One Day Ring Making

Name: One Day Ring Making
Start: 2026-06-13T11:00:00+12:00
End: 2026-06-14T07:00:00+12:00
Location: The Bench, 100 Collingwood St, Nelson

Schedule

Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 11:00 am to Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 am

UTC+12:00

Location

The Bench, 100 Collingwood St, Nelson | Nelson, NE

Led by Kay van Dyk.
In this course, you’ll be introduced to jewellery techniques such as sawing, texturing, shaping, soldering, and finishing. This is a fun and relaxed course that is suitable for absolute beginners.
You’ll begin by making a copper ring while you explore the tools and equipment, then move on to design and make a ring in sterling silver. Metals such as copper and brass can also be used in your final ring.
You’ll receive 8 grams of silver, with extra metal able to be purchased on the day, if needed.
Kay is a contemporary art jeweller and teacher from Whakatū Nelson, who has 25 years of experience teaching Adult Community Education jewellery classes.
Between 2011 and 2020, she tutored Object Design at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) Bachelor of Arts and Media programme and has exhibited throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand, and internationally. Her work can be found in a small number of galleries.
In 2021, Kay initiated Nelson Jewellery Week (NJW), a biennial celebration and showcase for national makers to come together in a series of exhibitions, workshops, and jewellery-related talks. She is the Creative Director of NJW, which is presented by Arts Council Nelson.
Kay van Dyk is a founding member of contemporary jewellery collective Project 21. Initiated in 2018, they exhibited their two-year project for Sympathetic Resonance at the Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatū in 2020 and have been touring Exquisite Corpse, a three-year project, since 2021.