Magda Delgado: A Pile of Passions

Magda Delgado won the Visitors’ Choice Award in the exhibition of Jackson’s Art Prize 2025 finalists at Bankside Gallery with her work Untitled (“Beauty as Consolation” series). In this interview, she discusses how she ripens her ideas before committing to paint, detaching from the ‘big soup of information’, and giving an older project another chance. Above image: Magda with her cat Serge Gainsbourg at her studio in UK     Josephine: Could you tell us about your artistic background? Magda: Mark-making is something that children enjoy; exploring with the help of brushes, crayons on the wall, sticks on sand, bare hands and paint on paper. Or focusing on textures, such as making sculptures/constructions on the beach, moulding clay, and combining objects, etc. Some of them enjoy it more than others, and some never lose that interest. That was my case. All the time spent with two and three-dimensional approaches was a pleasure, and I was always rewarded with such good reactions. In primary school, I would share an interest with a girl who would become a close friend. We would collaborate on some endeavors for almost a decade. At home, I had someone who was able to transform flat fabric …

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Recycling Precious Metals for Jewellers with Mark Cutler of Mastermelt (podcast episode)

With the rising price of gold and silver, every speck of precious metal
counts. 

In this week’s episode of the Jewellers Academy podcast, host Kelly
Twigg sits down with Mark Cutler from Mastermelt to explore the fascinating
and often overlooked process of reclaiming and refining precious metal
scrap for jewellers and metalsmiths.

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