‘Distressed’ platinum with fine gold fusion embellishment and polished platinum connectors.

Jacqueline Mina

Jacqueline Mina was born in Buckinghamshire, England in 1942.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art in 1965 she was a visiting lecturer there for twenty-two years, until 1994. Jacqueline has, over the years, become well-known for extending the possibilities of fusion between gold and platinum and for using traditional goldsmithing techniques in unorthodox ways.

She is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, a previous Trustee of Bishopsland Educational Trust, and was a founding committee member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery.

In 2011 a major retrospective of her work was exhibited at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London followed by a solo touring show at Contemporary Applied Arts London, the Scottish Gallery during the Edinburgh Festival, and subsequently at Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales into 2012.

Receiving many prizes and commissions, she was the winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Art 2000. Major public collections hold important examples of her art: the V&A Museum, the Crafts Council and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in London; National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, New York.

Jacqueline Mina was awarded the OBE in 2012 for her services to art.