Students Success at Creative Fife Awards

A jewellery student from Carnegie College has won the award of Creative Student of the Year at the Creative Fife Awards 2008. Angela Boag is a full-time HND Jewellery student with the College’s School of Computing and Creative Arts. Two of the three finalists for the very first Creative Fife Student of the Year award came from Carnegie College. Kyle Mackay was also a finalist in this category with his Visual Communications entry, which included a logo and corporate identity design to be developed for a new retail shoe shop. Angela Boag submitted a solid silver necklace as her competition piece. Speaking about the necklace she said ‘The design brief was to design and make something associated with ‘movement’. I thought about my daughter and her ballet classes and from this concept the idea of ballet shoes came to me. To produce this piece I used new techniques including casting the mould in wax. The project also involved costing the design all the way through from initial concepts to manufacturing. The design can be adapted for other jewellery items such as bracelets and broaches.’     Angela Boag, Winner of the Creative Student of the Year Award 2008 Angela is a mature student from Dunfermline who has progressed from Jewellery Higher studies through to Higher National level with the aim to setting up her own business designing, manufacturing and selling jewellery in the future.  Kyle Mackay, Finalist   The awards, held at Rothes Halls, are an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of creative works from Fife and recognises the role they play in Fife’s economy. Creative Fife is the collective identity for all of Fife’s Creative Industries. Independently led and informed by a group representing the wide spectrum of the sector, its aims are to encourage and support creative businesses of all sizes in their development.