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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
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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We would like to remind you of our opening hours during the festive season:
Goldsmiths' Hall - Tuesday 23 December 2014 - close at 5pm. The Office will reopen on Monday 5 January 2015 at 8am.
Greville Street - Tuesday 23 December 2014 - close at 5pm. The Office will reopen on Monday 5 January 2015 at 9am.
Standard service - packets must be received by 5pm on Friday 19 December.
Early Hall service - packets must be received by 5pm on Monday 22 December and will be ready for dispatch that evening for post packets, or ready to collect in person on Tuesday 23 December.
Image: Spinning Tops, Ben James Ryan
The 'Cabinet of Curiosities' exhibition at The Goldsmiths' Centre celebrates the most beautiful, hand-made pieces of jewellery, silver and curiosity objects. Behind each door of their Advent Calendar you will find a new surprise, from the deceptively simple to the ornately desirable.
All of the work has been made by those involved at The Goldsmiths’ Centre from tenants, tutors to trainees.
Get in touch to open the next door of their Advent Calendar to win a free coffee for you and your guest at their café, The Bench.
Email info@goldsmiths-centre.org, Tweet@GsmithsCentre #xmascuriosities2014, or message the Centre's Facebook page.You will also be put into a lucky dip to have a bottle of bubbly at The Bench, which will be drawn on Christmas Eve!
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Until Tuesday 6 January 2015
Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm. Free.
Read now... deadline tomorrow!
HCA/QEST APPRENTICESHIPS IN HERITAGE CRAFTS
http://awards.heritagecrafts.org.uk/?p=68
Five apprenticeships of up to £18,000 (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust)
The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) Heritage Crafts Apprenticeships are for those who wish to start learning a heritage craft. The Apprenticeships, in association with the Allied Livery Companies, are in five categories – embroidery, stone, paper or textile conservation and culinary arts. The fifth category is open to all crafts.
Applicants are likely to have had some experience and knowledge of the craft, and are aiming to pursue the craft as a career. It is possible for the Apprentices to work with one Master Craftsperson as a trainer and mentor, or to work with various high level craftspeople to learn different, but linked, skills. This Award is being administered by QEST.
Nominations for the award can come from trainee or trainer/employer. Trainers/employers may apply without a specific apprentice in mind, but apprentices must secure the agreement of a trainer/employer. Initial judging and shortlisting will be by the Heritage Crafts Awards judging team, and specialist judges, and final interview, selection and approval will be by QEST committee including specialist judges. There will be HCA representation on this committee. Interviews will be in London and are will take place from 8 to 12 December 2014. The QEST Heritage Crafts Apprentices will be honoured at the HCA Spring Conference. on 9 May 2015.
Specialist judges are:
Stone – Thomas Appleton, Lettercutter and Stonemason
Embroidery – Anne Butcher, Programme Director, Royal School of Needework
Conservation – Susan Bradshaw, Professional Development Manager, Institute of Conservation
Culinary arts – to be confirmed
Closing date for applications for this Award: Monday 1 December 2014, 2pm
To apply
Read the application notes and then download an application form
Bespoke Design Competition -awarded by Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery
DATE: 17 October 2014, 09:00 — 16 January 2015, 10:00
The brief is to submit sketches of designs for bespoke jewellery to suit the lifestyle & taste of Corinna Jane, a real life musician & performer who is a rising star.
Imagine you have a budget of £2k for materials. We are looking for creativity and In conjunciton with the Goldsmiths Craft & Design Council. There is a Prize of £1k, which will be awarded at the Ceremony in March. Open to anyone working or studying in the jewellery industry. For more info and to view the video of Corinna performing:
http://www.hkjewellery.co.uk/web/page/goldsmiths-craft-and-design-c...
Between Art and Nature, Jewellery and Ceramics by Daniel Kruger
EXHIBITION / 11 DEC 2014 - 08 MAR 2015
Hardly any other artist working in jewellery today has come up more freely and uninhibitedly with so many visual worlds of a highly personal kind over the course of a career. Since he grew up in South Africa, he often draws on elements of African folk art but is equally likely to use found objects of all kinds or even to quote historical forms and patterns. He is also committed to the classical canon of forms where he considers it a suitable point of departure for his idiosyncratic transformation into the here and now.
Daniel Kruger’s unusual combinations of materials and his reinterpretations of craft skills, often techniques used in textiles, lend his pieces of jewellery new perspectives that never cease to astonish and are invariably a treat from the aesthetic standpoint. The synchronicity of so many different possibilities of expression may well be the salient characteristic informing his works.
Sabine Epple, Museum for Applied Art Leipzig
http://klimt02.net/events/exhibitions/between-art-nature-daniel-kru...
ResonanceFM Broadcasts
Making Conversations is a series that originally aired on Resonance104.4fm.
Episode 1: Professor Andrew Prescott, AHRC Digital Transformations Research Fellow, talks to Jon Rogers and Justin Marshall about how using digital technology playfully and creatively and treating it as a craft can humanise our increasingly technocentric world.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/makeshift
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