Jewellery isn’t jewellery to me anymore. That may sound strange and foreign, but the term jewellery has become a theme to me and not a discipline. To understand what I mean, I can only say that the human body, decoration and the traditional function of jewellery do not matter to me in my work. What matters to me is meaning and purpose, creating timeless pieces, which mark times in my own life, capturing emotions, thoughts and ideas. If anything, I endeavour to rebel against tradition, against society’s rigid rules and against the mundane structure of the human world, simply because the way the world works does not work for me.
The themes in my work revolve around several sub-themes. In the past these have involved time, natural history, nature, irony, contradiction and the escape from reality into a world where anything can be what it wants to be and nothing has to conform to society’s rigid rules and regulations. More recently, I have been exploring the invisible energy within second hand objects, natural phenomena, such as ghosts, and the meaning and purpose of myself as a human being. What has surfaced through this exploration is a deeper understanding of the world, a raw layer of reality, which is carefully hidden beneath the surface, invisible to the naked eye. What we see is surely not what we get. Quite on the contrary, what we see is only an illusion and my work attempts to question and taunt these, exposing the fleshy reality beneath. 

Sebastian Buescher, 1978 Cologne, Germany

Education
2006 MA Fine Art, University of Brighton, UK
2004 Ceramic workshop, London, UK | Glassblowing Introduction, London, UK
2000-2003 London Metropolitan University: BA Silversmithing Jewellery
and Allied Crafts
2000 School of Gemology and Allied Studies, London: Certificate Jewellery Introduction
1997-1998 University of Westminster, London: BA Graphic Information Design
1996-1997 University of Westminster, London: BTEC Foundation Course in Art and Design.

Collections
2006 The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Switzerland

Awards
2003 BJA Certificate of Merit | The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths: Goldsmith’s Award First Prize | Rashbell Marketing Award | Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council: Craftsmanship & Design Awards | Fashion Jewellers Finished Pieces Gold Award

Exhibitions
2007 The Pygmy Retrospective, Alternatives, Rome, Italy | Ars Ornata Europeana, Manchester, UK | MA Fine Art Interim Show, University of Brighton, UK |  ‘Object Rotterdam’, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Holland |  Klimt02 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain | ‘New Horizons’, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, Holland | Bircham Gallery, Norfolk, UK | ‘Collect’ Collections, Lesley Craze Gallery, London | Lesley Craze at Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2006 Editions Gallery, Maastricht, Holland | ‘Take Me Home, Contemporary Applied Arts, London | Pedras & Pessegos, Porto, Portugal | Charon Kransen at SOFA Chicago, USA | New Members Exhibition, Contemporary Applied Arts, London| Crafts Council Showcase, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Koru 2, Finland
2006 Charon Kransen at SOFA New York, USA | 'Bite and Sting' Exhibition, London | 'Points of Divergence', Crafts Council Shop, London | Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA | 'Collect' Collections, Lesley Craze Gallery, London | Lesley Craze at Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | 'Emerging Talents', Lesley Craze Gallery, London |  Charon Kransen at SOFA Palm Beach, USA
2005 Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, USA | Inspired Art Fair, London | Charon Kransen at SOFA Chicago, USA | Charon Kransen at The Int’l Art and Design Fair, New York, USA | Lesley Craze Gallery, London | Gill Wing, London | Bellagio Gallery, Ashville, North Carolina, USA | East Carolina University School of Art and Design, USA | Charon Kransen at SOFA New York, USA 1 Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, USA 1 Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair, London
2004 “Dialogue 4” Inhorgenta Munich | “Dialogue 4” Unit 2 Gallery London
2003 New Designers | Summer Show London Metropolitan University | “But Not for Sale” London Metropolitan University | Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards Exhibition

Solo exhibitions
2007 ‘The Red Collection’, The Vault at Quirk Gallery, Richmond, USA | Imperfection please, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, Holland

Work Experience
2007 Visiting Lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA | Visiting Lecture at London Metropolitan University, London
2006 Visiting Lecture at Middlesex University, London 

2007 Romancing The Stone, Manchester, UK | Crafts Magazine, Mar/Apr, London, UK | Vault Project Catalogue, Quirk Gallery, Virginia, USA | 7x7 Guide, Spring, San Francisco, USA
2006 Gallery Magazine, December, Ukraine | New Directions in Jewellery 2, Black Dog Publishing, UK | Koru 2 Exhibition Catalogue, Finland | Crafts Magazine ‘Big Ideas’, May/June, London, UK | Art Review, February 2006, London, UK | MFF Magazine for Fashion, January 15 2006, Milan, Italy | Crafts Magazine, Jan/Feb 2006, London, UK
2005 Lesley Craze Gallery, 2006 Events Catalogue, London UK | Metalsmith Magazine, vol 24 issue 4, USA
2004 Very Fasion 3, Styelguide, London, UK | Findings, issue 27, London, UK
2003 Elle Decoration, July, London UK
2002 Mushroom Magazine, October, Germany