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Growing up in Oxford provided her with inspiration that has developed over 25 years into a theme that draws on buildings as diverse as ancient Greece to contemporary Europe and America.  Some pieces reflect her personal interest in a particular place, while others are based on a building of significance to the client.\r\n\r\nVicki attended a Foundation course in Oxford in 1973, followed by a 3 year jewellery design course at Middlesex Polytechnic with a one semester exchange to the Fachhoch Schule in Schwabisch Gmund, Germany.  After working as a designer for a manufacturing jeweller she was awarded a setting up grant from the Crafts Council with which to set up her own workshop in 1977.  Since then she has exhibited widely and has many pieces in public and private collections including the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, East Midlands Arts, the Royal Scottish Museum and Houston University, Texas.\r\n\r\nHer commissions are many and varied including pieces for the Globe Theatre, Chase Manhatten Bank, Guggenheim Museum (NY), Temple Bar, Emily’s List Awards and Robinson College, Cambridge. Westway Development Trust. 2 Temple Place, a table piece for Hoare’s Bank London, the Prix Pictet presentation pieces presented by Kofi Anan 2008, 2009 and 2014.  \r\n\r\nThis Siena Tower, composed of three interlocking boxes was a collaboration with the silversmith and jeweller, Mary Ann Simmons who made the basic box structures.  Vicky Ambery-Smith who conceived the design applied the architectural details.\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"<i>Siena </i>Campanile tower, silver and polymer resin with glass inserts.  Model tower comprising of three boxes, reducing towards the top, the lowertwo boxes of cubic form, the uppermost rectangular in height and is surmounted by four minarets in each corner and a conical roof of octagonal form.  The roof is topped by a finial and a silver flag.  The box forming the base has one arched  window cut into each side, the middle box has a double arched window below a triple arch window, the uppermost box has three rows of windows of four, five and six srches respectively.  The boxes, minarets and roof are decorated with horizontal bands of black, polymer resin inlaid into the silver surface, in imitation of the dark green marble banding of the walls of Siena Cathedral.  Each of the upper two boxes has an inset flange to secure it in the one below. Black and white are the symbolic colours of Siena. 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