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Ginta Grūbe- PhD candidate The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
Date of completion:
E-mail contact: ginta.grube@gmail.com
Ginta Grube (maiden name Zabarovska) is a Latvian based jewellery artist and a PhD researcher at The Art Academy of Latvia. Primarily her research seeks to enrich the historical analysis of jewellery art history in Latvia during the Post-Soviet period. The theme is jewellery art in Latvia from 1991 until present (2019/20). I focus on individual artists and collections that hold Latvian contemporary jewellery such as The Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, The Artists’ Union of Latvia etc.
Since 2015 PhD candidate within The Art Academy of Latvia located in Riga.
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AMAL AL-ISMAILI PhD candidate- completed in 2019
Sheffield Hallam University
Title: Interpreting the Traditional Jewellery of Bedouin in Oman through Contemporary Jewellery Practice
The aim of this research is to understand the subjective values associated with Omani traditional jewellery, based on the knowledge acquired from oral interviews with Bedouin women who are both makers and wearers of this jewellery. The study then seeks to interpret this traditional Bedouin jewellery through contemporary jewellery practice.
The methodology employed in this study is practice-based research that builds on knowledge developed through fieldwork1 and fieldwork2.
The insights gained from this research inspired me to create jewellery under the following themes- Jewellery and materials, Jewellery and mixed cultures; Jewellery and social practice, Jewellery and recycling and sustainability and Jewellery and technology.