Finlay Grant - Tangent: Preserve JarWinner of the IPG Award 2026
The IPG Award
Sponsored by the Institute of Professional Goldsmiths
Special Award
We are delighted to continue our enhanced partnership with long-term supporters, The Institute of Professional Goldsmiths, as Special Patrons to the GC&DC. Their Patron Award is dedicated to supporting the next generation of craftspeople for skills training delivered through their extensive and highly skilled membership, and supported in collaboration with the GC&DC.
This free-standing Special Patron Award is for students studying full or part-time on a recognised college or university course (jewellery, silversmithing, smallwork, the allied crafts, both 3D and 2D design students) entering work into the competition.
Course or subject leaders will be invited to nominate student entrants who they feel would most benefit from some invaluable work experience to develop their craft or design skills with a Fellow of the IPG.
Recommended entrant work will be assessed by a dedicated judging panel that will include representation from the IPG. All entrant nominations will be judged irrespective of any other awards that may have been won in the competition.
Taking the specific level of education into consideration, judges will be looking for:
Skills potential
Commendable use of tools and materials
Scale, proportion and accuracy
Quality of construction (showing promise) for 3D or understanding of manufacturing
Techniques for 2D students
Standard of finish overall
Innovative use of materials and processes (where appropriate)
Unmissable Opportunity
Following the Awards Ceremony next March, the winner of this prestigious Special Patron Award will liaise with the IPG to identify and arrange their skills training, which offers the chance to develop craft and/or design skills through invaluable work experience with a Fellow of the IPG, supported by the GC&DC.
They will also be given free IPG membership for a year, as well as access to all the benefits that the membership brings.
"The Institute of Professional Goldsmiths (IPG) exists to acknowledge and validate, encourage and educate, empower and promote Artisans in the field of Jewellery, Silversmithing and their Allied Trades.
Our objectives are to establish and maintain the highest standards of craftsmanship by individuals in our industry. To formally record, where appropriate, distinctive classifications of members defining professional attainments and to confer on authorised members the right to use the distinctive letters FIPG after their name defining them as a Fellow of The Institute of Professional Goldsmiths, thereby allowing them the use of the term Master Craftsman to describe their level of professional attainment. "
10 Jan 2027
Online Entry Form Submission Deadline
12 - 13 - 14 Jan 2027
Entry submission @
The Goldsmiths’ Centre
EC1M 5AD
8th Mar 2027
Awards Ceremony @
The Goldsmiths' Hall
EC2V 6BN
8 - 19 Mar 2027
Awards Exhibition & Events @
The Goldsmiths' Hall
EC2V 6BN
