Jeweller Adam Paxon, who was based in Glasgow for several years before moving to England in 2006, is joint winner of the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2007: Jewellery.

Explaining his work he says “Taking influence from nature’s colourful language of warning and courtship I make mainly one-off pieces of acrylic jewellery.  Although diverse I find acrylic’s stock colours too insensitive, but processes of lamination, forming and carving allow the blending of colours and remove the material from its industrial/mass produced context. 

"I’m fascinated by the way pieces can be fixed to clothing or worn on the body and seek new and unusual approaches to wearability.  I’m also interested in pieces value as objects in their own right.  I try to give them a dual identity and often see them as ‘creatures to wear’.”

He has held solo exhibitions at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and the Galerie Hnoss in Gothenburg, as well as taking part in numerous two person and group exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe and USA. 

In 2000 he was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize: Jewellery, and in 2002 was awarded a Herbert Hofmann prize at Schmuck International Jewellery Exhibition in Munich.   His work was exhibited at Collect in London in 2004 and 2005.