Claire Mooney, Silver Spinner

In 2023, Claire Mooney from Newry, Northern Ireland trained in silver spinning with Sheffield- based Warren Martin. Silver spinning is the process of shaping a flat silver disk into a hollow item on a lathe, shaping it over a former known as a ‘spinning chuck’. It is a critically endangered craft on Heritage Crafts’ Red List of Endangered Crafts with fewer than 15 practitioners in the UK. Claire used her new skills to offer one-off and production work to silversmiths across the UK and Ireland.