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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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

The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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streamlining our pages

Started by Rebecca Skeels Oct 11, 2020. 0 Replies

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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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 25, 2015 at 2:53am
One of the requirements of the Hallmarking Act 1973 is that all dealers supplying precious metal jewellery shall display a notice explaining the approved hallmarks.

This must be the notice produced by the British Hallmarking Council, as shown right featuring date letters 2015 - 2024.

Any previous versions of this notice will need to be replaced with this latest version.

How to get your Hallmarking Dealers' Notice

• Downloadable PDF. This must printed out in black and white (minimum 300dpi, A4 size) and clearly displayed on your premises.

• Hard copy, at a cost of £10.00 each including VAT from Goldsmiths' Hall, or £15 if posted. For more information email info@assayofficelondon.co.uk

http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/media/3500492/dealers_notice_2015.pdf
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 23, 2015 at 12:32pm



Dear Rebecca,
 
We would like to remind you that there’s only one  more week for your students to apply for the 2015 Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise.

By submitting an application, they are in with a chance of winning:

— £10,000 start-up capital.
— 12 months business mentoring.
— Small business training.
— Access to new networks and audiences.
— Deutsche Bank endorsement.
— A fast track to success.
 
Take a look at why they should apply here.

Five prizes are offered in five broad categories that the business plan can fit into:

— Fine Art
— Design
— Film and Photography
— Music
— Performance

Their application should consist of a business plan for a project or enterprise that they wish to pursue. The plan should support the applicant’s long-term career goals.

We’re looking for originality, feasibility, clarity and conciseness… and for it to be financially sound.

But it’s worth reminding your students that impressions count; make our judges want to read their business plans!

Check here to see if your college / university has already registered. If not, you’ll need to do so in order for them to apply. It’s free and easy, and takes no longer than a minute.

Once you have done so, then please do encourage them to submit an application by forwarding this link: Click here to access the guidelines and application form
Deadline: 17.00, 31 March 2015.

And don’t forget to check out the resources on our website, including the questions and answers from this year’s #DBACE Live session.
 
If you have any questions, then please do not hesitate to contact me on the email below.

Many thanks, regard and best wishes
 
John Kundu
The DBACE 2015 Team
info@dbace.uk.com
 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 23, 2015 at 12:29pm


 
SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT
 
We would be grateful if colleagues can forward through appropriate notice boards, peer networks and associates; with full apologies for the receipt of cross-posts.

MAKING FUTURES
CRAFT AND THE (RE)TURN OF THE MAKER IN A POST-GLOBAL SUSTAINABLY AWARE SOCIETY
 
WEBSITE AT: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
 
Making Futures will be held on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th September 2015 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon, UK.
 
The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is open and the closing date for receipt is 18th May 2015. Building on the success of its three previous editions, Making Futures invites proposals for papers and presentations that address the main conference topic, thematic fields and workshops. Making Futures seeks to be broad and inclusive, and invites a diverse range of response, from artists, craftspeople, designer-makers, Fab Lab and maker-movement enthusiasts, campaigners and activists, curators, historians and theorists.
 
ON-LINE REGISTRATION OPEN: registration is open with an ‘early bird’ offer on two-day conference tickets until the 17th May 2015.
 
CONFERENCE AIMS: Making Futures investigates what it means ‘to make’ and its future significations - personally, collectively, artistically, economically, politically… Its impact on sustainable agendas, its subversion of mass consumption, its relation to new technologies, its contribution to community and 'place-making', and to the possibilities of new political economies…
 
Embracing contemporary craft and making as instances of thought in action and convinced of their transformative potential at individual and social levels, Making Futures envisages the “(re)turn of the maker” as a project capable of generating new progressive possibilities, and of contributing to new social and economic futures.
 
THEMATIC FIELDS: proposals might address one of six themes:
Lifecycles of Material Worlds (Sustainability in Practice)
Craft in an Expanded Field
Critical Perspectives on Producers & Consumers
Translations Across Local-Global Divides
Materials & Processes of Making
Making Thinking (Crafting Education)
WORKSHOPS: the call also requests proposals to three workshops:
Digital Crafting – Defining the Field in collaboration with the School of Materials, The Royal College of Art.
A Western Jugaad? Makers & Frugal Innovation in collaboration with the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Fab Lab Barcelona.
Place-Making-Space: tools and methods for ‘crafting communities’ and ‘making places’ in the post-global era in collaboration with the Community21 Sustainable Design Research Group at the University of Brighton.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION FORMATS:
Practice-led presentations and case studies: projects that engage the conference themes, and which might typically connect to practitioners, processes, products, projects, enterprises, collectives, institutions, agencies, ideas and allied movements, campaigns, initiatives, and curatorial practices and strategies.
Historical and theoretical papers: rooted in examinations of the broader contextual formations and critical discourses connected to the conference programme. To include perspectives derived from historical, technological, social-cultural, philosophical aesthetic, anthropological, and/or political and economic models of enquiry

FOR FULL DETAILS PLEASE VISIT WEBSITE AT:
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 23, 2015 at 4:46am

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 23, 2015 at 4:27am

The Colour Group (Great Britain) is proud to announce that the Turner Medal 2015 will be awarded to the Kinetic-Optic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez

Since 1941, stemming from the Physical Society, The Colour Group’s mission is to promote the study of colour and to assist the dissemination of colour knowledge in all its aspects.

Every two years, alternating with the Newton Medal rewarding scientific contributions, the Colour Group presents the Turner Medal to a distinguished artist in recognition of their outstanding contribution towards understanding colour in the Visual arts. This year, the Colour Group is honoured to present the Tuner Medal to Carlos Cruz-Diez.

Carlos Cruz-Diez with his Physichromie 500 at the exhibition “Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection”, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014

Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923)

Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has lived and worked in Paris since 1960. He is one of the great figures of kinetic-optic art. He is a contemporary theorist of color whose artistic proposal is based on four chromatic conditions: subtractive, additive, inductive and reflected condition. His research has brought art a new way of understanding the phenomenon of colour, greatly expanding its perceptual universe.

Cruz-Diez’s work revolves around color conceived as an autonomous reality, devoid of anecdotes, progressing in space and real time without past or future, in the perpetual present. In his works the colour appears as a reality that can exist without the help of form and even stand unaided.

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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 22, 2015 at 1:42pm
Research Bursaries

The Wellcome Trust has recently announced details of a new research funding scheme. Research Bursaries are available for small and medium-scale research projects based on library or archive collections supported by the Trust. Projects must focus either on Wellcome Library holdings or on any collection supported by a previous Wellcome Trust Research Resources grant.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/index.htm
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 22, 2015 at 1:35pm
This year festival of crafts is taking place Sat 17 & Sun 18 October 2015

festival of crafts is now in its nineteenth year and 2015 promises to be the best yet, with a curated marketplace, DIY workshops, and activities across the town.

We are looking for applications from makers working in a variety of disciplines, including new and traditional craft techniques, producing work with a modern design aesthetic. festival of crafts is a weekend long celebration of all things handmade; championing great design, the process of making, and the joys of up-cycling. The marketplace will showcase over 70 designer makers and products with a lifestyle focus, including (but not limited to): homewares, jewellery, ceramics, stationery, accessories, furniture, lighting, textiles and print.

The show offers opportunities to well established craft practitioners as well as first time exhibitors and graduates (special graduate rates available). As we receive more applications than we can accept the selection process aims to offer visitors an eclectic mix of contemporary craft from innovative makers. Please take a look at the selection criteria below for more details.

Why exhibit at Farnham Maltings?
The Maltings is an historic 18th century brewery comprising beautiful beamed rooms across which the show takes place. On a day to day basis the collection of buildings hosts a range of studios including printers and picture framers together with 6 resident theatre and dance companies who produce and tour work regionally, nationally and internationally. We offer a varied programme including theatre, cinema, craft, music, workshops and more.
We are a small but friendly team curating a craft festival programme comprising unravel… a festival of knitting, thread… a festival of textiles and festival of crafts attracting an annual audience of over 6,000 visitors including craft enthusiasts, art students, stylish shoppers, DIY-ers, and indie bloggers.

Selection is made based on the following considerations:
How your items fit in with our vision of festival of crafts; contemporary lifestyle craft with a modern design aesthetic, designed or made by the exhibitor, i.e. if your items are made by hand, or if some of your designs are produced/manufactured elsewhere
How your items are represented in your photos/website
The overall cohesiveness and consistency of your work
If the range of work falls into more than one category, then the organiser reserves the right to specify that only one part of the range is eligible for display
If your work falls more into the categories of High End Craft or Fine Art, Fair Trade Goods or Vintage
If a shared application, the relevance and standard of each individual; neither or both would be selected
If a returning exhibitor, how your work has progressed since participating in or applying to past festivals. We’re looking to see whether or not you’ve produced new items or designs, so we can keep the festival fresh and exciting year in and year out for shoppers
How your work fits in with the range of disciplines and our need to diversify the crafts available at festival of crafts
To apply for a stand at festival of crafts please complete and return the attached application form by Thursday 2nd April 2015 to Emily Phillips by either email: emily.phillips @farnhammaltings.com or by post to: festival of crafts, Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7QR

If you have questions please do not hesitate to get in contact,

Look forward to hearing from you,

Kind Regards,

Emily

Emily Phillips
Craft Events Intern
Farnham Maltings | Bridge Square | Farnham | Surrey | GU9 7QR
t: 01252 745425 (direct line)
e: emily.phillips@farnhammaltings.com
w: craft.farnhammaltings.com
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 22, 2015 at 1:32pm
We hope you will join us for this exciting Art and Science event!
Tickets are going fast, so register today at cynthia@mainecenterforcreatiivty.org


Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Art and Science of Creativity : An Evening with Dr. Edison T. Liu
Hannaford Hall, USM Abromson Center, Portland Campus
5:30pm-7:30pm (50 minute program followed by networking and reception)

Edison T. Liu, M.D., President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, will track through music and lecture, the commonality between art and science and how human beings are hardwired to create. Using piano pieces to underscore his points, he will discuss how both art and science find comfort in patterns and define how to create something from nothing. Part piano recital and part lecture, this event will both entertain and enlighten, showing how creativity and innovation in art and science has impact on all our lives. This is a fundraiser for the Maine Center for Creativity.

Special thanks to our sponsors CBRE / The Boulos Company, UNUM, Artel-usa.com, Rinck Advertising, Acadia Trust, Systems Engineering, SMRT, TK &A , Brainstorm, Morgan Stanley, Maine Magazine and MaineBiz


Space is limited! Tickets are $35 each and corporate sponsorships are available. Students with ID are FREE.
Contact cynthia@mainecenterforcreativity.org to register today or call Jean at 207-730-0694.
https://www.mainecenterforcreatiivty.org
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 22, 2015 at 1:24pm
Crafts Council Directory - Be a Part at the Start

The Crafts Council Directory is building, with some of the brightest and best names in craft already signed up. To be a part of the first wave, launching live at the end of March, join now and take advantage of the Early Bird Offer.

The full Directory launches in May, promoting you and your work to Crafts Council audiences worldwide. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to increase your profile and be part of the biggest directory of UK makers.

Join now for a year for just £36, saving £12 on the standard rate of £48.

This offer ends on Monday 23rd March. You can find all you need to know by creating a Crafts Council website account and a Directory link will appear. But if you’d like more support to start your profile, give us a call on 020 7806 2509.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 22, 2015 at 1:22pm


MEXICAN WEEK
Colourful and spicy, this week focuses on inspiration from Mexican culture, both traditional and contemporary, with a mix of tutors who are either native to Mexico or whose working practise is influenced by Mexican aesthetics.

Click on the links below for more information and to book.


Painting in egg tempera: make vibrant pigments and explore techniques
MAZ JACKSON
October 18–23 Five Days £571
Suitable for all 5D5675

Painting inspired by Mexico: dreams and miracles
CHRISTOPHER CORR
October 18–23 Five Days £520
Suitable for all 5D5676

Experimental printmaking
DEMIÁN FLORES
October 18–23 Five Days £569
Intermediate 5D5677

Inspired by Mexico – make resin jewellery
SOPHIE SIMONE CORTINA
October 18–23 Five Days £564
Suitable for all 5D5678

Make papier-mâché boxes, masks and figures
BORIS SPIDER
October 18–23 Five Days £559
Suitable for all 5D5679

Freeform pattern cutting and garment making with Mexican panache
CARMEN RION
October 18–23 Five Days £539
Intermediate 5D5680
Chris Corr

Vibrant silk painting – inspired by Mexico
HILARY SIMON
October 18–23 Five Days £539
Suitable for all 5D5681

Mexican appliqué art textiles and crafts
KATINA RIBA
October 18–23 Five Days £539
Suitable for all 5D5682

https://www.westdean.org.uk/CollegeChannel/ShortCourses/MexicanWeek...

 

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