Lina Petersson

About Lina Petersson

I have been working as a jeweller and within different teaching contexts since I graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2006. In 2024 I left the U.K. to join the University of Gothenburg as Programme Supervisor for MFA Crafts and as Senior Lecturer in Jewellery. I am originally from Sweden, but have lived in the U.K for over 25 years.

For ten years I worked as Senior Lecturer in Jewellery and Silversmithing at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, and I have experience of working as a guest lecturer across a range of universities and institutions, such as Victoria and Albert Museum, Craftspace and the British Council. I have also had positions as External Examiner for City & Guilds of London Art School and Central Saint Martins – UAL.

In my teaching I am particularly interested in 'communities of practice', the principle of creating commonality and a sense of belonging. Therefore, it is important to me to establish the school as a living place where you work, to emphasize that students learn from each other, and that their voices should be heard and influence the environment. My experiences come from teaching groups of students with a broad, often international background. My work with my students is based on a strong commitment to idea development, through process, methods, and a strong relationship with materials. Developing students' ability to critically reflect, around their own learning, on choices they make and material investigations as well as within larger contexts, such as the context they work within, or against, are other areas I value greatly. Teaching for me is also a reflexive process, where I react in relation to my students.

My practice as a jeweller and maker consists of specific material explorations into a range of materials. Working with how colour and material come together to create a visual dialogue about process, form, and surface is at the core of what I do. The use of colour has always been central to my work and something I’m now investigating through my research with projects such as ‘Carved in Colour’ and ‘Testing Colour’. Carving in wood is a technique I often use in order to create form, but it is also a tool that in my opinion creates a tension between surface and material and between colour and the wood itself. These tactile and visual qualities are important elements to my practice. I always aim to surprise myself when making, to generate results that feel intuitive rather than overly premeditated and I’m currently excited to be working on developing new wall based work that draws on my aesthetic language and plays with materiality and colour.

My work has been exhibited internationally and I have an interest and experience of collaborate projects and residencies, having in the past worked with a broad range of partners, from fashion labels to museums and outreach organisations.