Interdisciplinary. Community. Advocacy. Humor.
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
Started by Rebecca Skeels Oct 11, 2020. 0 Replies 1 Like
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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http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/maker/jo-pond/?utm_source...
Maker of the Week is Jo Pond whose solo show now on at CAA turns relics of everyday urban life into jewellery.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/31/sheffield-steel-cra...
Andy Cole has been forging steel in the same workshop in the Highfield area of Sheffield since he was 14 years old, 40 years ago. The building where he works, a stone’s throw from Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane football ground, is said to be where, in 1913, the metallurgist Harry Brearley made the world’s first stainless steel cutlery.
Cole is one of the city’s surviving “little mesters”, a term used for the craftsmen who rented the city’s redbrick workshops to work with the steel produced in the surrounding areas. He has seen the demise of Sheffield’s steel industry at close quarters. The news this week of Tata Steel’s decision to pull out of all its UK operations came as no surprise to him.
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Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival
Picturehouse Central, London, 4-5 May 2016
The first UK film festival dedicated to craft and making is launched by the Crafts Council and Crafts magazine, is set to be among the highlights of this year’s London Craft Week.
The festival includes a Manga-inspired animation, Star Wars shadow puppetry, a humorous take on the artisanal food movement, and documentaries featuring the likes of Andy Goldsworthy, Sir Terence Conran and Eric Gill.
Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival takes place on the evenings of 4 and 5 May at Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, with a carefully curated programme of different films shown each night.
Following an open call, 36 films have been selected from well over 300 submissions, covering the gamut of styles from animation to satire and from documentaries to surreal art pieces. The common thread being in very different ways, each looks at our relationship with materials and making.
Highlights include award-winning director Liam Saint-Pierre’s documentary following artist and inventor Dominic Wilcox on his quest to transform the mundane into something extraordinary, and Lionel T Dean’s tribute to 1950s Japanese science fiction T-Rex versus The Gorilla: Quest for the Stone. The festival also features the UK premiere of Gill & Gill, which looks at humanity’s relationship with stone through the stories of two masters: rock-climber John Gill and letter cutter Eric Gill.
Other names to look out for in the programme include: glass maker Matt Durran, paper artist Su Blackwell, Studio Swine, and shoe designer Marloes ten Bhomer, and a film featuring the likes of Sir Terence Conran, designer Paul Smith, and architect Amanda Levete.
Picturehouse Central's building is accessible to wheelchair users. All films on Thursday 5 May will be subtitled.
See the full programme and snap up the last remaining tickets (£10/£8 concs) click here to buy tickets now
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