Little Gems 2 Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
September 2006 Selection Old Truman Brewery, London
June 2006 One Year On Business Design centre, London
January 2006 COLLECT 2006 V & A Museum, London
December 2005 Gorgeous Gifts Shire Gallery, Stafford
October 2005 N.A.M.E. Stoneleigh Park, Warwick
October 2005 Gorgeous Ironbridge museum, Shropshire
September 2005 Shimmer Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
August 2005 Retro Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading
July 2005 Henley Festival Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire
June 2005 JAM Eaton Applied Arts, Eaton
April 2005 Presteigne Presteigne art and silver show, Herefordshire
June 2004 Pewter Live Pewter’s Hall, London
April 2004 Dining Design Salon de Mobile, Milan
June 2003 New Designers The Business Design Centre, London
August 2003 Ignition Buckinghamshire Chilterns University, Buckinghamshire

Collections
Sheffield Millennium Galleries Silver Collection Silver decanter and cups
Bilston Craft Gallery collection Silver spoon

Competitions and Awards
September 2006 Awarded Place in Starter Silversmiths Studio Yorkshire Artspace
March 2005 Awarded placement with Malcolm Appleby
June 2003 Goldsmiths Bursary award
June 2002 First Prize Pewter live design competition

Publications
December 2007 ELLE Decoration
November 2007 Craftsman magazine
March/ April 2007 Crafts Magazine issue 205
November 2006 World Of Interiors Magazine
September 2006 Selection Design week
September 2006 Time Out London No.1883
June 2006 New Designers Design week
October 2005 The Quarterly (issue 14 p5)
18/06/2003 Bright Young Things Evening Standard

Galleries and commissions
2008 Three Silver Patterned Beakers for Pope and Oliver Makower
2007 Silver Plate Commission For The British Orthopaedic Association
2006 Sheffield Assay Office Commission for The Millenium Galleries silver collection
2005 Silver Spoon private client
2005 Fine Silver Beaker Private Client