Salima Thakker

Biographie

  • 1993-1997 BA , Department of Audiovisual and Fine Art,
  • Option Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1997-1998 Technical apprenticeship at the Istituto Statale d’Arte
  • ‘Pietro Selvatico’, Padova, Italy
  • 1998-2000 MA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and
  • Jewellery at the Royal College of Art, London, England
  • 1995-1997 Apprenticeship at Galery Sofie Lachaert, Gent, Belgium
  • 2000 Designer for the collections of ‘Damiani’en ‘Salvini’, Casa Damiani, Milan, Italy
  • 2001 Interim teacher at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Department Jewellery and Metalwork, St-Niklaas, Belgium

Exhibits in public art collections

  • 2000 Cube Ring, Kruithuis Museum, The Netherlands

Awards

  • 2000 Goldsmiths Craft and Design Award, Fashion Jewellery
  • 2000 Nicole Stöber Memorial Award
  • 2000 The Royal College of Art Society and Waterstones Prize
  • 2002 “Henry Van De Velde” Award, Award for the best Product of 2002
  • 2003 International “Diamond High Council” Award, Finalist

Exhibitions

  • 1995 Bijoux Contemporains, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art
  • Contemporains, Nice, France
  • 1996 Het Belgisch Diamantjuweel 1996, Provincial
  • Diamantmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1996 Joint Jewellery Design Display, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1997 Cel 30, Galery Sofie Lachaert, Gent, Belgium
  • 1997 Graduation Show ’97, Galery Marzee, Nijmegen,
  • The Netherlands
  • 1997 Ringen, Galery Ademloos, The Hague,The Netherlands
  • 1998 Group-exhibition, Galery Sofie Lachaert, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1999 ‘Table de fin de siècle’, Galery Sofie Lachaert, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2000 Goldsmiths Craft and Design Award Exhibition, London
  • England
  • 2000 The Show, Royal College of Art, London, England
  • 2000 Graduation Show ’00, Galery Marzee, Nijmegen,The Netherlands
  • 2001 Sieraden. De keuze van Apeldoorn., Van Reekum Historical Museum of Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
  • 2002 Salima Thakker & David Huycke, Galery Sofie Lachaert,
  • Belgium
  • 2002 Schmuck 2002, München, Germany
  • 2003 group exhibition (Marchetti, Jendis), Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)
  • Sotheby´s 2003, CDA, London (UK)
  • International Design Fair, New York, USA
  • 2004 BIO 19, Biennial of Industrial Design, Ljubliana, Slowenja
  • 2005 Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  • Exhibition (in collaboration with Annamaria Zanella), Galerie Slavik, Vienna

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