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David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''.
Retrieved 20 February 2018 In 2009 Graham Hughes wrote a joint biography of Watkins and his wife and fellow designer Wendy Ramshaw. In 2010 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, titled ''Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972-2010)''.Artist in Jewellery by David Watkins.
Dezeen Magazine, 22 February 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2011
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David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''.
Life
Watkins was born in Wolverhampton in 1940 and he is a graduate of the University of Reading (1963 Fine Arts) where he met his lifelong partnerWendy Ramshaw
Wendy Anne Jopling Ramshaw (26 May 1939 – 9 December 2018) was a British ceramicist, jeweller and sculptor. Her signature ringsets are in 70 public collections in both museums and art galleries.
Life
Ramshaw was born in Sunderland in 1939. She ...
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Ramshaw is a Royal Designer for Industry and he has produced work for the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
National Life Stories
National Life Stories is an independent charitable trust and limited company (registered as the ‘National Life Story Collection’) based within the British Library Oral History section, whose key focus and expertise is oral history fieldwork. S ...
conducted an oral history interview (C960/74) with Watkins in 2006 for its Crafts Lives collection held by the British Library.Watkins, David (1 of 3) National Life Stories Collection: Crafts Lives, British Library Board: 2006Retrieved 20 February 2018 In 2009 Graham Hughes wrote a joint biography of Watkins and his wife and fellow designer Wendy Ramshaw. In 2010 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, titled ''Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972-2010)''.
Dezeen Magazine, 22 February 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2011
Archived here.
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Selected publications
*''David Watkins encounters''. Barcelona: Sd-edicions-Hipòtesi joies, 2004. (With Barbara Cartlidge & Mònica Gaspar)Further reading
* ''David Watkins, Wendy Ramshaw: A Life’s Partnership''References
Further reading
*Chadour-Sampson, Beatriz. ''David Watkins, Artist in Jewellery''. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Watkins, David Living people English designers English medallists Alumni of the University of Reading Year of birth missing (living people) People from Wolverhampton