About

Sarah O'Hana graduated in jewellery and silversmithing from Loughborough College of Art and Design in 1982. Her experience in designing, lecturing, writing about and creating jewellery spans over 40 years.

 

Watch her at work in her studio here

 

Sarah won a major award from Arts Council England to stage a leading European conference for contemporary jewellery, and has curated many exhibitions that introduced Spanish and Catalan art jewellers to Manchester, UK.

 

A curiosity of materials and emerging technology won her a Ph.D. in laser processing from The University of Manchester's School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering. This was an innovative project that brought together her own art practice with scientific process and led to several publications written on the benefits of cross-disciplinary research. Sarah became course director of the Jewellery and Object degree programme at the University of Lincoln, before joining Manchester Metropolitan University and the School of Jewellery in Birmingham.

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Sarah also has an interest in cooking and regularly consults cookery books for ideas, theories, and ingredients. Assembling ingredients for new dishes influences her work through colour, texture and composition.

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Sarah lives in Manchester where she now works freelance from her studio on jewellery designs for sale and for exhibitions.