Alex Kinsley Vey
From Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Kinsley Vey received his early jewellery training from his parents. Alex attended George Brown College in Toronto, graduating in 2013, and completed his MA in Jewellery & Metal at the Royal College of Art in London in 2025.
He was a finalist for the Enjoia’t Contemporary Jewellery Awards in 2022, the recipient of the JORGC Award for Jewellery Design in Barcelona in 2023, and in 2025 he was the recipient of the Graham Hughes Award from the Royal College of Art.
Alex is currently based in Toronto, where maintains a teaching practice at OCAD University, alongside his artistic practice.
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My practice uses jewellery to trace how memory and habit take material form within working-class life. I work with steel, rust, and industrial residue; materials that carry time visibly, where surface and structure become records of use, loss, and transformation. Influenced by ideas of reflective nostalgia and hauntology, I avoid idealized returns to the past and instead work with fragmentation and unresolved states. Jewellery is worn, touched, and carried on the body, making it an intimate space where materials and memories change over time rather than staying fixed.
He was a finalist for the Enjoia’t Contemporary Jewellery Awards in 2022, the recipient of the JORGC Award for Jewellery Design in Barcelona in 2023, and in 2025 he was the recipient of the Graham Hughes Award from the Royal College of Art.
Alex is currently based in Toronto, where maintains a teaching practice at OCAD University, alongside his artistic practice.
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My practice uses jewellery to trace how memory and habit take material form within working-class life. I work with steel, rust, and industrial residue; materials that carry time visibly, where surface and structure become records of use, loss, and transformation. Influenced by ideas of reflective nostalgia and hauntology, I avoid idealized returns to the past and instead work with fragmentation and unresolved states. Jewellery is worn, touched, and carried on the body, making it an intimate space where materials and memories change over time rather than staying fixed.