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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Website: http://www.acj.org.uk/
Location: UK
Members: 67
Latest Activity: Oct 11, 2020
is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Founded as a membership association in 1997 and registered as a Limited Company in 2006, it recognises a need to foster discussion, debate and critical review and interaction amongst its members. To this end we organise conferences, lectures, seminars, workshops and an annual general meeting for our members. Our regular newsletter, findings, features reviews, information, comment, book offers and discounts and is of benefit to both our members and the wider public. We also produce a monthly e-bulletin featuring news and opportunities.
We welcome as members practising jewellers, associated designers and crafts people, educators, students, gallery owners and retailers, museum curators, critics and collectors - indeed, anyone with an interest in contemporary jewellery.
The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
PO Box 37807 London SE23 1XJ United Kingdom
Telephone: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4201
Fax: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4452
Email: enquiries@acj.org.uk
WHAT WE DO
• promote greater understanding of contemporary jewellery
• support jewellers’ creative and professional development
• develop audiences for this lively field of contemporary craft and design
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Dear All Members, Followers and Likers of our Network pages.We are currently streamlining our pages at the moment and have found that fewer people are now following and using twitter and crafthaus to find out about jewellery events, exhibitions, opportunities, seeing new work and generally chatting about jewellery.If you use these, please head over to our other pages on other platforms: -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Association.Contemporary.Jewellery/Linkedin Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3628898/Linkedin Business page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-contemporary-jewellery-limitedInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/acj.org.uk/and of course, our main website…Continue
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Part 1: 26 - 29 June (Awards Preview 26 June)
Part 2: 03 - 06 July (Awards Preview 03 July)
New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition, showcasing over 3,000 of the most talented emerging graduates including a large contingent of jewellery and silverware designers.
This year the annual graduate showcase New Designers has programmed a substantial schedule of talks and events,which all all freely accessible on entry with your show ticket.
Some highlights include ABSOLUT Art Talk, a panel discussion including Neville Brody, Stuart Wood and Kitty Joseph; the Design Council Future Pioneers celebration and contributions from the Design Trust, Design Museum, The InnoMatNet Summer School, and the V&A amongst many others.
See full programme:
[w] www.newdesigners.com/talks
Special Ticket Offer Valid until 26 June:
Standard Day Ticket - £9* (£14.50 on the door)
Unlimited Access 2 Week Pass - £19* (£27 on the door)
Book now online quote NDPIN to benefit from the discount or call 08448 480 136.
The spotlight is on the UK’s largest selection of contemporary lighting ever created for a design event. Hundreds of new designs will compete for the coveted Delight in Light National Young Designer Competition, staged for the first time at 100% Design in collaboration with the Lighting Industry Association. All four corners of 100% Design will be illuminated by the UK’s brightest lighting designers as they showcase their ideas.
Click here to find out more on how to enter.
“Having been a judge for the awards for a number of years, it is fantastic to be working with an organisation like 100% Design. Finally these budding young designers will be getting an international platform that can propel them into the media limelight, and a fast track into a sustainable design career. “ Simon Terry, Innovation & Brand Director, Anglepoise
Established in 1985 the Lighting Industry Association Awards have become the premier competition for lighting design students in the UK. ‘Delight in Light’ is a new movement created to encourage excellence in lighting design. This is a mutually beneficial situation for all. Firstly, for the lighting industry, which strives for excellence and the high quality design can provide. Secondly, the designers, through a closer liaison with the industry and exposure at high-profile events and of course thirdly the end users that will enjoy a better quality of lighting in their environment.
‘The Delight in Light’ Design Competition sits firmly at the core of this direction and the LIA aim to provide the perfect platform for many exciting new lighting designs, and offer young people to better understand the industry and interact with it.
http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/page.cfm/action=library/libID=3/l...
The Lewiston-Auburn Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration featuring DIY science and technology, robots, crafts, music, art and local food.
Looking for Makers! Anyone can enter! Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers.
They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.
For more info and to apply to be a Maker : http://makerfairelewistonauburn.com
Deadline to apply is July 19th
The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2012 celebrated its seventh annual show with some 800 makers and 110,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in three years to 500+ makers and 55,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Newcastle (UK), and Tokyo are the home of “featured” Maker Faires (200+ makers), and community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world—including right here in Lewiston-Auburn.
Call for Artists: THE BRITISH ARE COMING
This is a call for Silversmiths who currently reside and practice in the UK to send images of their work/s for consideration to be featured in an online exhibition. The goal is to show the best current contemporary silversmith work from the UK. This exhibition aims to explore if there is a specific British silversmith style that is different from silversmithing styles in other countries.
Future exhibitions are planned to feature other European silversmiths as well.
The work/s submitted must have been made from 2011 onwards.
Image requirements:
5 images max in jpg/jpeg format
72 dpi (low resolution)
How to submit:
Please email the following information to mark@markfenn.co.uk .
- Clearly labeled photos to match the photo information (in other words, if you send 5 images for consideration, we will need to know which image is which from the descriptions) i.e. use your name followed by a number: mark-fenn-001.jpg for photo and listing description.
- title of work
- year made
- captions (material, measurements)
- photo credits (name of photographer)
- your website address
- a short descriptive text from you about the work, 3-4 sentences suffice
Deadlines and Dates:
- Deadline to email images to mark@markfenn.co.uk : on or before September 1, 2013
- Online exhibition date: October 12 - November 12, 2013 on
- no entry fee !
- The online exhibition is public and will remain on the website even after the exhibition is over.
- Crafthaus is used extensively for online research by major US craft organizations, artists and publications. This means great visibility for UK silversmiths in the US/Canadian craft world and internationally.
- Crafthaus membership is NOT required to participate in an online exhibition.
About the curator:
Mark Fenn is a contemporary studio Jeweller and Silversmith with a BA (Hons) degree in Silversmithing, Goldsmithing and Jewellery from UCA.
Mark’s studio work is informed by the narrative and the personal. Mark is an award winning silversmith and a graduate member of Contemporary British Silversmiths. He is also a full member of The Association of Contemporary Jewellery. He is based in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent, UK.
From Autumn 2013 the Goldsmiths’ Centre’s offer for post graduates is changing. Our exciting, new Setting Out programme isn’t a taught programme. We’re helping you the move from college to career by offering brand new studio spaces along with a supporting development programme which will help you gain vital business skills.
The focus will be on YOU to make effective use of your workspace and take up the development opportunities that are right for you with the Centre’s support. The focus will be on YOU to make effective use of your workspace and take up the development opportunities that are right for you.
Setting Out is open to graduates, and those working within the industry.
For an inclusive fee of £50.00 per week you’ll receive:
· Full-time, flexible access to a fantastic shared studio space
· Access to a Knowledge Programme that includes vocational training and/or professional development for a minimum of twenty days per year (to include lectures, seminars, practical sessions and mentoring around your business)
· Access to Goldsmiths’ Centre training and prototyping workshops
· Access to lockable storage
· The opportunity to start your business and make the transition from university to the world of work as part of the Goldsmiths’ Centre Community
· The potential to work towards a higher-level Vocational Qualification through the Goldsmiths’ Centre’s professional training programme.
Application forms are now available on our website http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/professional-training/full-time-co...
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 9am on Monday 22 July 2013.
INTERVIEW DATES: Wednesday 31 July 2013 or Tuesday 6 August 2013
OPEN DAY: The Setting Out Open day will held at the Goldsmiths' Centre on Friday 12 July from 10.00 am. If you would like to attend the open day please email settingout@goldsmiths-centre.org
Kind regards
The Setting Out Team
Marie Marshall
PA to the Director and Office Manager
T + 44 (0)207 566 7655
E marie.marshall@goldsmiths-centre.org
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