Article: City Style: A sense of OCCASION; Jo Ind meets two of the makers from contrasting cultural backgrounds who will be exhibiting at a major jewellery exhibition.

Byline: Jo Ind

Birmingham's rising star in the glittering world of jewellery is Maria Hanson.

Aged 33, Maria teaches at the School of Jewellery and has been short-listed for this year's Jerwood Prize, which is as prestigious to craftspeople as the Turner Prize is to fine artists.

For the Sense of Occasion exhibition, Maria has created a piece called A New Communion.

It is a black board on which are seated 13 chalices, a main cup in the middle and 12 around the edge.

The brief to all those in exhibition was to create a work which ...

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