David Watkins

David Watkins

1940, Wolverhampton, England

1973 American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia
1973 Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
1973 Electrum Gallery, London
1975 “Recent Acrylic Jewellery and Body Forms”, Waterloo Place Gallery, London
1977 Bodyline: Superstructure”, Arnolfi ni Gallery, Bristol
1978 National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
1980 Galerie am Graben, Vienna
1982 Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1985 Jewellery and Sculpture (Retrospective), Crafts Council, London
1986 Jewellery and Sculpture (Retrospective), City Art Gallery, Leeds
1986 “David Watkins: Jewellery “ (Retrospective), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1987 “Ramshaw/Watkins,Schmuck/Jewellery” (Retrospective), Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim and Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau
1988 “Embraced”, Galerie Ra, Amsterdam
1989 Contemporary Applied Arts, London
1989 “Xingu”, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo
1990 “Xingu”, City Art Gallery, Birmingham
1993 “Jewellery Strategies”, Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo
2000 Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam

1974 “Collab 74”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1975 “New Materials in Design”, Science Museum, London
1976 “Jewellery in Europe”, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum
1977 “Explosion”, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
1977 “Schmuck 77 – Tendenzen”, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim
1980 “International Jewellery 1900 – 1980”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
1982 “Schmuck 82 -Tendenzen”, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim
1983 “International Exhibition of Jewellery Art”, Tokyo
1983 “New Departures in British Jewellery”, American Craft Museum,New York
1984 “Jewellery International”, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
1984 “Contemporary Jewellery”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto & Tokyo
1986 “Modern Jewellery 1964-86, Helen W Drutt Collection”,Philadelphia Museum of Art
1987 “Schmuck – Zeichen am Körper”, Francisco Carolinum, Linz
1987 “Joieria Europea Contemporánia”, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona
1989 “Ornamenta I”, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim
1990 “Gioielli e Legature: Artisti del XX Secolo”, Castello Sforzesco, Milan
1991 “Europäisches Kunsthandwerk”, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart
1993 “Subjects”, Design Forum Finland, Helsinki
1993 “Facet 1 International Jewellery Bienniale”, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
1994 “A New Century in European Design”, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo and touring Japan
1995 “Schmuckkunst der Moderne, Grossbritannien”, Landesmuseum, Mainz
1997 “British Design”, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
1998 “Jewellery Moves”, Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland
2000 ‘The Ego Adorned – 20th Century Artists’ Jewellery, Koningin Fabiolazaal, , Antwerp
2001 ‘Radiant Geometries’, American Craft Museum, New York
2001 The Art of Jewelry and the Artists’Jewels in the 20th Century, Museo degli Argenti, Firenze
2002 Zero Karats, American Craft Museum, New York

1981 “Nimbus”, Hereford Cathedral
1982 Chandelier, Victoria & Albert Museum
1987 “Cone Arbour”, Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
1989 “Pool Pavilion”, Kowloon Park, Hong Kong
1992 Entrance Sculpture, Braintree Tabor School
1992 “Two Wing Wave”, Henrietta House, London

American Craft Museum, New York
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Crafts Council, London
Helen Williams Drutt, Philadelphia
Inge Asenbaum, Vienna
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin
Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo
Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim
Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim
Science Museum, London
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London

1994 “The Best in Contemporary Jewellery”, Rotovision, ISBN 0-7134-7557-9
1999 “A Design Sourcebook: Jewellery”, New Holland, ISBN 1.85974.078.2
2000 “The Paper Jewelry Collection” (Joint Author: Wendy Ramshaw), Thames & Hudson.