Alex Ramsay designs and makes an award winning range of contemporary silverware, specialising in combining silver with hand blown glass. She has run her established London business for 8 years.
Her exceptional standards of design and craftsmanship continue to be recognised and celebrated – most notably by The Goldsmiths’ Company who commissioned 2 bowls for the Modern Silver Collection in 2009. Alex was also featured in an Olympic film about creative London businesses, and the 2012 organisers presented her work to the Mayor of Haidien Province at the Beijing games.
In May 2010 a pair of Nitrate Negative Bowls were exhibited at ‘Objects of Light’ - as part of a European Symposium of Contemporary Silversmithing at The Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen. The pieces were voted for by Museum visitors and over 100 assembled European silversmiths, and were awarded second prize.
The Nitrate Negative Series is inspired by silver nitrate photography, and explores ideas of positive and negative, reflection and shadow through the unique and distinctive combination of glass and silver. Doubled skinned silver objects are made and hand pierced to create intricate, layered and cut away patterns that explore and reference those in the glass. Two objects become a unique pair, balancing and reflecting each other.
The functional collection includes sugar bowls, water jugs and vessels, salt and pepper pots and spoons – while the more sculptural collection features large decorative bowls and table centerpieces.
Alex exhibits and sells her work at prestigious venues such as Goldsmiths’ Fair, ORIGIN and COLLECT, and is represented at a number of select galleries in the UK and abroad, including the Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen and Lilly Zeligman in The Netherlands.