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 December 1, 2014 at 4:26pm
Ann Marie Shillito, FRSA
As Anarkik3D's CEO, published author, designer maker, I help non-CAD creatives into 3D digital design & 3D printing
Passionate about 3D printing - but can't do CAD? Here is a link to a SlideShare presentation (http://www.slideshare.net/AnnMarieShillito/) rich in images and information about 3D printing, how to get models and how designer makers and artists are using 3D technologies. The blog is also about a visit to Creative Spark in Dundalk in Ireland to give a 1 day workshop/class on 3D modelling for 3D printing for designers and artists and a drop-in hands-on demo session, a visit to Mcor Technologies to see their impressive colour 3D printers, and a visit to the Fablab in Limerick.

Passionate about 3D printing - but can't do CAD? anarkik3d.wordpress.com
This is the title of the Presentation I gave at the 3DPrintShow 2014 in London in September about other ways that designers are accessing 3D printing! I gave the presentation again (more slides ad...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:59am


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Assay Office Christmas Opening Times

We would like to remind you of our opening hours during the festive season:

Goldsmiths' Hall - Tuesday 23 December 2014 - close at 5pm. The Office will reopen on Monday 5 January 2015 at 8am.

Greville Street - Tuesday 23 December 2014 - close at 5pm. The Office will reopen on Monday 5 January 2015 at 9am.

Standard service - packets must be received by 5pm on Friday 19 December.

Early Hall service - packets must be received by 5pm on Monday 22 December and will be ready for dispatch that evening for post packets, or ready to collect in person on Tuesday 23 December.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:58am

Curiosities at The Goldsmiths' Centre

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Image: Spinning Tops, Ben James Ryan

The 'Cabinet of Curiosities' exhibition at The Goldsmiths' Centre celebrates the most beautiful, hand-made pieces of jewellery, silver and curiosity objects. Behind each door of their Advent Calendar you will find a new surprise, from the deceptively simple to the ornately desirable.

All of the work has been made by those involved at The Goldsmiths’ Centre from tenants, tutors to trainees.

Get in touch to open the next door of their Advent Calendar to win a free coffee for you and your guest at their café, The Bench. 

Email info@goldsmiths-centre.org, Tweet@GsmithsCentre #xmascuriosities2014, or message the Centre's Facebook page.You will also be put into a lucky dip to have a bottle of bubbly at The Bench, which will be drawn on Christmas Eve!

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Until Tuesday 6 January 2015
Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm. Free.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:57am
The Future of our Expert Workshop


We have recently invested in a state of the art CNC (computer numerical control) milling machine for our workshop.

This machine’s increased accuracy will prove vital for the manufacture of support tools and punches for hallmarking. The automation afforded by computer control will free up time and increase workshop productively.

The machine, an SMX 2000 with Proto TRAK control, is quite a considerable departure from the manual milling machine that it replaced. Our workshop has adapted to the new operational challenges and have developed new computer and design based skills to complement their considerable manual expertise.

To find out more email: info@assayofficelondon.co.uk or call: 020 7606 8971
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:44am

Read now... deadline tomorrow!

HCA/QEST APPRENTICESHIPS IN HERITAGE CRAFTS
http://awards.heritagecrafts.org.uk/?p=68

Five apprenticeships of up to £18,000 (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust)

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) Heritage Crafts Apprenticeships are for those who wish to start learning a heritage craft. The Apprenticeships, in association with the Allied Livery Companies, are in five categories – embroidery, stone, paper or textile conservation and culinary arts. The fifth category is open to all crafts.

Applicants are likely to have had some experience and knowledge of the craft, and are aiming to pursue the craft as a career. It is possible for the Apprentices to work with one Master Craftsperson as a trainer and mentor, or to work with various high level craftspeople to learn different, but linked, skills. This Award is being administered by QEST.

Nominations for the award can come from trainee or trainer/employer. Trainers/employers may apply without a specific apprentice in mind, but apprentices must secure the agreement of a trainer/employer. Initial judging and shortlisting will be by the Heritage Crafts Awards judging team, and specialist judges, and final interview, selection and approval will be by QEST committee including specialist judges. There will be HCA representation on this committee. Interviews will be in London and are will take place from 8 to 12 December 2014. The QEST Heritage Crafts Apprentices will be honoured at the HCA Spring Conference. on 9 May 2015.

Specialist judges are:

Stone – Thomas Appleton, Lettercutter and Stonemason
Embroidery – Anne Butcher, Programme Director, Royal School of Needework
Conservation – Susan Bradshaw, Professional Development Manager, Institute of Conservation
Culinary arts – to be confirmed
Closing date for applications for this Award: Monday 1 December 2014, 2pm

To apply
Read the application notes and then download an application form

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:42am

Bespoke Design Competition -awarded by Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery
DATE: 17 October 2014, 09:00 — 16 January 2015, 10:00
The brief is to submit sketches of designs for bespoke jewellery to suit the lifestyle & taste of Corinna Jane, a real life musician & performer who is a rising star.

Imagine you have a budget of £2k for materials. We are looking for creativity and In conjunciton with the Goldsmiths Craft & Design Council. There is a Prize of £1k, which will be awarded at the Ceremony in March. Open to anyone working or studying in the jewellery industry. For more info and to view the video of Corinna performing:

http://www.hkjewellery.co.uk/web/page/goldsmiths-craft-and-design-c...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:35am

Between Art and Nature, Jewellery and Ceramics by Daniel Kruger
EXHIBITION / 11 DEC 2014 - 08 MAR 2015
Hardly any other artist working in jewellery today has come up more freely and uninhibitedly with so many visual worlds of a highly personal kind over the course of a career. Since he grew up in South Africa, he often draws on elements of African folk art but is equally likely to use found objects of all kinds or even to quote historical forms and patterns. He is also committed to the classical canon of forms where he considers it a suitable point of departure for his idiosyncratic transformation into the here and now.

Daniel Kruger’s unusual combinations of materials and his reinterpretations of craft skills, often techniques used in textiles, lend his pieces of jewellery new perspectives that never cease to astonish and are invariably a treat from the aesthetic standpoint. The synchronicity of so many different possibilities of expression may well be the salient characteristic informing his works.

Sabine Epple, Museum for Applied Art Leipzig
http://klimt02.net/events/exhibitions/between-art-nature-daniel-kru...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2014 at 8:13am
Go and see bursaries: latest round of a-n awards launched
The latest round of a-n’s Go and see bursaries – supporting the exchange of knowledge and fostering joint developments between artist-led groups – is now open for applications. Here we explain how to apply and profile some of the successful projects from the previous round.
https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/go-and-see-bursaries-latest-round-of-a-n...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 23, 2014 at 8:29am

ResonanceFM Broadcasts

Making Conversations is a series that originally aired on Resonance104.4fm.

Episode 1: Professor Andrew Prescott, AHRC Digital Transformations Research Fellow, talks to Jon Rogers and Justin Marshall about how using digital technology playfully and creatively and treating it as a craft can humanise our increasingly technocentric world. 
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/makeshift

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 23, 2014 at 8:23am
 

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