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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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okay... last one now!!
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Artists International Development Fund - Call for Applications
The Artists’ international development programme is a £750,000 fund, jointly funded by the British Council and Arts Council England.
The programme offers early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self employed artists based in England to spend time building links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers in another country.
We have developed the Artists’ international development fund to help us achieve our aims within goal 1 of our 10-year framework Achieving great art for everyone: talent and artistic excellence are thriving and celebrated. We want artists to be open to international perspectives and to expand their horizons. You can find out more about this in the Arts Council Plan 2011-15.
The British Council and the Arts Council want the programme to produce:
• a cadre of artists and creative practitioners in the UK (and also globally) who have experienced the benefits of international working between the UK and other countries and are advocates for it among their peers
• an increase in the amount of international collaboration among artists between the UK and other countries across the arts and creative industries
• artistic development for artists
Artists are able to apply for small grants (minimum of £1,000 up to £5,000). You can only apply to the Artists’ international development programme once in any financial year.
Spirit of Spring, Surrey Guild of Craftsmen
The Surrey Guild of Craftsmen are taking over the Cellar Bar at Farnham Maltings. With over 20 members showing a wide variety of their work, this is an ideal opportunity to chat directly with the makers, have fresh look at craft, see new designs and demonstrations.
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 April 2012, 10.30am-5pm, free entry
The Medicine Garden Art Festival - Call for Applications
Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 July 2012
The Medicine Garden is a beautifully restored Victorian walled garden in Cobham, Surrey. Applications are invited from artists to sell work at the art festival on Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 July 2012. The booking fee for each stall is £40 per day outdoors or £60 per day inside the marquee. Applications are also sought from sculptures for displays outside in the walled garden. The fee per group of sculptures will be £40 per day with a 10% commission charge on all sales of sculptures over £100.
Deadline for Applications: Sunday 15 April 2012
For more information go to www.themedicinegarden.com For guidelines and an application form please email: ruth@themedicinegarden.com
festival of crafts – Call for Applications
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October 2012
This annual event is a major craft festival showcasing over 70 leading designer makers. The festival is recognised by Arts Council South East as one of the premier craft events in the region. Applications are welcome from makers producing original work. The show offers opportunities to well established craft practitioners as well as first time exhibitors and graduates. The selection process aims to offer visitors a variety of contemporary craft by innovative makers.
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 8 May 2012
For further information or an application form please contact Pauline Smith on 01252 745405, pauline.smith@farnhammaltings.com or visit
I'm away for a week so please add your own events, images of new work, opportunities, experiences and more on the ACJ Crafthaus page, Linkedin page and Facebook page. Thank you
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Rebecca is posting up lots on the Benchpeg pages for Jewellery jobs! do take a look! http://benchpeg.com/jobs/
Rising Stars Symposium
26-27 April 2012
Two Days of Seminars, Workshops and Talks to support the Practice of Emerging Artists and Makers
Free admission but booking is essential
Tel: 01252 713208; email: gallery@newashgate.org.uk
Thursday 26 April
Meeting the Makers and Shakers
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Small Lecture Theatre
11am, Registration
11.15, Welcome & announcement of the Rising Stars Prize for professional development
Dr Outi Remes, Director, New Ashgate Gallery, and Rebecca Skeels, UCA. The Prize is supported by Andrew and Lucinda Fleming.
11.30- 12noon, Getting Together, Professor Simon Olding, Director Craft Study Centre.
12noon-1pm, The Crafts Council Programme, Madeleine Furness, Maker Development Officer, The Crafts Council
Lunch break (to be organised independently)
2-3pm, Open Studios, Surrey Arts and Opportunities in Surrey, Caroline Jackman, Visual Arts Officer, Surrey Open Studios Co-ordinator, Surrey Arts
3-4pm, An introduction to Waverley’s arts service; our strategic partners and priorities and the work of Arts Partnership Surrey
Charlotte Gardiner, Community Development Officer (Arts), Waverley Country Council
4-5pm, Approaching art organisations and galleries alongside the much debated arts internship
Kate Ratcliffe, Visual Arts Coordinator, South Hill Park; Samantha Robertson, Artist in Residence, South Hill Park
6pm, Informal Networking Dinner/Drinks
Confirm attendance with Helen Goodin, Rising Stars Intern:helenchristinegoodin@gmail.com
Friday 27 April
Practice in Focus
Farnham Maltings & New Ashgate Gallery
11am -12.00noon, Farnham Maltings – Supporting Artists
An informal introduction to Farnham Maltings – who we are, what we do and how we support makers and their practise. Followed by a tour of the building and studios.
Amy Collins, Craft & Exhibitions Officer, Farnham Maltings, Meet at the Tannery Room for Studio Visits
12noon-1pm, Take Better Photos, Meet at the New Ashgate Gallery (max 8 participants)
Colin Mills, Photographer
Lunch break (to be organised independently)
2-3pm, Life after Graduation: The Experience of a New Designer: Artist Talk
A look into a personal experience of entering the creative industry as a new artist, building a creative identity, starting up on a budget and most importantly finding a market.
Emmeline Hastings, Artist
3-5.15pm, Career Workshop, book required for each session
Jonathan Parsons, Artist, writer and educator
3-3.40: Self-employed working
3.45-4.25: Considering open submission opportunities
4.30-5.15: Internet presence and social media
3-4pm, Career Workshop for Makers, Working as a Maker
Rebecca Skeels, Designer-Maker, UCA
http://www.lanciatrendvisions.com/en/newsletter/1333354710
Superstition is far from extinct. Perhaps because our fears have increased… Dana Hakim sublimates this current state with her collection of modern amulets "My Four Guardian Angels 2011 – The Blue series".
In societies of the past they served the purpose of protecting from the evil eye, demons and negativity. Transposed to today, the amulets of jewelry designer Dana Hakim are a multifaceted prism through which to observe our "society of fear", as she defines it.
From the rough sea of constant anxiety in which we all fumble about, Dana fishes the remains of objects connected to safety: gas masks, light reflectors, protective materials such as filters, nets or work gloves. She re-elaborates them, transforming them into jewel-amulets of symbolic value.
For Dana Hakim, the art of making jewelry opens up new dimensions in the relationship between object-wearer-observer. Her artifacts becomes questions in the form of a 3D object and pose doubts regarding our daily and social life. Objects that suggest a new critical vision.
At the moment Dana Hakim is showing at the Louise Smit Gallery in Amsterdam alongside Jasmin Matzakow. The exhibition is called "BreakThrough" and will end on March 29th.
Photos via danahakim.com
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