The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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 May 16, 2016 at 4:47am

Don't miss this inspiring day out:

Workshops
Demonstrations
Entertainment
Book Now and Save! http://www.craftinfocus.com/cde_tickets_2016/cde_tickets.html

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:46am

Summer Craft Collection now open

 

This summer season the New Ashgate Gallery has chosen a wonderful and diverse collection of ceramics, textiles, jewellery and wood.  The exhibition presents both established and emerging artists which include: Kirsty Adams, Adele Brereton, Lucy Burley, Ekta Kaul, Diana Greenwood, Rachel Jones, Jan Lewin-Cadogan, Sian Patterson, Emily Thatcher, Morrison Thomas and Ali Tomlin.

Emily Thatcher, Clawed Triad Ring, Silver with Tourmalated Quartz

 

Jan Lewin-Cadogan, Turning Tides Bowl, Stoneware

 

We hope to see you in the gallery soon

 

Kind regards

Outi, alison & Loucia

 

New Ashgate Gallery

Waggon Yard, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7PS

Email: gallery@newashgate.org.uk 

Tel: 01252 713208

 

Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm

Registered Charitable Trust No. 274326

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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:45am
Nikki Couppee: Hologems
May 11 – June 19, 2016
 
Artist’s Reception: Friday, May 13, 2016, 6-8pm
Nikki Couppee’s recent work talks about the different functions jewelry performs in society. Objects of personal adornment have the ability to define a person’s social statues, serve as a redeemable investment and perform on a psychological level. Working with everyday materials like Plexiglass, brass, and found objects in place of precious gems and metals she intuitively creates her own versions of gemstones, hand cast and faceted in luminescent plastics. In the series Hologems, Couppee combines holographic and synthetic materials with resins, creating fantastical frozen corsage brooches, lustrous, glow-in-the-dark gems, and collaged ornaments that are at once over-the-top and elegant. The work is further inspired by growing up on the beach in Florida, the 90’s, Crown Jewels, and costume jewelry
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:38am

Object of Desire

“She has managed to bottle notions surrounding art, and indeed craft’s, restorative powers”

David Sinclair, Exhibitions Curator at The Civic, talks about Laura Potter’s bottled silver sheep, this month’s Object of Desire from the Crafts Council Collections.

The work is part of Crafts Council touring exhibition, I AM HERE, currently showing at The Civic, Barnsley until 4 June 2016.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/how-to-make-a-commercial-p...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:36am

The power of craft collections

Our collections excite, inspire and inform. They are seen and experienced by hundreds of thousands of people every year at museums, galleries and online.

We have created a short new film showing how we work with others to bring these collections to life and share the power of craft with people across the UK.

The film also looks at our recent First Decade project which, thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, meant we have been able to enrich our understanding of these collections.
http://collections.craftscouncil.org.uk/home?utm_source=Master+List...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:32am

We would like to invite you our annual Festival of Stuff which runs from Tuesday 21st to Saturday 25th June. Throughout the week there will be bookable masterclasses, leading up to a one day open-house, drop-in, street festival with a whole host of curious things to get stuck in making and doing.

Public Open Day
Date: Saturday 25th June, 2016.
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Institute of Making, Malet Place, UCL, London, WC1E 7JE Map
It's free, no need to book, just drop in from 1pm. Gates close at 5pm.

Masterclasses

Booking for all masterclasses will open on
Monday 23rd May at 20:00hr (8pm)

Tuesday 21st June:
10:00 - 12:30 Wooden Whistle Masterclass
10:00 - 12:30 Morning - Felt Ball and 3D Hand Embroidery Masterclass
10:00 - 12:30 Morning - Chair Caning Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Dustpan and Brush Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon - Felt Ball and 3D Hand Embroidery Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon - Chair Caning Masterclass

Wednesday 22nd June:
10:00 - 16:00 Laminate Wood Forming Masterclass
10:00 - 12:30 Morning - Experimental Fabric Colouring Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon - Experimental Fabric Colouring Masterclass
18:30 - 20:00 Performing Matter - Greatest Hits and New Findings

Thursday 23rd June:
10:00 - 11:30 Morning - Fish Printing Masterclass
10:00 - 12:30 Morning - Experimental Pewter Casting Masterclass
10:00 - 12:30 Morning - Plant Moisture Sensor Masterclass
14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon - Fish Printing Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon - Experimental Pewter Casting Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon - Plant Moisture Sensor Masterclass

Friday 24th June:
10:00 - 12:30 Morning - Concrete Masterclass
10:00 - 12:30 Sensors Masterclass
14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon - Concrete Masterclass

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:30am

http://klimt02.net/events/open-calls/internship-positions-2016-17-k...
We offer different positions depending on the candidate's skills and profile.
Work at Klimt02 isn’t a “bench work” and most of the time will be spent in front of a computer / thinking. For this role it is very important to be aware of what is currently happening in the jewellery field, how the industry works but also it’s a theoretical work. We work with databases, contact artists, discuss new ways of publication...

Department directors of the schools are welcome to contact us in order to establish an official and regular agreement.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:24am

https://vimeo.com/165133678?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign...
Take one workshop full of junk and a Frenchman with an eye for detail (not to mention an obsession with bugs) and you will find the most eclectic mix of metal insects this side of a sci-fi novel. This short documentary follows Edouard Martinet's patient and extraordinary process as he creates sculptures that are utterly beautiful, distinctly creepy and somehow completely true to nature. All this despite his medium being piles of bent metal and old rusty bicycles.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:22am

Designers are losing the understanding of the nature and potential of materials gained from creating things by hand, according to Apple's Jonathan Ive.

The chief design officer at Apple said that designers in all fields appear to be less interested in the handmade.

"Surprisingly fewer and fewer designers, regardless of their particular design discipline, seem to be interested in the detail of how something is actually made," said the British designer.

"With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think – very importantly – its potential." http://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/03/fewer-designers-interested-in-how-...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 16, 2016 at 4:20am
Are computers killing off craft? Not a chance
Grayson Perry
 

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