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 October 31, 2015 at 7:01am
Another half-time post in School Of Jewellery, Birmingham City University
102015-441 Lecturer in Jewellery Design for Technology 0.5FTE - Jobs at Birmingham City University
Joining the School of Jewellery as a Lecturer, you’ll primarily support our highly successful BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing - Design for Industry (top-up) degree course, but will also contribute to other courses within the School.

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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 7:00am
Really good AGM today in London with 15 of us meeting, networking, visiting A sense of Jewellery at the Goldsmiths' Centre and then to the pub. Excellent to see everyone and meet some people face to face
http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/…/ex…/a-sense-of-jewellery/
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 31, 2015 at 6:58am
Save the date: http://www.londondesignfestival.com/
The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world and as the gateway to the international creative community. The next Festival will be held 17-25 September 2016.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 7:36am

SLEIGHT OF HAND
ACJ Touring Exhibition
Mon 16 Nov – Sat 12 Dec
This year’s exhibition from the Association for Contemporary Jewellery is about magic – the
magic of making, illusions, pulling ideas out of hats and thin air. Clever fingers, deception,
smoke & mirrors, craftiness and sheer skill.
29 makers and 54 pieces will be showcased from ACJ members as far afield as Vienna and Australia, as
well as jewellers working in all corners of the UK.
The makers present a wide range of techniques, from traditional to contemporary, whilst utilising unusual
materials (including plastics, paper, resin, glass, found objects and various metals) and demonstrating a
vibrant display of skill, wit and excellent design.
The Association for Contemporary Jewellery was founded in 1997 to promote greater understanding of
contemporary jewellery practice, to support jewellers’ creative and professional development and to
develop audiences for this lively field of contemporary craft and design.
acj.org.uk
Annette Gerritse
Exhibition Opening: Weds 18th Nov / 5-7pm.
Join us for the opening of Sleight of Hand, open to all,
with refreshments provided.

The Association for Contemporary Jewellery's photo.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 7:32am
Suzan Drummen is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in the Netherlands. Her colourful works include installations made of glittering gems, crystals, precious stones, optical glass, mirrors and chrome-plated metals that have been laid freely on the ground. The result is spectacular and dazzling.
Incredibly, Drummen does not start with a plan or specific design when she begins these creations. Instead, she is guided by the specificities of each site – from its visitors to its lighting, colours and atmosphere.
Working gem-by-gem and stone-by-stone, her installations slowly and organically evolve into finished works that attract the eye of the viewer from a distance with a clearly ordered and patterned design. Upon closer inspection, the fine details dazzle and overwhelm the viewer with complex detail and stimuli, thus challenging and intensifying the viewer’s visual perception and experience.
The twinkling surfaces, the colour contrasts, the use and reuse of repetitive themes are characteristic of Suzan Drummen’s work. Everything keeps returning in a different form: in different materials or on a different scale. Works endlessly mirror each other. Sometimes there are round photos of earlier works placed between the stones. The viewer is always faced with an abundance of sensory perceptions.
You can discover more about the work of Suzan Drummen
http://materia.nl/article/the-kaleidoscopic-installations-of-suzan-...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 7:20am

Second Hand First Hand from Caroline Broadhead and Maria Militsi opened at Marsden Woo. Jewellery fans can hear Caroline speak at our Jewellery Study Day on 5 November.
http://www.marsdenwoo.com/?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=... 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 7:17am
10/10/2015
ONE ON TWO Nº2

Art history is a long road where precocities and delays often collide; it’s made of screams and terrible silences. As Henri Focillon wrote once, “[a work of art] is both completely absorbed in the dynamism of time and, at the same time, a universal witness”[1]: forms live through time and space, and history of the arts testifies to their lives. This One on Two article will try to delineate how circular layered forms are expressed and rendered by the artists Karen M

......... making holes and revitalizing them by composing them in layers.....

http://artjewelryforum.org/node/7151?utm_source=10.15.2015+Newsletter+2&utm_campaign=10.15.2015+Newsletter2&utm_medium=emailSusie Ganch, Untitled, from the Dust series, brooch, 2009, sterling silver, stainless steel, enameled copper, 159 x 159 x 64 mm, photo: artist

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 7:10am

AJF is thankful to have an audience of responsive, thoughtful readers. The call for interviewers was answered and we now have a full roster of insightful writers to interview talented artists about the objects they make and we love. Thanks!

There is a growing team of people that makes AJF possible. You, the reader, are an integral part of making AJF viable and so are the volunteer interns that help AJF run smoothly. Current interns are administrative intern Emily Culver--Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Aniya Dunkley--Alchimia, who does double duty as an administrative intern and social media intern.

Emily Culver

Aniya Dunkley
AJF is now looking for assistance with our Pinterest page. If you are a student or recent graduate from one of AJF's supporter schools, we'd love for you to join the volunteer team of interns and keep AJF's Pinterest page dynamic and engaging. If you want to join the team, working directly with the inimitable Kevin Murray, please send your contact information to info@artjewelryforum.org, Subject: PINTEREST, and include your school affiliation, links to your current Pinterest boards, and why you want to intern with AJF. We look forward to hearing from you!

Xo,

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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 7:05am

How to approach match-funding
How can you use match-funding to reach your funding targets? Chris Buckingham, from crowdfunding research agency Minivation, explains how to approach third parties who may have an interest in your project succeeding.

Pitching your match-funding idea to a third party in the right way is key to your success.
What is match-funding?
Match-funding is asking a third party to back you by adding an equivalent amount to your fundraising campaign to that which has been pledged by the crowd.

So if the crowd donates £20, the match-funder also donates £20 making £40 in total.

The third party matches any funding you are offered by the crowd with funding from their own resources.

A match-funder backs you by donating an equivalent amount to what has been pledged by the crowd.
Let's use an example of a sculptor trying to raise money for a piece she wants to create for the benefit of a local community.

The sculptor starts a straightforward crowdfunding campaign where they offer rewards to the crowd for their money.

Now imagine that the sculptor could also get funding from a corporate body. How quickly would that help her reach her funding target?

Potentially, this input could have a significant impact on the success of the campaign.

Choosing a match-funder
Getting corporate bodies to donate to any cause is difficult. Asking them to donate to a crowdfunding project could be an even greater barrier.

But being a little smarter in the way you approach a corporate body could make a significant difference.

The difficulty lies in identifying a value proposition that will attract the third party to offer you match-funding.

Both the value and the values of the campaign must be aligned with those of the third party corporate body
No third party is going to back a project that conflicts with the core values of a brand or its message.
Our sculptor could be seeking match-funding from a gallery, a tool producer, a local foundation or even a corporate body not related to the arts at all. But it would need to be a company with an interest in the local community, or one that is sympathetic to the project.

Approaching a match-funder
Generally speaking, persuading a company to match-fund your project requires some broad thinking on both sides.

First, contact a couple of corporate bodies and ask for their feedback.
But it's surprising how many large corporations can benefit from just this kind of project if they know about it, or indeed have the chance to get involved.

Large corporations often have a policy in place called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In part, what this policy is designed to do is provide them with the opportunity to do some good and give a little extra back to society.

Match-funding can be pitched as a kind of safety net for the corporation. If there is not enough interest in your project, they lose nothing, but if there is interest they gain in many more ways than just giving the money to a cause.

On top of that, they get input from you, as manager of the campaign, for free!

... http://ccskills.org.uk/careers/develop-your-career/article/how-to-a...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 25, 2015 at 6:59am

Preview event at
Winter Open Studios on Friday, November 20 – drop in anytime from 4pm to 7pm.


We very much hope to see you there.

If you have any questions please do feel free to contact me.

Best wishes


Lucia Blash
Press & PR
The Sorting Office
Eastleigh Borough Council
07447 926893
www.sorting-office.co.uk
@Sorting_Office

 

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