Graham Stewart is a designer, gold and silversmith who has been running his workshop and gallery in Dunblane, Scotland since 1978. Working along with his small team of skilled and long established craftsmen, he produces innovative, clean-lined, sculptural pieces of silver from high profile commemorative presentation pieces to fine quality functional silver. The silver is produced using traditional techniques such as raising, spinning, cold forging, plannishing, and chasing. Graham specialises in fine hand-cut engraving. He also designs and makes a small range of fine jewellery.
Private and Public Collections
HM The Queen
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
HRH The Princess Royal
Baroness Thatcher
Victoria & Albert Museum (Rabinovitch Collection), London
The Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, Edinburgh
The British Embassy, Washington D.C.
The Bute House Millenium Collection, Edinburgh
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London
The Worshipful Company of Engineers, London
City of Birmingham Art Galleries
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Blair Castle, Keepers of the Quaich
Commissions
The Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London
Glenfiddich
The Scottish Parliment
The Caledonian Club, London
The Commonwealth Games
Unilever
BBC
Royal Company of Archers
Worshipful Company of Brewers
Stirling University Court
Parliamentarian of the Year Award (Westminster and Holyrood)
Dollar Academy
Recent Exhibitions
2008
Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Silver: Made in Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Treasures of Today, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Silver of the Stars, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
2007
Silver of the Stars, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Forbes Galleries, New York City, U.S.A.
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The World Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmith's Hall, London 1980 -2006, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2006
Millennium Collection for Bute House, Koldinghus, Denmark
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmiths' Hall, London 1980-2006, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Homes and Interiors Scotland, Craftscotland Exhibition, Glasgow
2005
Seymour Rabinovitch Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmiths' Hall, London 1980-2005, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield
Shimmer - Contemporary Silver from London Collections, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
2004
The Lion's Roar, Exhibition of Scottish Silversmiths, Helgetova Cihelna,Prague
The Millenium Collection for Bute House, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
2003
Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington D.C
The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2002
Celebration in Gold & Silver, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Innovation and Design, Exhibition of British Silversmiths, Denmark
Slice: Contemporary Tableware from the Collections of Seymour Rabinovitch, Royal Museum of Scotland,
Edinburgh and Aberdeen Art Gallery
10 Years On, The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Millenium Collection for Bute House, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2001
Graham Stewart - New Silver, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Millenium Collection for Bute House, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
2000
Treasures of the 20th Century - The Millennium Exhibition, Goldsmiths’Hall, London
Scottish Gallery Collection 2000, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Training
1973-1977 Design, Silversmithing & Jewellery
Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
1977-1978 Postgraduate Scholarship, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
Awards
Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of the City of London, 1996
Icons of Scotland 2007 "Made in Scotland - Best Jewellery"
FX Tourism Awards 1999 "Best Crafts" Argyll, The Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling & Trossachs Tourist Board
Galleries/Exhiblitions
Annual Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths' Hall,London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Graham Stewart Gallery, Dunblane