Birgit Marie Schmidt

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, 2011

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  http://www.birgitmarieschmidt.co.uk/

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• And when she turned around she saw that the horses kept walking back towards her. Tall horses and small horses, fair ones and dark ones. She tried to chase them off. Day after day, year after year. ‘Quick, quick. Run!’ It just didn’t feel right for them to be so close. But they still returned every morning and every night, quietly whispering poems in her ear in a language she didn’t understand. But my dear, these words were ravishing. And she kept thinking, ‘Do they hold on to me, or do I hold on to them?’


• Degrees

• Mag. arch. (MA Arch), Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, 2008

• Experience

• Workshop leader, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, 2011; Teaching experience, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Jewellery Design Dep., London, 2011; Jewellery design internship, River Island, London, 2010; Architect/Architectural assistant, Architects Collective, Vienna, Austria, 2007-9

• Exhibitions

• Welcome to the Body (Galerie Marzee at the RCA), Royal College of Art, 2011; Mini Exhibition, Various, London, Copenhagen, Singapore, Detroit, Belfast, 2010; Overcoat, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2009; Final Show, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2008

• Awards

• Winner, Matthews Wrightson Starting Your Own Business Award, 2011