Ann-Marie Carey

Dr Ann-Marie Carey is an Associate Professor in Jewellery. The duality of craftsmanship and technology is a constant thread in her research and she brings a subject-specific perspective to the examination and interpretation of artefacts and their production. The combination of craft, technical and academic expertise has been particularly appropriate in the heritage sector, where the artefact is often the only primary source of information. Through knowledge exchange residencies she has worked with Birmingham Museums Trust and the Museum of London (MoL) utilising craftsmanship expertise to deconstruct and recreate heritage artefacts. The outputs of her research made a significant contribution (eight exhibits) to ‘The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels’ exhibition (2013-14): the most successful exhibition in MoL’s history. More recently her innovative methodology is being applied to the eighteenth-century printing and punchcutting of John Baskerville.