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 April 29, 2017 at 8:11am: Lots going on at the Centre: http://mailchi.mp/goldsmiths-centre/the-goldsmiths-centre-celebrate...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 7:48am: 5 Years: Celebrating Impact

The UK jewellery industry’s sheer inventiveness and exceptional workmanship has enabled this ancient craft to survive and thrive in a global market.

the Goldsmiths’ Centre, celebrates its 5th Birthday, and also its continuing support towards the growth of this exceptional industry.

http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/about-the-centre/5-years-celebrati...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 7:45am: http://crafthaus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cabinet-maker-s-toolbox-by... Jewellers love a good toolbox!

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 7:11am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n1y62?utm_source=Master+List&...

A focus on working with metal with Agnes Jones an artist blacksmith and Corinne Julius, critic and curator - as we continue to explore the seven disciplines included in the Woman's Hour Craft Prize

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 7:09am: Bloomin’ Jewels:
The blossoming of the floral in contemporary jewellery

27 April – 3 June 2017, including special events,
London Craft Week and Chelsea Fringe
http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/2017/bloomin-jewels/?utm_source=M...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 7:07am: The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching a schools project to fill the gap in creating a new generation of designers.

The museum wants to revive interest in its specialist areas of art and design, in a project that will include museums in Blackburn and Coventry.

The Victoria and Albert Museum will lend them some of its artefacts.

Director Tristram Hunt says the museum has a responsibility to "promote design education for the future".

The secondary schools project, called DesignLab Nation, is being funded by prize money won by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) for being the Art Fund Museum of the Year.

The museum, which bills itself as "From Bauhaus to Bowie", wants to encourage interest in craft skills, particularly in industrial cities with a long heritage of design and manufacturing.

It is responding to worries about a lack of vocational skills and training for industry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39704998?utm_source=Master+List...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 6:59am: This is a fantastic opportunity for final year, postgraduate and recent graduate students to showcase their jewellery designs at IJL from the 3rd-5th September at Olympia London. Our audience is made up of retailers, buyers, press and designer brands so it is a great place to be seen and make valuable contacts.

free of charge.

Please find the link here http://www.jewellerylondon.com/Whats-On/brightyounggems/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 6:56am: Fairtrade Design Awards - Winner Announced
A student from the University of Dundee has won the Ingle & Rhode 2017 Fairtrade Gold Design Awards. Aspiring jewellery design undergraduate Angela Gillies won after competing against more than 100 budding designers and impressing the panel of judges including Goldsmiths very own Dave Merry.
https://www.ingleandrhode.co.uk/awards/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 6:33am: The gold standard

By Elinor Hughes30 March 2017
https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/meet-the-guardians-of-gold/2...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 29, 2017 at 6:29am: http://journal.thegembank.com/jewelcrowd/newsletter/brides-want-to-...
Jewel Crowd newsletter: The flowers are blooming – the sun is shining it’s so close to May and the promise of the longer pascal bruni.jpgwarmer days of the summer - which makes us want to swap our winter jewellery for the latest jewellery trends ready for the warmer months – already we know that flowers are huge this coming season, plus white jewellery, opals, coloured sapphires and rose gold continues to be a firm favourite for the summer as its warm tones are indicative of summer sunshine. This coming week we will be asking for summer jewellery trend predictions – what are yours?