Art Lecture 2021
Through the creation of her work Sofie Boons emerged as an Alchemical Jeweller. She finds inspiration in materials, the field of science and the world of scents, perfumes and smells. She is determined to find solutions for the visualisation and containment of invisible substances, concepts and scents through the design of jewellery and objects. Her research into the alchemical has already brought her to the development of a new material, combining resin and Nano gold particles, a recipe book on how to make wearable solid perfumes, scent containers that rethink the application and wearing of perfume and more.
Timetable
6.30pm: Join
6.40pm: Welcome & Introductions
7.10pm: An insight into the problem-solving processes required in the transformation of ideas using novel materials
7.30pm: Q&A session
8.30pm: END
Sofie Boons
Sofie Boons is an award-winning jewellery designer currently working as Craft Council Research Fellow and Research Associate for the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England. She is completing a PhD investigating the design implications, possibilities, and limits of utilising man-made crystals in the development of jewellery. Prior to starting her research Sofie worked as the Head of Academy for the British Academy of Jewellery. After graduating from the Royal College of Art she has continually exhibited her jewellery internationally and her artefacts are held in the collections of a range of industry leading galleries.
Iro Martidi GradIMMM
Iro is currently working as a Research Scientist in the Advanced Materials group at National Physical Laboratory. Her current research focus is on fabric permeability and composites processing, modelling and analysis of out-of-autoclave manufacturing techniques and the investigation of composites performance under Intermediate Rate testing.
Iro joined NPL, after completing her MSc in Composite Materials at Imperial College London during which she had the opportunity to be part of the Structural Power Composites team and investigate the Mechanical Characterization of spread-tow Carbon fabrics for multifunctional materials under the supervision of Prof. Emile Greenhalgh. During her MEng in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at University of Patras she discovered her passion for the study of composite materials and spent a semester as a Composites research intern at Element Materials Technology.
Outside work, Iro is an active volunteer for City Harvest. She enjoys bouldering and keeping fit but most of the time she can be found in parks playing with her dog.
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