The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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

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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.

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 October 31, 2015 at 7:51am: We are delighted to be taking our renowned Fakes and Forgeries Seminar to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh on Wednesday 18 November 2015.

The seminar, which coincides with The Company’s exhibition ‘The Silversmith’s Art Made in Britain Today’, gives delegates first-hand experience of how to spot faked or forged items of silverware through lectures from leading silver experts and practical hands-on sessions.

Keynote speaker: Mr Alastair Dickenson, Liveryman of The Goldsmiths’ Company, antique silver dealer and silver expert on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.

This full day includes lunch, a certificate of attendance and the opportunity to visit The Silversmith’s Art: Made in Britain today.

For more information and booking see here
http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/welcome-to-the-assay-office/news/fak...

Wednesday 18 November 2015
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
£65, £60 Museum Members and Concessions

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:39am: Acclaimed jewellery designer, Stephen Webster, is publishing a book about his career. With a foreword by Tracey Emin, Goldstruck: A life shaped by jewellery, traces Webster’s career back to his days as a student on a jewellery-making course at his local college in Rochester, Kent. It is full of anecdotes and memories, as well as insights into his inspiration and influences, and pictures of many of his pieces.

The book will be available to buy on Amazon from 17th November 2015. Please click here for details. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0956873847/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:37am: Trading Standards Hallmarking Training Day

Date: Monday 16th November at Goldsmiths’ Hall

Cost: £48 inc. VAT per person, by reservation only (subsidised by the Assay Office)

We are running a specialist Hallmarking Training day for those who are interested in the role of Trading Standards in the legalities of hallmarking in the UK.

The day includes:

• Assay Office talk on The Hallmarking Act 1973
• Trading Standards talk on practicalities and enforcement, and the Touchstone Award
• Lunch with wine
• Tour of the Assay Office
• Hands-on session - try hallmarking and learn how to spot fakes and forgeries.

Places are limited. To book, please contact Alison Byne on 020 7606 8971

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:34am: http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a47fc1f38d7b79f55813e2e48&i...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:32am: CALL FOR ENTRIES - THE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT FESTIVAL 2016

Description

Applications are invited for one of the UK's largest and best loved craft events. Open to makers from across the UK and Ireland working to the highest standards in ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, metal, wood, plastics, mixed media, leather, recycled materials and paper.

The Festival will see 200 diverse and talented makers of contemporary craft selling directly to up to 10,000 members of the public and includes Start UP, (formerly One Year On), a specially designed area for businesses in the early stages of their career.

How to Apply

Online Applications Only. Please visit http://www.craftsatboveytracey.co.uk/ for full criteria. Deadline to apply 30 November 2015

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:30am: 04 December
Visual Arts Residencies 2016
In 2016 Cove Park will award a minimum of three funded Visual Arts Residencies, of between one to three months each, for individual national and international artists. Artists at any stage in their professional careers are welcome to apply to this programme. Our One-to-One programme (of one and two-week residencies for visual artists working collaboratively with another visual artist, with an artist working in another art form, a curator or a writer) will continue in 2016 and we will offer one residency in this strand. In addition, and with the support of the Bridge Awards, Cove Park will offer a two-week residency for an emerging visual artist based in Scotland. These residencies will all take place during May to September 2016.

Previous visual arts residents include: Sara Barker, Tyler Coburn, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Lauren Printy Currie, Kate Davis, Mariana Castillo Deball, Chris Evans, Ruth Ewan, Sarah Forrest, Luke Fowler, Alex Frost, Michael Fullerton, Maria Fusco, Will Holder, Quinn Latimer, Toby Paterson, Elizabeth Price, Margaret Salmon, Polly Staple, Simon Starling, Stephen Sutcliffe, Cara Tolmie, Alison Turnbull, Jan Verwoert

Application Guidelines are available to download here. The deadline for all visual arts applications is Friday 4 December 2015. http://covepark.org/apply-or-book?utm_source=Master+List&utm_ca...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:26am

SOFA Chicago taking place from 5 to 8 November and Directory makers Melanie Muir, Kelly Munro andJonathan Boyd will be there with Craft Scotland.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:18am: London-based Lynne MacLachlan combines technology with the artistic process of jewellery design. Her 3D printed pieces make use of light, shape, and colour as avenues of experimentation and blur the boundaries between art, fashion, technology, and design.
http://blog.okmylo.com/interviews/lynne-maclachlan-interview-2/?utm...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:16am: About

Award winning jewellery artist Zoe Robertson is a practice based researcher at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. Her current studio practice explores the notion of Jewellery and Performance, in which the relationship between the object, the body and space is explored.

An open-minded approach to challenging the boundaries of jewellery coupled with an intuitive relationship with materials is the driving force and motivation behind her work.

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/maker/zoe-robertson/?utm_...