SUSAN CROSS
‘As a jeweller I aim to explore the sensuality of the body through the tactility of materials.’
Susan Cross was born in 1964 in Herefordshire. She studied at Hereford College of Art & Design (1980-82) and specialised in Jewellery at Middlesex Polytechnic, London (1982-86).
After leaving college, Susan was awarded a Craft Council Setting-Up Grant to establish her studio, and took up a part-time teaching post at Crewe & Alsager College of Higher Education (later MMU Cheshire). At this time, Susan made work for the Electrum Gallery, the Craft Council at the V&A and for numerous exhibitions. She entered work for the Platinum Awards, for which she was awarded second prize two years in succession; these pieces are now held in the collections at the V&A and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
In 1989, Susan moved to Edinburgh, re-establishing her studio and taking up the role of part-time lecturer in the Jewellery & Silversmithing department at Edinburgh College of Art. Susan has been represented by The Scottish Gallery since her move north and has been invited to show in six solo exhibitions and several group shows at the gallery.
In 2007 Susan was joint winner of the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, Jewellery. In consequence, she was appointed Reader in Jewellery by Edinburgh College of Art and made an Honorary Fellow of Hereford College of Arts.
Susan has been invited to lecture at UK academic institutions and to be a member of judging panels. She has taught by invitation in Finland, India, New Zealand & South Korea.
Her work can be seen in the following public collections: V&A Museum; National Museum of Scotland; V&A Dundee; Crafts Council; Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; The Alice & Louis Koch Collection, Switzerland; Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts; Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts.
