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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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International crafts Vantage Point magazine is a local monthly mag that’s delivered to residential addresses in Godalming, Farnham, Haslemere, Guildford and Dorking. This is in the Farnham edition and it’s also available here: http://issuu.com/vantagepointmagazine/docs/vantagepoint_march_gu9. It’s page 24!
Dear All,
At Ardington we’re gearing up for our new season, which starts next month. Work is underway in the garden, to create an outdoor studio for the summer months. We will hold willow, flower arranging and watercolour courses under the shade of a lovely wooden pergola.
This year we’re offering almost 200 courses – just to make choosing particularly tricky! These include everything from jewellery cast in colourful resin and making paper from textiles, to upholstery and printmaking.
Our team of leading tutors just keeps growing. New-comers for 2014 include award-winning paper engineer and pop-up book artist Paul Johnson; Dave Venables, past-president of the British Origami Society; and acclaimed experimental paper-maker Jonathan Korejko. And that’s just in the paper people….
You can browse all our courses here: www.ardingtonschoolofcrafts.com
See you at Ardington!
Faith Pritchard
Co-Director
Ardington School of Crafts
Office hours: Wed – Sun, 9am – 5pm
HOLD IT! The Art of the Modern Medal
Saturday 8 March – Saturday 19 April 2014
Private view and announcements of the 2013 winners:
Friday 7 March, 6-8pm - all welcome
The Student Medal Project, now in its 21st year, is a success story for bringing the art of the modern medal into the art college curriculum, whether in sculpture, metal work or jewellery. It is an introduction to the age-old art of bronze casting, where students themselves each create a small but powerful work of two-sided relief sculpture, which can be held in the hand.
This exhibition takes us from the political to the personal, the abstract to the mainstream, as the students – and some professional makers – express their creativity and craftsmanship in the surprising medium of the modern art medal.
The British Art Medal Society, which is behind this Project, is based at the British Museum. It also commissions medals every year for sale to its members, arranges lectures and conferences. At the British Museum can be found the country’s wide-ranging collection of modern art medals, including student medals it has purchased. Each year colleges around the UK are invited to participate, plus an academy from abroad, this year, the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. The culmination of the Project is the annual exhibition, which in 2014 will be held at the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham, Surrey.
Press images:
Prize-winners from the 2012 British Art Medal Society Student Medal Project
1. Are you who you say you are?, 2012, Bo Behan, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham (bronze on copper plate, 8mm x 8mm)
This prize-winning medal tackles the questions surrounding social media, where anonymity gives protection to the one who sends out falsehoods, but causes others to build their beliefs on an identity that may be non-existent. However, the medal also champions this networking site, as it can be used by those who are repressed to support their causes.
2. Fleeting Moment, 2013, Alice Ellis-Bray, Falmouth University (cast bronze, 9.5mm diam.)
The artist won a prize for this medal, which captures a personal moment, when a butterfly came to rest against her cheek. The butterfly and the chrysalis are used metaphorically, to suggest change may come, and patience and time are required for any form of transformation. We learn from mistakes and overcoming obstacles.
The New Ashgate Gallery is a destination for viewing and buying the best of affordable contemporary art and craft by established and emerging artists and makers. New Ashgate is dedicated to promote and champion the best contemporary art and craft in the market place and to provide an unparalleled resource in Farnham, Surrey and beyond. The Gallery curates an exciting programme of changing exhibitions and has an affordable gift shop. As a not-for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging artists and makers through mentoring and touring exhibitions, working in partnership with organisations such as the University for the Creative Arts and the Crafts Council.
The Gallery will also organise and host the touring Rising Stars 2014 exhibition, 8 March – 19 April, that showcases the best of emerging craft talent in the UK.
Opening hours: Tue-Sat: 10am-5pm.
For more information and images, contact Dr Outi Remes,
Gallery Director: outi.remes@newashgate.org.uk
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