The GC&DC Launches its Awards Annual 2025 in Celebration of this Year’s Outstanding Winners
12 Aug 2025
The Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council (GC&DC) has launched its 2025 Awards Annual — an elegant book comprising detailed photography, in-depth interviews, and articles inspired by its 2025 competition.
Available to buy for £20 directly from the GC&DC, the Annual is a celebratory publication and visual reference of the Craftsmanship & Design Awards. This yearly competition, operated by the GC&DC, exists to promote excellence in the jewellery and silversmithing industries.
The Annual also complements the Craftsmanship & Design Awards 2025 Exhibition, currently at The Goldsmiths’ Centre in London. This curated showcase of key winners’ work is free to visit, and runs until September 11th 2025, with items ranging from silverware to diamond mounting, enamelling, 2D hand rendering, and fine jewellery.
A closer look
This year’s Annual features high-quality photography of winners’ work across categories ranging from 2D design to 3D fine jewellery, diamond mounting, enamelling, silversmithing, and lapidary.
Alongside documenting the winners, the annual features articles and stories emerging from the awards, including an exploration into next-generation materials in jewellery, and the evolution of silverware to fit our contemporary lifestyles.
A highlight of this year’s Annual is an in-depth interview with 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gay Penfold, exploring her commitment to education, innovation, and collective progression in the jewellery industry through a career spanning more than 40 years.
When asked how it felt to have received this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Gay confesses to being ‘taken aback’ at first and then ‘overwhelmed’. “To receive such an accolade is a massive honour in itself, but to know that your peers nominated you makes it truly special,” she shares in the Annual.
The 2025 Awards
More than 560 people entered the GC&DC awards in 2025 — almost 20% more than the previous year. At the prestigious awards ceremony, held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London on March 3rd, over 300 guests gathered to celebrate their peers.
Alongside 36 gold awards, there were major and premier award recipients, including Alexandra Raphael, who won the Jacques Cartier Memorial Prize for The Honest Bowl. This exquisite plique-à-jour enamelled design that showcased an exceptional command of colour, composition, and artistry—documented in detail in this year’s Annual.
John Ball, chairman of the GC&DC, says: “The Annual is our final flourish each year to celebrate and spotlight the outstanding talents who have taken part in our awards. We spend several months putting this publication together, capturing the stories and inspiring work emerging from the UK jewellery and silversmithing industries in a beautifully bound book.”
Judith Lockwood, vice-chair of the GC&DC, adds: “It’s a pleasure to sit down and read with a cup of coffee, and many of our community treasure the Annual, collecting them each year for their coffee table. We look forward to sharing the articles and winners featured in the publication through our social media and events in the months ahead.”
The 2025 Awards Annual can be purchased directly from the GC&DC, with UK and international shipping available.
Source: GC&DC