Sofie Boons is a jeweller working as Senior Lecturer in Design Crafts at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). She recently completed a four-year Crafts Council Research Fellowship at the Centre for Print Research. For her research she has successfully achieved funding for two research residencies to Idar-Oberstein in Germany, including at theUniversity of Applied Sciences Trier/ Idar-Oberstein, where she has been guest lecturing. Prior to starting her research, Sofie worked as the Head of Academy for the British Academy of Jewellery. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2013 she has continually exhibited her work internationally under the moniker ‘The Alchemical Jeweller’ and her artefacts are held in the collections of a range of industry leading galleries.
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