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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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England’s ‘Craft Town’
September 2013
This October sees the realisation of a dream long held by many, as Farnham officially becomes England’s ‘Craft Town’.
Farnham Town Council has secured £10,000 Town Team funding to focus on Farnham’s ambition to be known as England’s Craft Town. The distinctive edge that is Farnham’s significant art and crafts history will be used to attract new people to visit the town and increase footfall to local businesses and organisations.
Councillor Jill Hargreaves, Farnham Town Council’s Lead Member for Tourism & Events says “Farnham has a rich craft heritage which makes it stand out from other towns. We plan to promote this asset and encourage visitors to come to Farnham and the surrounding villages to share in the craft experience. An increased visitor footfall will support local businesses and will help sustain the town and village centres as bustling, vibrant focal points of the community”.
Gavin Stride, Director of Farnham Maltings says “Farnham has come to be recognised as a craft town much because of its creative traditions, but also because of the work that happens here now. In time, our hope is that people will come to think of Farnham and crafts in much the same way as one thinks of Hay-on-Wye and books.”
Together with the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham Maltings, the New Ashgate Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, 318 Ceramics at Farnham Pottery, and many more craft based organisations, the town will play host to what will become an annual, monthly celebration of crafts. This years activities taking place throughout October include a willow workshop at Farnham Library, knitting, sewing, drawing and pottery demonstrations and workshops popping up in unexpected places across the town, there will be something to pique the interests of all from novices to experienced makers.
The newly established 318 Ceramics will be running weekend workshops for adults, under the instruction of internationally renowned makers. There will also be a Halloween workshop at the Pottery for children during half term, alongside taster sessions throughout the town for all to try their hand at something new.
The Crafts Study Centre stages ‘Setting the Scene: New Landscapes in Craft’ from the 8th October. This exhibition looks at the influence of landscape on practitioners from ceramic and metal workers to textiles and plastics.
The New Ashgate Gallery will be a destination for buying the best of affordable contemporary crafts by emerging and established makers. As part of the Autumn Craft Collection and Maker in Focus shows, it showcases a wide range of handcrafted jewellery, ceramics, textiles, prints and original paintings of regional and national crafts by more than 100 makers. Also, the gallery is hosting its fifth annual Surrey Artist of the Year exhibition, organised in partnership with Surrey Arts.
Dr Simon Ofield-Kerr, Vice-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts welcomes the recognition: “Farnham’s long history of craft is one of the reasons that the University for the Creative Arts is based in Farnham. For the past 150 years, UCA Farnham has trained and collaborated with the town’s makers and businesses. One of the earliest examples was collaboration in 1890 with Farnham Pottery, which gave our students the opportunity to make a wide range of wares for Liberty’s of London. I believe that recognising Farnham’s national importance in Craft will not only make residents proud of the town’s unique history, but also provide the impetus to keep these important and relevant traditions alive for generations to come.”
For further information please contact melanie.lucas@318ceramics.co.uk
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