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
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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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An exhibition exploring new ways of working, sharing and collaborating
Build Your Own is at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery from 3 October 2015 to 3 January 2016.
New times call for new skills but the old ones have an important role too. Build Your Own explores how digital technologies can come together with traditional processes of production and what democratisation of tools will mean for the future.
Build Your Own features four newly commissioned projects by Will Shannon andAssemble, Linda Brothwell, Rachel Rayns and Raspberry Pi with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and DoES Liverpool and e-NABLE and an inclusive public programme.
Artist Will Shannon and architecture collective Assemble’s new commissionHomework explores living spaces as platforms for experimentation, production and learning. Homework transformed an ordinary house into a series of workshop spaces for domestic making. Community concrete casting workshops were held in the backyard of 48 Cairns Street in Liverpool in the run up to Build Your Own at FACT earlier in the year, with the casting workstation itself installed in the exhibtion.
For Acts of Care: The Lost Letters of Liverpool Linda Brothwell restored missing letters in iconic building signs with a new handcrafted alphabet, featuring hand-pierced brass scrollwork that combined traditional English and Polish Wycinanki designs. The techniques and processes created an act of care in the public space of Liverpool, a positive symbol of the diversity of the city. For The Norwich Edition Brothwell Brothwell proposes a new Act of Care which is inspired by the dyeing and textile heritage of the city and its numerous medieval doorways. Her proposed intervention will be executed in coloured wooden inlay – a juxtaposition of technique (dyeing) with material (wood).
The project Neurotic Machines by Rachel Rayns developed with the Raspberry Pi Foundation shows us how a Raspberry Pi greenhouse can work as an alternative gardening system.Through Neurotic Machines Rayns encourages people of all ages to learn more about both the process of growing plants as well as computer programming. A purpose-built garden is installed in the gallery, teaching us how computing can be used in unexpected, creative and rewarding contexts.
DoESLiverpool, a co-working space in the heart of Liverpool and the newly-formed Norwich Hackspace present an iteration of the open-source project e-NABLE, a global network of passionate volunteers using 3D printing to make prosthetic hands. Inspired by a local family who used DoESLiverpool's workshop to print hand parts, DoES has installed a ‘production line’ for prosthetic hands.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/build-your-own/?utm_sour...
engage International Conference 2015
http://www.axisweb.org/features/news-and-views/in-focus/engage-inte...
The engage International Conference takes place 19 & 20 November in Glasgow and we're looking for someone to blog from the event
A Different Game: Young people working with art and artists
The 2015 engage International Conference
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall & venues across Glasgow, 19 & 20 November 2015
Fringe events across Glasgow 18, 19 & 21 November 2015
#engConf15
Will you be at the engage Conference 2015*? Would you like to contribute your opinions, sum up and create conversations online?
Axisweb is offering a commission (fee: £150) for someone to blog from the conference, picking up on the discussions and themes from each day and inspiring others to join the debate.
We’re open to how you would like to record your experiences, be it words, photos, videos, Instagram takeover, or perhaps you would prefer to draw your ideas and impressions of the conference. The outcomes will be shared and published via Axisweb.
Fee
£150
How to apply
Complete the expressions of interest form by 12pm Monday 12 October 2015.
JAM
http://www.icontact-archive.com/E14a4b-ENs5gNWtGCmN_48T_i05QNh0F?w=4
Machi de Waard - flavour of the month
Machi is our in-house jeweller at Jam. This new collection is a result of months of design work. Come and talk to Machi about her jewellery on Tuesdays.
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