Born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, Sabina Dragusanu started making jewellery when she was only 12 years old, and what started as a hobby, soon became a passion. She moved to London in 2014 to study jewellery, and graduated from Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2017 with a BA (Hons) in Jewellery Design. Her graduate collection ‘Contemporary Embroidery’ was awarded with ‘Best Design’ by Theo Fennell, and was selected to take part in the ‘Marzee International Graduate Show 2017’. Sabina’s craftsmanship turns away from conventional jewellery materials. Highly passionate about nature, her work shows the different ways in which she tries to express that. Sabina has had her work exhibited all over the world, in places such as Galerie Marzee, JOYA Barcelona, Collect London, Venice Design Week and Fashion Week Brooklyn.
Projects
- NEIGHBOURHOOD LINKSNEIGHBOURHOOD LINKS is a material based collection, continuing on the theme of plastic upcycling (which I have been using in my latest collections). When lockdown came along, coincidentally, it was also the time when I ran out of plastic bags! Having stopped buying them, the stash I had gathered had finished, so with the help of my local community website, I started to ask my neighbours. I was pleasantly surprised to see people responding so positively to my request of taking away their ‘bag of
- Would you like a bag?Plastic bags - they are everywhere. We’re used to seeing them around, to using them, they are something common to our everyday lives. A cheap object that is useful for a certain amount of time, that can be easily discarded - they’re nothing precious. We’re also used to seeing them flying around, getting carried away by the wind, overflowing from our bins, laying around on the ground - nothing out of the ordinary. They’re someone else’s problem to solve, to discard of, to recycle. Someone else ha
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Work history
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Studio AssistantTufting London
London, United KingdomPart Time
Teaching the workshop, preparing materials for the workshop, helping to instruct the customers during the workshop, processing and finishing rugs, welcoming and helping the customers.
Production, Manufacturing and DesignTerrible Merch
- London, United KingdomFreelance
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Skills
- Jewellery Design
- Jewellery Making
- Contemporary Jewellery
- Fashion Jewellery
- Art Jewellery
- Computer Literate
- Artistic
- Management
- Adobe
- Microsoft Office
Education
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BA(Hons) Jewellery DesignCentral Saint Martins
London, United Kingdom
Awards
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Best DesignTheo Fennell