The city is my home. Every city I visit, every pavement I walk upon and every wall I come across tells me a story. They are unique stories about their inhabitants: their values, emotions, needs, dreams and desires... all are reflected on the surfaces of these urban environments. It is their constant evolutions which provide a boundless collection of juxtapositions: between the new and the old, between chaos and order, between the accidental and the calculated. Streets, buildings, walls, surfaces of various materials and colours become a mixing ground where boundaries clash, blur and dissolve.

There is a symbiosis in all of that – we change our environment and then we change in response to our environment. The city ‘wears’ us and in return we begin to ‘wear’ the city. I find all this beautiful, and it is by collecting those impressions and combining them, but at the same time contrasting them, with the fine aesthetics of jewellery that I create my work. Stitched, pierced, punched, melted, fused, cast, constructed, invented.... Small collisions, paradoxical jewellery sculptures from the everyday.

Paolo Scura, Milan, Italy

Education:
2010 Metropolitan University, London, U.K. B.A. Honours Jewellery and Applied Arts 2010
Dissertation: “With its ever-growing popularity over the last century, how does the consumer’s perceive value of costume jewellery in contemporary society?”
2005 CAPAC Polytechnic of Commerce, Mila, Italy Certificate in Jewellery and Silversmithing
2003 Primo Liceo di Brera, Milan, Italy Diploma in Fine Arts Areas of Concentration: Modern Art
1994 CAPAC Polytechnic of Commerce, Mila, Italy Certificate in Watchmaking

Group exhibitions:
2011 “Collect”-International Art Fair, Galerie Louise Smith, Galleries Saatchi, King’s Road, London | “Copious Beat”–Special Street Art event, Private space, Brick Lane, London | “Dialogue X” – Jewellery exhibition, Schmuck, Kungteiserei Schwabing, Munich | Silver festival - The Art Gallery in Legnica, Poland | Dialogue 10+, London, United Kingdom
2010 “New Designers” – Design and Craft graduate showcase, Business Design Centre, Upper Street , London | “Summer Show” – Jewellery exhibition, Metropolitan University, Whitechapel Road , London | “Dialogue 8” – Jewellery exhibition, Schmuck, Kungteiserei Schwabing, Munich
2009 “Love and Hate in any state” - Jewellery exhibition, Structure and Function Gallery, Ingestri place, London
2007 “Adorn” - Jewellery catwalk, Westbourne Grove Church, Notting Hill London

Additional courses:
2011 Blender 3D-London
2010 Concept Drawing –London
2009 SolidWorks - London
2005 Rhinoceros 3D - Milan | Stone Setting – Lion

Employment:
2010-Present Self-employed, London. Jewellery designer and maker
2008-Present Designer - Jewellery and accessories for Simon Harrison Ltd., Bartholomew Close, EC1A 7HP, London, U.K.
2004-2006 Designer/Maker - Fine jewellery for Forte Gioielli, Via Procaccini 44, 20154 Milan, Italy
2003 Internship - Fine jewellery. Kria Gioielli, Via Moscati 11, 20154 Milan, Italy
2001-2004 Freelancer P.R.- Fashion industry Milan, Italy
1994 Watch Repairer – Watchmaker & repairer. Mario Vidali, Via Gonzaga 4, Milano, Italy

Galerie Louise Smith, Amsterdam
Atta Gallery, Bangkok