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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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Rebecca, you asked for book recommendations. Here's one which I just bought for myself and that some others here might like as well. I will dig into this over the next months.
Author: Lisbeth den Besten
An introduction into art jewelry in light of current trends in contemporary fine art and society.
On Jewellery offers a comprehensive overview of the trends and role of contemporary international jewelry art from the 1960s to today, shown within the context of corresponding trends in art and society. This publication is dedicated to themes such as interdisciplinary collaboration, new means of presentation and contextualization. It also incorporates photography and the relationships between jewelry and the body, jewelry and ornament and new interpretations of traditional technical skills. Furthermore it considers aspects such as terminology and strategies, positioning, prejudices and the significance of content with regard to jewelry. On this basis this publication offers a synopsis of what jewelry art is and what it can be. Its aim is to reveal the characteristics, language and potential of jewelry. A bibliography of the most important works of jewelry art, a directory of jewelry galleries, museums and educational institutions make On Jewellery a compact handbook of contemporary jewelry art.
Artists featured include Pia Aleborg, Gijs Bakker, Melanie Bielenker, Manfred Bischoff, Helen Britton, Paul Derrez, Iris Eichenberg, Warwick Freeman, Otto Künzli, Daniel Kruger, Yuka Oyama, Robert Smit, Annamaria Zanella and Christoph Zellweger.
Contents: Beyond the Showcase; Conceptual Jewellery; Jewellery and Photography; Reading Jewellery; Borderline Jewellery; Jewellery and the Body; Jewellery and Ornament; Jewellery and the Goldsmith's Skill; The Language of Jewellery; Documentation: Manifests.
Since 1985, Liesbeth den Besten has worked free lance as a writer for newspapers, art and design magazines and exhibition catalogues. She is active as an advisor and jury member for Dutch and international governmental institutions, exhibitions and competitions, and lectures about contemporary jewelry and crafts at international conferences and art academies. She is chairwoman of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation for contemporary jewelry and one of the founding members of Think Tank, a European Initiative for the Applied Arts.
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Welcome Weston Beamor to Facebook https://www.facebook.com/westonbeamor?ref=stream A fabulous presentation from Glen and Ed today at UCA Farnham about all of there services and the exciting brooch made for the Queen!
Dear All,
I am co-curating and making work for a contemporary craft project about mending with Walford Mill Crafts, which some of you will already be aware of. Things are now up and running well, and you may be interested to find out more. The project website is http://www.natureofmending.co.uk
On the site, as well as general information about the project, you will find pages about each of the five commissioned artists, some of whom are keeping a blog type diary of their work. Each of us are working with reference to mending in the context of different museum collections, which has sparked off wonderfully diverse starting points including the work of Anna Freud with bereaved children, a doll's broken leg, ethnic arm bracelets, and stapled ceramics.
The final stage of the project will be an exhibition at Walford Mill Crafts and the Priests House Museum in September 2013.
You will also find a 'mending stories' page on the site, where anyone can post text and images of a mending story of their own, (it is extraordinary that just about everyone we have spoken with seems to have a story of some sort!). So do read what is already there, and it would be great if you also feel moved to make your own contributions.
You can follow us on Twitter and/or Facebook, and for those who don't go near social networking, if you click on the e-mail envelope icon next to the Facebook and Twitter buttons, you can sign up to an e-mail newsletter, which will be sent out from time to time, (not inundating your inbox I promise).
Many thanks to all those who have been so enthusiastic and supportive of getting this off the ground, and I hope some of you will enjoy following the project.
Very best wishes,
Jacy
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