Biography
Jane Adam (b. London, UK 1954) studied for a degree in Wood, Metal and Ceramics at Manchester Polytechnic and an MA in Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art. She has taught and lectured in Taiwan, Portugal, India, China, the USA and throughout the UK, and was a research fellow at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham from 1997 to 2001. She was a founder, vice-chair and chairman of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, and a maker trustee and co-vice chair of the Crafts Council. More recently, she was a trustee of Cockpit Arts where she had her workshop for many years before moving in 2015 to her own purpose-built studio in south-west London.
Her medium is metal but she is unconstrained by its traditional rules. She treasures ‘the magical moment when the right piece finds the right owner… By becoming part of the wearer’s experience and expression of self, my jewellery is transformed and completed… I know I have succeeded in making something relevant when other people respond by buying and wearing my work’.
