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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
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 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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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 8, 2016 at 9:51am
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I AM HEREBracelet, Brian Glassar, 1975. Crafts Council Collection: J78. Photo: Todd White - Art PhotographyPortable art, wearable objects; author jewellery from 1970I AM HERE looks at author jewellery across five decades and reflects the complex and challenging nature of making objects that have a relationship with the human form. The exhibition showcases significant jewellers held in the Crafts Council Collection, eg Wendy Ramshaw, Caroline Broadhead, David Watkins and David Poston, loans from key national and international lenders, including MIMA and Galerie Marzee, new commissions, and voices and views from a range of individuals from across the sector09 Apr - 04 Jun 2016LocationThe Civic, BarnsleyTicketsFree
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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.
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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
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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P/T Foundry and Metal Technician at City & Guilds of London Art School
The Art School is seeking to appoint a Foundry and Metal Technician, 2 days a week during UG term time to work alongside our Metal Fabrication technician and to join our technical team.
https://www.a-n.co.uk/jobs/pt-foundry-and-metal-technician-at-city-...
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https://static.a-n.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Guidance_on_fee...
Guidance to day rates.... Remember it's a start point and it's worth spending some time on!
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Make Your Mark 2016 Dates Confirmed!
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Image: Dr Robert Organ and Alison Byne at 2015 Make Your Mark.
This year Make Your Mark moves from springtime to November.
The leading event for apprentices and students on a precious metal related course will take place over two days, Tuesday 1 – Wednesday 2 November at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
We will have an exciting line up for attendees including a free hallmark registration package, celebrity guest speakers, careers expertise, hallmarking guidance, demos and offers, along with services, suppliers and organisations.
In addition, this year we are very proud to launch our Make Your Mark competition. Awards will be given to the students whose design of a precious metal article incorporates the hallmark most artistically.
More details to follow...!
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Fabulous Alison
Spotlight: Meet the Team - Alison Byne
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Image: Alison at Goldsmiths' Hall
Many of our customers will have attended our events - the brains behind them is Alison who is not only our Events Co-ordinator but also Assistant to the Deputy Warden.
How long have you been working at the Assay Office?
I have worked at the Assay Office for nine years but have been with the Goldsmiths’ Company since 1999.
Describe a typical working day.
My day starts with me wading through my emails with a nice cup of coffee. Then, depending on what’s on, I can be running around setting up rooms for seminars and greeting delegates, or meeting with our fantastic maintenance team who look after our rooms and equipment needs, or discussing menus with catering, and of course, most importantly looking after the Boss, Robert Organ, Deputy Warden!
What’s your favourite part of the working day?
That point at the end of the day when I know I’ve done everything I needed to do.
What is your favourite metal and why?
I love gold, proper gold. It’s warm in colour, suits my skin tone and is very ‘now’!
What’s the best thing about working at the LAO?
There is no other place like it. We are lucky to have a great working environment and our building is one of London’s hidden treasures.
What is your top tip for customers who are sending in items for hallmarking?
Make sure you complete the hallnote fully. Give us as much information as possible – diagrams are great - and if you have a very specific request make sure you give us a contact number so that we can call you if necessary.
What’s the weirdest piece you’ve ever had to hallmark?
Not me personally as I don't apply the marks, but the team did once have some beautifully crafted silver adult ‘toys’ in for hallmarking.
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Link up everyone. Thank you goldsmiths centre
http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/about-the-centre/become-a-member/
This spring we're launching our new network, Link at the Goldsmiths' Centre, for the industry and design community. Become a member today and hear first about what's on, get priority tickets and receive exclusive benefits - from preview invites to discounts in our café, Bench.
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http://www.craftanddesign.net/blog/
Congratulations to our 2016 Finalists!
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Posted on 1 April 2016 by Angie Boyer
Thank you so much to the thousands of people who voted online in our 2016 craft&design Selected Maker Awards, you did a grand job in supporting our brilliant Selected Makers! And thank you as well to all the designer makers who participated – we’re only sorry that you couldn’t all be shortlisted!
Here are this year’s Finalists, listed alphabetically by the first letter of their name. Soon the Specialist Judges will be taking over and making their decisions – so keep an eye on our website, Facebook and Twitter pages, we’ll be announcing our Gold and Silver Winners in early May, along with our 2016 Selected Maker of the Year!
Ceramics: Angela Mellor, Carolyn Genders, Diana Tonnison, James Faulkner, Paul Jessop and Steve Booton
Glass: Catriona MacKenzie, Hayley Gammon, Laura Hart, Rachel Elliott, Sue Burne and Verity Pulford
Jewellery & Precious Metals: A Wolf and I, Cathy Timbrell, Katy Luxton, Kerry Newth, Phil Barnes and Robyn Cove
Specialist Media: Clare Lindley, Hannah Lobley, Jennifer Collier, Kate Bowles, Mary Crabb and Simon Keeley
Textiles & Needlecrafts: Donna Cheshire, Fleur Andreas, Louise West, Moy Mackay, Sally Harper-Kenn and Sarah Waters
Wood & Metal: Fleur Grenier, Richard Barlow, Richard Kennedy, Sally Burnett, Sian Elizabeth Evans and Timothy Hawkins
Congratulations to all our Finalists – and good luck everyone in the next stage of judging!
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