The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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

The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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streamlining our pages

Started by Rebecca Skeels Oct 11, 2020. 0 Replies

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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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 28, 2014 at 7:35am
Eye Contact

11 JULY
FREE | WALK BY

Eye Contact by Peter Hudson, 2014.

The Wellcome Trust held a competition to design a window display on the theme of the changing perception of images. Taking pride of place in the large windows of the Wellcome Trust building next door to us, Eye Contact responds to our ever-increasing reliance on the screen for human communication.

Pop up the street to 215 Euston Road to see this striking display in action.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 28, 2014 at 7:32am
Applications are invited from designer makers working in the following areas:
fashion design & accessories, interior design and accessories, glass, jewellery, furniture, stationery, metalwork, ceramics, sculpture, woodwork, prints and etchings.

We are now accepting applications for new exhibitors.
The application deadline is Monday 30th June 2014.

Questions for the team?
craft@clarionevents.com
0207 286 5110
0207 384 7728
@craftclarion
www.craft-london.com
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 28, 2014 at 7:29am
Your dream is to launch your own jewelry collection? Behance Russia and IYNO* jewelry company are holding a jewelry design contest, with the chance to see your collection released as a main prize!

TRANSFORM Your Mind contest – international challenge aimed to support young jewelry designers – starts on July 7.

All jewelry designers aged 18 and up are eligible to participate.

The contest will have 2 stages.
At Stage 1, our expert judging panel will select 10 finalists who will receive US$1000 prizes. We plan to announce the finalists on August 5.

At Stage 2, the ten finalists will have to review and improve their designs, taking into consideration the comments and suggestions made by IYNO experts. The winner of the contest will see the implementation of his/her jewelry set concept – mass production of 3000-5000 copies to be sold in IYNO stores in Moscow, New York and Hong Kong. The winner will also get a US$5000 prize and an invitation for an internship or employment opportunity (full-time or remote) at IYNO.

*IYNO is a new brand of modern jewelry – lifestyle items that change depending on the wearer's mood. The first jewelry collection will be sold in a chain of IYNO retail stores in Moscow, New York, and Hong Kong. Manufacturing, website, and marketing campaign are scheduled to begin in the fall of 2014.

Click here for more information about the challenge. http://bit.ly/1pHCgh9

Best Regards, Tanya Smirnova - Behance ambassador in Russia.

We'll be happy to answer any of your questions =)
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 28, 2014 at 7:14am
Flavour of the month
Noon Mitchelhill - jewellery

Noon Mitchelhill's range of gold and silver pieces are delightful to wear and
timeless in design.

From the simply understated to bold shapes and dramatic pieces, there is something for every occasion for both men and women.

http://jam-eton.co.uk/makers/noon-mitchelhill.html
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 25, 2014 at 5:07pm
SPACES AVAILABLE
At the time of writing we have spaces available at the following events due to unexpected cancellations:

RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Essex - 22-25 August (sorry cannot consider applications from jewellers now)

Wellington College, Crowthorne - 29-31 August (sorry cannot consider applications from jewellers now)

Desire Jewellery & Silversmithing Fair, Winchester - 7-9 November (open to silversmiths and jewellers working in any media)

If you are interested in applying for any of these spaces please complete and return the relevant booking form as soon as possible with a deposit cheque of £60 (and images of your work if you have not exhibited with us before). Booking forms can be downloaded by clicking here. http://www.craftinfocus.com/exhibitor_downloads.html
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 25, 2014 at 1:23am
Goldsmiths' Review Out Soon

The Company is about to publish its annual review, a handsome magazine packed with fascinating news and features. Highlights include articles about three precious metal stars: silversmith Ndidi Ekubia, the enameller Ros Conway and the jeweller, Jane Sarginson. Historians are treated to features on Sir Hugh Myddelton and Ralph Robynson, the Tudor scholar and Goldsmiths’ liveryman. The review also details important developments across the Company's activities.

The Review can be delivered to the UK for £6 and overseas for £10.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 25, 2014 at 1:20am
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 23, 2014 at 2:21pm
See below from School of Jewellery. Please return any info to Gay Penfold at Birmingham, not to ACJ.

Calling all Birmingham School of Jewellery trained jewellers!!

In 2015 the School of Jewellery Birmingham is celebrating its 125th Birthday. We are at the early stages of planning a series of events which will take place throughout 2015 to celebrate. One of our 2015 activities centres on our alumni. We want to try to identify as many people who trained at the School of Jewellery as possible and also any identify items of their work which are on public display. We will be asking alumni to complete a questionnaire about their time at the School and then, from the responses we receive, Alumni will be selected and contacted via the internet. They will then be asked to post a short description of themselves and their practice via a Video collection package called Miituu. They also present, via the camera, an Artefact to represent themselves and their work. This may be a piece of work, a picture of their studio, the view from their studio window or their bench, or a drawing – we are giving participants pretty free licence on this! The result will be a video “wall” of mini presentations from alumni.

If members of the Association of Contemporary Jewellers are interested please can they fill in the boxes below and return to me at gay.penfold@bcu.ac.uk

Name

Company and position

Contact info

Studied? Date and Course

Product? Displayed where?




In addition we have a pin competition which is only open to alumni may be of interest – pin competition deadline is Friday 27th June – next week... email for more info



We want to hear from as many alumni as possible!

Many thanks for your time and best regards

Gay

Gay Penfold

Centre Manager

Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre

Birmingham School of Jewellery

Birmingham City University

Vittoria Street

Birmingham B1 3PA



Gay.penfold@bcu.ac.uk
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 17, 2014 at 5:16pm
Spring Fling 2015 Young Artist Bursary

Spring Fling is offering 3 x Young Artists Bursaries for artist and maker graduates of UK art schools who are originally from or have a connection to Dumfries and Galloway. This bursary of £1000 will encourage young artists to work in the region. Spring Fling will offer a mentoring program with an established practitioner in a related discipline, £1000 to fund the creation of new work, and funded and automatic entry into Spring Fling 23 – 25 May 2015. The £1000 bursary will be used to cover the cost of materials, and expenses incurred in creating the new work and participating in the programme.

Deadline: 25th August 2014 5pm.

Guidelines for the bursary programme can be downloaded Spring Fling Young Artists Guidelines 2015 [PDF]. Please fill in the form below to apply. We highly recommend all applicants read through the application form to make sure you have all required documents and information before filling the form.

[Apply Here]

Here's what 2013/14 participant, Emma Kerr, had to say about the experience:

"The opportunity to have a mentor, who you can relate to, has been a key factor in making my experience of being a young artist great.

This has expanded my network and relating my work to someone with such vast experience, has allowed a fresh new perspective. Working with a mentor of a different discipline has been extremely rewarding, pushing the boundaries of my own creative practice and seeing the design process as a whole collection and range.

Having Spring Fling to work towards has allowed milestones for my work and the opportunity to be part of such a wide ranging exhibition in such a beautiful part of the region is totally unique, This experience has allowed my work to grow and develop by giving me the foundations of real practice, exhibitions and experience."
http://www.spring-fling.co.uk/opportunities/spring-fling-2015-young...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 17, 2014 at 5:01pm
 

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