Copper Sculpture – Bowl and Spoon Making

There is plenty of time given to explore practical design and moving on to artistic and sculptural applications. The practical tasks will help you to become familiar with the tools used and give you confidence to move on from the copper sheet provided to using sterling silver.

Your tutor, Yvette Cannon, will expertly guide you through all the processes using a mixture of demonstrations and practical tasks. You'll start with an introduction to both metals, copper and silver.

You'll learn simple hammering techniques and practise with formers to create your own unique bowls, spoons, and beads which you'll further embellish to your own design. You'll try your hand at shaping using a sinusoidal stake and be shown how to produce an anticlastic curve (think Pringle). Although you'll work individually at your own pace, we'll move together as a group so you'll have the time to produce a variety of items.

• Sawing
• Annealing (making metal pliable through heating)
• Forging
• Raising (hammering a 3D shape from flat sheet metal)
• Doming
• Planishing (polishing)
• Soldering
• Surface texturing
• Sinusoidal stake (used to shape curves)
• Polishing (machine)

• Possess specialist skills needed to sculpt using both copper and silver, including techniques to shape, create texture, and polish
• Understand a range of processes related to metal sculpture, including annealing, forging, and soldering
• Have hands-on experience using specialist metal sculpting tools, including sinusoidal stakes
• Have increased confidence in your own skills and feel inspired
• Have boosted creativity and imagination
• Be encouraged to experiment and explore your ideas, remembering that there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• Possess the foundations to continue creating beyond this course
• Leave with a range of beautiful pieces designed and created by you

All students with 100% course attendance will be issued with an official AUB Short Course certificate of attendance.

After this course, you could:

• Continue to harness your creativity and develop your metal crafting skills further; explore our full range of Jewellery short courses
• Broaden your creative horizons and try your hand at a range of disciplines; explore our full range of evening and weekend courses
• Look forward to the future and start your academic journey by studying a Level 2 Skills Education Group accredited qualification in jewellery making
• Continue to develop your skills at home as a hobby

• You'll study at a leading specialist university – we know what we're doing when it comes to providing unparalleled courses
• Our tutors are industry professionals, so you'll learn from the best
• We cater for all abilities and have no formal entry requirements for this course, so there's nothing holding you back
• You'll learn in a safe and encouraging environment where there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• You'll learn 'by doing' and always feel fully included and supported
• Benefit from our incredible campus and its industry-standard studios, and use state-of-the-art equipment and software to unleash your creativity