Goldsmiths' Fair filled the City's hallmarking hall for two weeks in 2025 with 136 independent makers, and an exhibition paired David Watkins with Wendy Ramshaw.
Goldsmiths’ Fair brought 136 independent makers to Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London from Tuesday 23 September to Sunday 5 October 2025. It ran as two weeks, with the Monday between them closed.
The Goldsmiths’ Company is one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London. It has tested precious metal since a statute of Edward I set the standard in 1300, and the word hallmark comes from bringing work to this hall to be struck.
The fair has been held in the building since 1983. Every exhibitor makes by hand, with an element of precious metal in every piece, and up to ten bursary places a year go to early-career makers.
In 2025 The Betts Group, a Birmingham Jewellery Quarter firm, gave the bursary recipients four kilograms of AgAIN silver bullion. The silver was reclaimed from medical X-ray films.
Three exhibitions ran beside the stands. A New Vision paired the jewellers David Watkins and Wendy Ramshaw, an artist couple of late twentieth-century jewellery.
Interwoven looked at the meeting of jewellery and textiles. Ella Fearon-Low’s Jewels for the Hall set sculptural installations in the building’s own rooms.