Swords into Ploughshares

Swords into Ploughshares Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels
A social Intervention Project Developed by Norman Cherry & Dauvit Alexander

Posted • A fantastic panel discussion talking about the Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels exhibition that i...
26/02/2025

Posted • A fantastic panel discussion talking about the Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels exhibition that is opening today in the Reid Gallery Space.

This is a touring exhibition that is based on makers recycling knives into jewellery and objects.

Each maker has responded in a unique way… it was interesting to hear from Anna Gordon, Head of Silversmithing and Jewellery and Stephen Bottomley, Head of the School of Design - both of who have made pieces that are featuring in the show..!

Also on the screen : a QR code available to scan to purchase a catalogue for the exhibition. All the sales funds go towards funding the show as it tours across its multiple venues..!

Some shots from last week’s setting up of . What a super bunch of assistants .artists.in.residence and Malcolm the exh...
26/02/2025

Some shots from last week’s setting up of . What a super bunch of assistants .artists.in.residence and Malcolm the exhibitions technician: totally unflappable and extremely helpful. Every organisation should have access to assistance like this!

Meet Dauvit Alexander, Co Curator : ‘Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels’Dauvit Alexander is Senior Lecturer at...
26/02/2025

Meet Dauvit Alexander, Co Curator : ‘Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels’

Dauvit Alexander is Senior Lecturer at the BCU School of Jewellery. He is experienced in delivering socially-engaged projects. His jewellery uses unconventional combinations of materials such as corroded steel and iron with precious metals and gemstones. He has works in public collections, including the British Museum and Goldsmiths’ Hall and has recently co-curated the socially-engaged “{Queer}+{Metals}” exhibition as well as “No Laughing Matter”, an exhibition of work looking at the criminalising of the use of Nitrous Oxide.

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24/02/2025

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Posted • ‘Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels’Curated by Dauvit Alexander and Professor Norman Cherry, this i...
20/02/2025

Posted • ‘Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels’

Curated by Dauvit Alexander and Professor Norman Cherry, this is a powerful touring exhibition where makers have created innovative and exciting new bodies of work by refashioning, adapting or otherwise transforming knives surrendered to UK police, mainly through the West Midlands Police knife surrender scheme.

The Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art

Friday 21st February
Symposium : 3 - 4:30 pm
PV : 4:30 - 6:30 pm

22nd February - 12th March 2025
Exhibition Open : Mon - Sat , 10 - 4:30 pm



Thanks to khmdesign for additional graphic design work!

Posted • BOOK NOW !SYMPOSIUM , FRIDAY 21st FEB , 3 - 4:30 pmSwords into Ploughshares : Knives into Jewels Join Profess...
20/02/2025

Posted • BOOK NOW !

SYMPOSIUM , FRIDAY 21st FEB , 3 - 4:30 pm

Swords into Ploughshares : Knives into Jewels

Join Professor Norman Cherry and Dauvit Alexander, joint curators of the touring exhibition ‘Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels’ , for their talk and QnA led by Professor Ross Birrell, GSA Professor in Contemporary Art Practice & Critical Theory and including Professor Alistair Fraser from the School of Social & political Sciences at Glasgow University.

This event is FREE, but ticketed. To register, use the eventbrite link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swords-into-ploughshares-knives-into-jewels-symposium-tickets-1195691488429?aff=oddtdtcreator




Posted • Attend the Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels SymposiumDiscover how jewellers and metal artists hav...
06/02/2025

Posted • Attend the Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels Symposium

Discover how jewellers and metal artists have responded to the issue of knife crime in the UK, and hear from Professor Norman Cherry and Dauvit Alexander, curators of the Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels exhibition.

Date: 21 Feb 2025
Location: Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
Learn more - Opportunities link in bio

A preview of the exhibition will follow the talk. It features the work of international and Scotland-based makers including Anna Gordon , Stephen Bottomley and Daniel Freyne .

These makers have created innovative and exciting new bodies of work by refashioning, adapting or otherwise transforming knives surrendered to UK police, mainly through the West Midlands Police knife surrender scheme.

Image: Boris Bally, ‘Dressed to the Knives’/ Photography by Luke Unsworth

Posted • Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewells opening events 3-6pm at Glasgow School of Art 21st February 202...
30/01/2025

Posted • Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewells opening events 3-6pm at Glasgow School of Art 21st February 2025

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swords-into-ploughshares-knives-into-jewels-symposium-tickets-1195691488429?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=my-tickets&utm-share-source=my-tickets&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Both events and further information is posted on eventbrite by The Glasgow School of Art

Please register attendance by booking a free ticket

The touring exhibition of over 30 international artists sets out to examine the nationwide problem of knife crime by inviting jewellery and metals artists to respond to the issue, by repurposing knives obtained mainly through the West Midlands Police knife surrender scheme.

Curated by Dauvit Alexander and Professor Norman Cherry, this is a powerful touring exhibition of objects, small sculptures and items of jewellery, which range from pessimistic to playful, practical and even fanciful.



cherry Thanks to for additional graphic design work

Symposium event and exhibition opening in the Reid Building at Glasgow School of Art 21st February 2025 for “Swords into...
15/01/2025

Symposium event and exhibition opening in the Reid Building at Glasgow School of Art 21st February 2025 for “Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewells” 3-4.30 and 4.30-6pm

Both events and further information is posted on eventbrite by The Glasgow School of Art

Please register attendance by booking a free ticket

The touring exhibition of over 30 international artists sets out to examine the nationwide problem of knife crime by inviting jewellery and metals artists to respond to the issue, by repurposing knives obtained mainly through the West Midlands Police knife surrender scheme.

Curated by Dauvit Alexander and Professor Norman Cherry, this is a powerful touring exhibition of objects, small sculptures and items of jewellery, which range from pessimistic to playful, practical and even fanciful. The exhibition runs 22Feb-12March 2025

Posted • This was a pleasure to tussle. Link in bio to Vol. 7 of Journal of Jewellery Research. A review of when it w...
28/11/2024

Posted • This was a pleasure to tussle. Link in bio to Vol. 7 of Journal of Jewellery Research. A review of when it was exhibited last year 💎
This exhibition is a must see! Next 22nd Feb - 15th March 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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