Drummond Masterton

Head of Sustainable Product Design

Drummond trained as a 3D designer, at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen and at postgraduate level at the Royal College of Art in London. His digitally designed and manufactured craft pieces have been selected for a number of major European and UK exhibitions, including Languages, 2006; Jerwood Contemporary Makers, 2008; Matter1, Dovecott, 2010; Labcraft, Crafts Council, 2010-12, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London 2009-13. His work is represented by the Wills Lane Gallery in St Ives. He also has several key pieces of work in national collections, including the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Crafts Council, London, Shipley Museum, Tyne and Wear, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire.

External websites

Email	drummond.masterton@falmouth.ac.uk
Telephone	01326 370489 (ext 1489)

Qualifications

Year	Qualification	Awarding body
2000	MA by project, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery	Royal College of Art, London
1998	BA (Hons) Design and Craft (First Class)	Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Honours and awards

Year	Description
2013	Winner of the Artfund, awarded by the Crafts Council
2012	Winner of the Friends of Aberdeen Silver Commission
2011	Shortlisted for the design of the Olympic and Paralympic Medals for the 2012 Games
2008	Shortlisted for National Metalwork Design Award, Sheffield
2008	Selected for Jerwood Contemporary Makers
2007	Selected as one of five craft practitioners for the largest AHRC funded project in the crafts, 'Past Present and Future Craft Practice', University of Dundee
2005	Shortlisted for National Collecting Scheme for Scotland
2003	Contemporary Art Society, piece purchased for collection
2000	Deutsche Bank, 'Pyramid Award for Art', winner
1999	Royal Mint, open medal category, winner

Research Interests

Research centre and group affiliations

Autonomatic

Research topics

Digital Making
Rapid Prototyping
Metal Work
Craft/crafting
Cnc Milling
3d Cad

Research Outputs

Publications and research outputs

Conference or Workshop Item

Masterton, Drummond (2016) Make:Shift, Crafts Council Conference, 2016. In: Make:Shift, November 10th - 11th 2016, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK.

Masterton, Drummond (2015) Making the Future. In: Exploiting Digital, July 17th 2015, Falmouth University, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, UK..

Masterton, Drummond and Andrews, Simon (2015) Innovation across the design curriculum: Embedding sustainable design. In: Envisioning sustainable design and eco-design in Welsh universities, 17th April 2015, Pierhead, c/o The National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales.

Masterton, Drummond (2013) Mindful Digital Practice. In: The World Beyond The Things, 12th - 14th March, 2014, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg - Klarissenplatz - 90402 Nürnberg.

Masterton, Drummond (2007) Deconstructing the Digital. In: New Craft Future Voices, 4 July 2007, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.

Artwork

Masterton, Drummond (2019) Near Net Fab: Establishing a method to produce silver artifacts at scale from digitally designed data using 3D printing and CNC milling. [Artwork] (Unpublished)

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Masterton, Drummond (2015) DPA. [Artwork]

Masterton, Drummond (2015) Unobtainium. [Artwork]

Masterton, Drummond (2013) Grand Galibier. [Artwork]

Masterton, Drummond (2012) Etive. [Artwork] Item availability may be restricted.

Masterton, Drummond (2012) KOM. [Artwork]

Masterton, Drummond (2009) Campionissimo. [Artwork]

Exhibition

Masterton, Drummond (2010) 5D- Space Filling Polyhedra. [Exhibition] Item not available from this repository.

Masterton, Drummond (2007) Star Tessellation. [Exhibition]

Masterton, Drummond (2005) Terrain cup. [Exhibition]

Design

Masterton, Drummond (2016) The World in our Hands. [Design] Item availability may be restricted.

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Teaching

Areas of teaching

3D Design
Sustainable Product Design
Goldsmithing
Silversmithing
Metalwork
Jewellery

Courses taught

BA(Hons) Sustainable Product Design

Professional engagement

Independent professional practice

Work in Collections
Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Telford, 2013
Dundee University Collection, Dundee, 2013
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2012
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, 2012
Crafts Council, London, 2011
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2009
Permanent work on display at the Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, 2009 - present
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 2005
Houses of Parliament metalwork collection, London, 2004

Related courses

Course

Sustainable Product Design BA(Hons)

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