Dorothy Hogg
4 Brook Street
Jewellery Quarter
Birmingham
Celebrated jeweller Dorothy Hogg is the winner of the 2005 Brilliantly Birmingham jewellery award. This prestigious award, created by the RBSA Gallery and sponsored by Birmingham Assay Office, is awarded to the jeweller who, in the opinion of the panel, has made the greatest contribution to the world of designer-maker jewellery.
The award is for the commission of a piece of jewellery to be shown first of all at the RBSA Gallery during Brilliantly Birmingham and which will then join the permanent collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Dorothy Hogg has enjoyed a distinguished career both as an innovative jeweller and as an inspirational educator.
I make jewellery in silver and gold. Necklaces, earrings, bangles, brooches, rings. Modernist is the term applied to my work by critics. I am interested in an understated, minimal approach. I use forms and lines in opposition to each other. Tactile and kinetic qualities are explored using rhythms of line, the geometry of the jewellery moves and changes in response to the body, making it austerley sensual I hope.
In 2001 Dorothy was awarded an MBE for services to Jewellery and Silversmithing and in 2004 a Personal Chair, Professor of Edinburgh College of Art.