WELCOME to BAMS
These medals are not to be found on the chests of heroes or in athletes' lockers. They are the contemporary expression of a much older tradition of medals as works of art.
The British Art Medal Society has commissioned medals from many distinguished contemporary sculptors. Their work is extremely varied. There is portraiture and abstraction, the neo-classical, the conceptual and the satirical. Some are struck from hand engraved dies, the majority are cast in bronze and patinated by the artist.
Hands and Grille
Parviz Tanavoli, 2006
cast bronze, 65 x 95
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Bookings are now closed for the BAMS annual conference in Newcastle Upon Tyne 27th -29th June 2008. Delegates will stay at The Royal Station Hotel.Visits are organized to the Laing Gallery and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The speakers will focus on a wide variety of medallic subjects and of course there is the traditional workshop.
If you've missed it this year, watch for news of the next conference to be held in Falmouth on 24th-26th April 2009.
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