Joanne Haywood

Joanne Haywood is a Mixed Media Art Jeweller, teacher, author and curator. She holds a BA (Hons) in Jewellery Design from Central Saint Martins. Her work incorporates both traditional jewellery, metalsmithing and textiles techniques alongside innovative and personal processes developed through years of material explorations and “playing”.

She established her own London studio in 2001 and a decade later moved to the Kentish countryside where her studio is surrounded by woodland, orchards and wildlife. Haywood’s work is often informed by nature, the changing seasons, folklore and mythology.

Exhibiting in the U.K. and internationally, Haywood has shown her work in Italy, USA, Japan, china, Germany, Spain, Hungary and Switzerland. Alongside her own collections and projects she has worked on a number of commissions for fine jewellery companies.

Since 2007, Haywood has also worked as freelance writer on jewellery and contemporary crafts. She published her first book “Mixed media Jewellery” in 2009 with the publishing house A&C Black and has also written chapters and articles for a range of publications and books, including “New Rings” by Nicolás Estrada, “Contemporary Jewellery Making Techniques” by Vannetta Seecherran and “Jewellery Using Textiles Techniques” by Sarah Keay.

Between 2016-2024 she worked for The Crafts Council, managing the Make Your Future programme for the first three years of its development before moving onto a broader range of education work, including a focus on FE, HE and craft careers. From 2023 she took on the management of Craft School: Material World, a national craft challenge to get learners and teachers making together - in partnership with The Eden project.

Currently she is Head of Programmes and Advocacy at The Association for Contemporary Jewellery, alongside a portfolio of freelance work and her own creative practice.