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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
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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Caroline Gore …mercurial silence…
November 5-30, 2014
http://www.velvetdavincigallery.com/upcoming/
Caroline Gore’s recent series …mercurial silence… is the culmination of an investigation of how grief and loss manifest in society. This body of work considers comparative meanings sought through the multidisciplinary research of historical jewelry, Roman myth, photographic materials, and functional/sculptural objects as they relate to commonalities across human experience.
With an undergraduate degree in Crafts (jewelry focus) from Virginia Commonwealth University and a graduate degree in Metal Design from East Carolina University, Gore is known on a national level for her expansive and thought provoking studio practice. Ranging from small-scale wearable pieces to multimedia sculptural installations, large scale drawings, and conceptual photographic objects, Gore’s work be found in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Racine Art Museum, and numerous private collections. Her jewelry has been featured in group and solo exhibitions across the US, in addition to publications such as Metalsmith Magazine and the 500 series books published by Lark Books. The artist currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she serves as an Associate Professor of Jewelry/Metals in the Craft & Material Studies program at The University of the Arts.
gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London, SE1 9PH
Dates: 9 November - 11 January
Opening Times: 10.00am - 7.00pm
Admission: Free
Biggest ever exhibition set to Dazzle …
For 33 years, Dazzle contemporary jewellery selling exhibitions have been an eagerly anticipated annual barometer of all that is new, quality and exciting in the sector, bringing together the most innovative and skilled proponents of the art; whether the big, collectable names or rising stars, hand picked from the annual graduate shows.
After losing their longstanding National Theatre residency last year, Dazzle were thrilled to take a short trot down the South Bank to gallery@oxo – a venue so suited to exhibiting and selling what is, essentially, wearable art. This year they bring their largest ever Dazzle exhibition to the space, showcasing 90 designers from 20 countries, selling 4,000 handmade pieces, all unique and all ready to take home.
With materials ranging from plastic to platinum to pearls, styles from finely figurative to stridently sculptural to classic contemporary, designers hailing from Bogota to Brighton and prices spanning £12 to £3,500, there is a Dazzler for everyone; making it the perfect place for some unusually civilized Christmas shopping for truly special gifts, whether watches, necklaces, earrings, rings, brooches, bracelets, bangles or cufflinks.
Opening times:
Open daily: 10am-7pm
Thursdays: till 8pm with a free gift wrapping service from 5pm-8pm
Sundays: 11am-6pm
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