Inaki Meli Arambarri

Biography

April 5, 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1994--Entered the field of silversmithing. My first years were self taught, later working as a designer and craftsman for prestigious firms in Buenos Aires, at the same time studying traditional and native techiniques of fabrication.

1997--Studied at the School of Contemporary Jewelry (S.U.R.J.A.)
1998--Studied under master silversmith, Isaac Vain.
1999--Traveled to Europe for the first time, in search of new knowledge and techniques, visiting Great Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and Spain.
2000--Worked in different design studios in Buenos Aires.
2001--Traveled to the Canary Islands and worked in graphic arts and commercial design.
2001--Opened a design and production workshop in the Canary Islands.

Objectives:

To produce silverware as a method of expression and a union of reason and feeling.

Years of development as a musician and as an agricultural worker gave me a vision of basic forms and an appreciation of nature.

The end result of my objectives is to use the knowledge which is the culmination of all my years of labor--intellectual as well as spiritual--in producing novel forms of urban and contemporary silver articles.

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