PUBLICATIONS

Selected writing from exhibition catalogues and published articles

Bijoux de Femme 2025

Bijoux de Femme

2025
The exhibition at Musée du Bijou Contemporain in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, brought together 32 international jewellers to pay tribute to women who have inspired or influenced their lives.
Heat Exchange ll – Artists Exchanging Energy

Heat Exchange 2 – Artists Exchanging Energy

2015/6
Exhibition catalogue text by Susan Cross, for the European & UK touring exhibition ‘Heat Exchange 2’.
Back from the Front – Art, Memory and the Aftermath of War

Back from the Front–Art, Memory & the Aftermath of War

2014
‘Cuando Parti Una Manana De Verano’
(As I walked out One Midsummer Morning)

Exhibition text that was part of the installation that included five enamelled brooches and digitally printed textile. 

Susan Cross: Retrospective<br />
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2013

Susan Cross: Retrospective

2013
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

This essay was commissioned and written by Prof. Elizabeth Moignard, Glasgow University, for the exhibition catalogue.

Badges & Buttons - Waistcoats & Vests, 2012, brooches, mixed metals

Badges & Buttons – Waistcoats & Vests

2012
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco: Society of Contemporary Crafts. USA

Drawing, Permanence and Place

Drawing, Permanence And Place

2011/12
Exhibition catalogue text by Susan Cross, for the European & UK touring exhibition ‘Drawing, Permanence and Place’,
Susan Cross, Solo Exhibition at The Scottish Gallery

Jerwood Catalogue Entry

2007

Jerwood Jewellery Prizewinner – Susan Cross

Jerwood Jewellery Prizewinner – Susan Cross

2007/8
Feature article by Prof. Dorothy Hogg MBE, Head of Jewellery & Silversmithing, Edinburgh College of Art and commissioned by the Goldsmiths Review, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. 

Association for Contemporary Jewellery

Association for Contemporary Jewellery

2007
Jerwood Applied Arts Prize
Article by Melanie Eddy
Interview for Crafts Magazine by Emma Crichton Miller, no. 208 September/October 2007

Interview for Crafts Magazine

2007
by Emma Crichton Miller
Responses for the Crafts Council web page, 2007

Crafts Council

2007
Responses for the Crafts Council web page

Susan Cross, Process Works, 2007

Susan Cross – Process Works

2007
This essay was commissioned for the exhibition Process Works and was written from an interview with Paul Harper, visual artist & lecturer at London Metropolitan University, London.
The exhibition explored the creative inspiration and developmental work of five contemporary jewellers:
Susan Cross
Helen Carnac
Katy Hackney
Lin Cheung
Helen Turbe

Pensieri Preziosi 2005

Pensieri Preziosi

2005

Interface 2005

Interface

2005
An Exhibition of International Contemporary Art Textiles

Spyglass, focus on Susan Cross, by Alistair McAlpine

Spyglass

March 2000
Focus on Susan Cross ‘an armour in gold & silver’ written by Alistair McAlpine for Country Living Magazine.

Susan Cross, Solo Exhibition at The Scottish Gallery

Solo Exhibition at The Scottish Gallery

July 1995
Catalogue text written by Amanda Fielding.