Graham Stewart was a designer, gold and silversmith who ran his workshop and gallery in Dunblane, Scotland since 1978. Working along with his small team of skilled and long established craftsmen, he produced innovative, clean-lined, sculptural pieces of silver from high profile commemorative presentation pieces to fine quality functional silver. The silver was produced using traditional techniques such as raising, spinning, cold forging, planishing, and chasing. Graham specialised in fine hand-cut engraving. He also designed and made a small range of fine jewellery.
Private and Public Collections
HM The Queen
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
HRH The Princess Royal
Victoria & Albert Museum (Rabinovitch Collection), London
The Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, Edinburgh
The British Embassy, Washington D.C.
The Bute House Millenium Collection, Edinburgh
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London
The Worshipful Company of Engineers, London
The Pearson Silver Collection
City of Birmingham Art Galleries
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Blair Castle, Keepers of the Quaich
The University of Stirling
Queens College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
Commissions
The Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, Delhi, Manchester
The Royal Company of Archers
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
William Hill Scottish Cup Sponsor's Trophy
The Scottish Parliment
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, London
The Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh
The Great Steward of Scotland, Dumfries House Trust
William Hill (Ayr) Gold Cup
William Grant & Sons Ltd.
Glenfiddich
Weir Group
The Caledonian Club, London
BBC
Unilever
Worshipful Company of Brewers
Stirling University Court
Parliamentarian of the Year Award (Westminster and Holyrood)
Dollar Academy
St. Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh
Recent Exhibitions
2019
Inscribed: The Craft of Cutting Letters, The Goldsmiths' Centre, London
Lettering: Art & Illusion, Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin
2018
The Miniaturists, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2017
Architectural Silver Urban influences, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Silver of the Stars, The Goldsmiths' Centre, London
2016
Goldsmiths' Fair, The Goldsmiths' Hall, London
Silver Speaks: Form, The Goldsmiths' Centre, London
2015
Elements 1 Festival of Gold and Silver Edinburgh
2014
To the Letter, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Goldsmiths' Fair, Goldsmiths' Fair, London
Scottish Gold, The Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
The Contemporary Silver Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Linfield
Silver of the Stars, Inverness Art Gallery and Museum
2013
Silver of the Stars
Museum of Edinburgh, Scotland
Centre d' Artesania Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
2012
Goldsmiths' Fair, Goldsmiths' Hall, London (annually)
British Silver Week, The Contemporary Silver Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Lindfield
The Goldsmiths' Centre, London
Silver of the Stars
Krakow Historical Museum, Poland
Koldinghus Museum, Kolding, Denmark
2011
British Silver Week, Festival of Silver, Pangolin Masters Day, London
Silver of the Stars
2010
British Silver Week, De Vroomen Designs Ltd., London
Silver of the Stars
Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada
The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
2009
The British Silver Week Masters' Exhibition, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Rabinovitch Collection, Fairfax House Museum, York
Silver of the Stars, The Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, California
The Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada
2008
Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Silver: Made in Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Treasures of Today, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Silver of the Stars
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
2007
Silver of the Stars, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Forbes Galleries, New York City, U.S.A.
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The World Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmith's Hall, London 1980 -2006, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2006
Millennium Collection for Bute House, Koldinghus, Denmark
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmiths' Hall, London 1980-2006, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Homes and Interiors Scotland, Craftscotland Exhibition, Glasgow
2005
Seymour Rabinovitch Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Treasures of Today, Silver from Goldsmiths' Hall, London 1980-2005, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield
Shimmer - Contemporary Silver from London Collections, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
2004
The Lion's Roar, Exhibition of Scottish Silversmiths, Helgetova Cihelna,Prague
The Millenium Collection for Bute House, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
2003
Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington D.C
The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2002
Celebration in Gold & Silver, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Innovation and Design, Exhibition of British Silversmiths, Denmark
Slice: Contemporary Tableware from the Collections of Seymour Rabinovitch, Royal Museum of Scotland,
Edinburgh and Aberdeen Art Gallery
10 Years On, The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Millenium Collection for Bute House, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2001
Graham Stewart - New Silver, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Millenium Collection for Bute House, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
2000
Treasures of the 20th Century - The Millennium Exhibition, Goldsmiths’Hall, London
Scottish Gallery Collection 2000, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Training
Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
1977-1978 Postgraduate Scholarship
1973-1977 Design, Silversmithing & Jewellery
Awards
Honorary Degree of Doctor from the University of Stirling, 2010
Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of the City of London, 1996
Icons of Scotland 2007 "Made in Scotland - Best Jewellery"
FX Tourism Awards 1999 "Best Crafts" Argyll, The Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling & Trossachs Tourist Board
Galleries/Exhiblitions
Annual Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths' Hall, London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Graham Stewart Gallery, Dunblane
