CREATIVE designs by an artistic Teesside University student have been handed out to jewellery experts from across the world.

Mark Longworth, second year BA (Hons) graphic design student, created a set of bespoke pieces to highlight the contemporary jewellery collection due to go on permanent display at Mima this autumn in partnership with Teesside University.

Mark’s creations have been individually crafted from materials such as plastic, wood, bubble wrap, foam, leather and cork – with a piece attached to one of 213 individual cards also designed by Mark, displaying details of the forthcoming jewellery gallery.

There are 213 pieces of jewellery in Mima’s collection, which is one of the finest collections of contemporary jewellery in the country. Materials used by Mark reflect the variety of unusual materials some of the jewellery has been created from.

Representatives from mima, Teesside University and Middlesbrough’s first jewellers in residence, Gemma Draper and Janet Hinchliffe McCutcheon, took the cards with Mark’s pieces attached to the Schmuck international contemporary jewellery fair in Munich, Germany, where they were handed out at the event which attracts jewellers and collectors from around the world.

Mark, 30, said: “Each piece can be unthreaded from the card and crafted into a pendant, brooch or even be used to decorate their hair. It’s hoped each recipient will keep the memento and if they travel to Mima in the future to see the jewellery collection, would bring the piece back with them.”

Each card featuring of one Mark’s individual pieces bears the message ‘this is your key to the jewellery gallery’.