David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics.London 2012: Olympic medals go into production in Wales. BBC News, 27 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011. Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.London 2012 Olympics: medal designs unveiled. The Telegraph, 27 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011. Archive here.
Life Watkins was born in Wolverhampton in 1940 and he is a graduate of the University of Reading (1963 Fine Arts) where he met his lifelong partner Wendy Ramshaw.
Ramshaw is a Royal Designer for Industry and he has produced work for the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.Wolverhampton designer wins contract for Olympic medals. Express & Star, 28 July 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C960/74) with Watkins in 2006 for its Crafts Lives collection held by the British Library.Watkins, David (1 of 3) National Life Stories Collection: Crafts Lives, British Library Board: 2006. Retrieved 20 February 2018 In 2009 Graham Hughes wrote a joint biography of Watkins and his wife and fellow designer Wendy Ramshaw.
In 2010 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, titled Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972–2010).Artist in Jewellery by David Watkins. Dezeen Magazine, 22 February 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2011. Archived here.
Selected publications David Watkins encounters. Barcelona: Sd-edicions-Hipòtesi joies, 2004. (With Barbara Cartlidge & Mònica Gaspar)
Further reading
David Watkins, Wendy Ramshaw: A Life’s Partnership
References
Further reading Chadour-Sampson, Beatriz. David Watkins, Artist in Jewellery. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2008.