Karla Newell
Curriculum Leader for 3-Dimensional Design & Architecture
Senior Lecturer in Jewellery, Footwear and Fashion Accessories
I am a jewellery designer and an academic. I lead the 3-Dimensional Design & Architecture Curriculum Area on the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins. I teach jewellery and 3-dimensional design on the course. I have taught these disciplines since 1988 at Sheffield Hallam University and Middlesex University as well as CSM. At Central Saint Martins I was previous Pathway Leader for Artefact on BA Arts and Design. I am an experienced External Moderator, having worked for the University of the Arts Awarding Body for four years.
I am a practicing jewellery designer producing one-off pieces to private commission. My work features in the V&A permanent collection. I am also active in a related field of professional practice, focusing on the design of domestic outdoor spaces and gardens. Jewellery and garden design come together in an overriding interest in traditional craft skills, as well as in the investigation of surface texture, pattern and detail within a spatial and landscape context.
My current research interest focuses on the application of woodland craft practices and countryside skills in an urban context. I create private outdoor spaces, applying traditional rural construction techniques and using natural materials.
I won the Royal Horticultural Society & Daily Mail National Garden Competition. My garden design has had much publicity and exposure in the national press and television. It has also featured internationally, in magazines and in specialist garden design books. (i.e. ‘The RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Design’ by Dorling Kindersley and David Stevens’ “Backyard Blueprints”, published by Jacqui Small/Aurum Press)
PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Art, Design and Communication,
UAL MA(RCA) Metalwork and Jewellery, Royal College of Art
BA(Hons) Jewellery, Silversmithing and Allied Crafts, City of London Polytechnic