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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 14, 2014 at 12:48pm
Dear Customers, Colleagues, and Friends,

I am pleased to announce that I am curating jewelry for San Francisco
Bay Area clothing designer, Babette. After founding and working at
Velvet da Vinci for 22 years, it was time for a change and I could
not be more excited.

Babette is based in Oakland, California where all her clothing is
designed and fabricated. She has eight boutiques of her own around
the country that exclusively sell her work, though you may also
spot her clothing at select high-end boutiques.

We currently have jewelry available online at:
http://www.shopbabette.com/
(where we will be adding pieces regularly, so look often!) and in
Babette’s San Francisco, Minneapolis, and New York City stores, with
plans to expand to all eight. All of our jewelry is beautifully
crafted by U.S. artists in their studios around the country.

Please stop by a nearby store when you can to view the unique
selection of jewelry. We have jewelry trunk shows on the horizon for
the Babette stores that don’t have jewelry yet.

Since this is the only email I will be sending you, if you would like
to stay in touch and learn about this exciting new venture, look for
"Join Our Email List..." at the bottom of the ShopBabette.com home
page and sign up to receive our emails.

Looking forward to seeing you soon,

--Elizabeth Shypertt
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 14, 2014 at 12:46pm
http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk

Dates for your diaries

7th March: Next Public Open Day
2nd May: Public Open Day
23rd - 27th June: Festival of Stuff
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 14, 2014 at 12:38pm
AJF

SEULGI KWON WINS ART JEWELRY FORUM ARTIST AWARD

Mill Valley, California, USA--We are pleased to announce that Seulgi Kwon has been selected to receive the 2014 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award for an emerging jeweler. Kwon was chosen from 123 entries representing 27 countries. She will receive a $7500 cash award, and her work, along with that of the other 4 finalists, will be featured by Platina Gallery at Handwerksmesse, which takes place in Munich in March 2015. Kwon will also receive a one-year professional membership to AJF and will serve as a juror for the 2015 Artist Award competition.

The goal of the AJF Artist Award is to acknowledge promise, innovation, and individuality in developing jewelers. This year's competition was open to art jewelry makers 35 years of age or younger who were not enrolled in a professional training program; submitted work had to have been completed between 2012 and 2014. The jurors were Sooyeon Kim, jewelry artist and winner of the 2013 award; Carin Reinders, director of the Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands; and Karen Rotenberg, founder and director of Alianza Contemporary Craft and a collector of contemporary jewelry. Criteria used in judging were originality, depth of concept, and quality of craftsmanship.

Kwon uses the theme of plant images to express meanings and symbols of memories of her daily life. Plants change their form at each stage of growth: seeds sprout, spread roots, and bloom. This course of change gives rise to unpredictable organisms and organic forms. Kwon's work actively expresses the organic movements of plants, with their mysterious colors and constantly changing forms, creating texture with the materiality and transparency of silicone. Kwon tries to express the living in her work, so most of her pieces have rich colors and unique shapes.

Carin Reinders stated, "Seulgi uses silicone, glass, and pigments with great beauty and poetic transparency. The brooch A Soft Rain has the softness and the vulnerability of the first soft and refreshing drops. Deep in the Night gives the awareness of a night in the jungle with the great emerald green stone, glowing in the dark. Seulgi's work has great poetic power and classical elements, but is constructed in a very contemporary way." Sooyeon Kim commented, "Because of Seulgi's deep understanding of silicone as a material, it seems like she has power over the material. This would not be possible without ceaseless study. Her exotic forms and bright colors have a special fascination." Ms. Rotenberg added, "Seulgi demonstrates an innovative and beautiful use of material; her work is visually compelling."

Kwon earned a bachelor's (2007) and a master's (2010) of fine arts metalwork and jewelry at Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea.

More images and full caption information are available on our website.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 14, 2014 at 12:33pm
The Apple Watch is the latest wearable internet technology with the capability to monitor the user’s heart rate and activity levels. As our bodies dissolve further into the network, are these devices just tracking our health or do they herald something darker?
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, is smiling and clapping like everyone else. The room is enraptured. Heartbeats raised, skin prickling in an ecstatic devotion for this moment of revelation. Everyone is glossy, as though the excitement within them is generating an electrostatic glow. Around the world thousands of tiny electronic pulses record and respond to Cook’s words. Data packets flowing through the nervous system of the internet. Biology, technology and electricity combined in one crackling moment of collective connection.
He, they (and we) are welcoming into the world the long-anticipated Apple Watch, the company’s first piece of wearable tech. The language Cook uses promises smoothness, integration, monitoring and connectivity. And deep in our digital psyche these ideas stir us. Yes please, we say, faster, deeper, more. That’s why everyone’s clapping. Not only for the thing itself but for the idea that it represents.
http://www.iconeye.com/design/features/item/11285-wearable-technolo...’s%20Whitney%20Museum
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 14, 2014 at 12:30pm
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 14, 2014 at 12:27pm
Application & Selection
Handmade in Britain are offering the unique opportunity to apply to exhibit as part of a group stand at the Vivre Côté Sud Fair. Applications are now invited from designer–makers of contemporary craft, who produce their work in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We accept applications from most disciplines across fashion and interiors - please check the application pack for details.
http://www.handmadeinbritain.co.uk/assets/Cote-Sud/Application-Pack...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 14, 2014 at 12:24pm
Glass | Ceramics | Jewellery | Textiles | Metal & Wood | Print | Design


Not long until...
...the jolly old fellow in a bright red suit comes down our chimneys with gifts galore to place under the tree.

But, if you’re still pondering what to get a certain someone, then take a look at our unique jewellery selection. Every piece is original and handmade – you won’t find that on the high street!

To make it easier, we’ve hand picked some beautiful pieces that are in stock right now. Click on any of the images below to see all our jewellery in that price bracket, in our online store.

Get him, or her, an original and handmade piece of jewellery from our collection and make your special someone, feel extra special this Christmas.

Late night shopping...

http://jam-eton.co.uk
We're open until 8pm on Thursday 18th December, too.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 5, 2014 at 2:00pm
V&A this weekend
Posted on: Friday, 5 December 2014 19:58:11 o'clock GMT
Young People's Events
When:Sat 6 December 2014 11:00
Where:Learning Centre
SPECIAL YOUNG PEOPLE'S EVENT: Free event for 16-24 year olds interested in finding out more about working in the creative industries.

See the full programme of events by clicking on the link, http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/3763/making-it-careers-in-art-an...

11.00-17.00

Free, drop-in


Posted by: Rebecca Skeels
Posted to: _School of Crafts Postgraduates Farnham 14/15
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 2, 2014 at 3:50am

Open PRESS Release :   Limited Edition Jewellery event for Limited Time at National Museums Scotland
 
A special weekend display of digitally crafted jewellery at National Museums Scotland by Edinburgh College of Art Jewellery students, 13th – 14th December 2014
 
‘LTD Edition’ an undergraduate 3rd year jewellery digital design and batch production jewellery project forming part of the 4 year BA Hons Jewellery and Silversmithig department at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh.  Established in 2009 by Stephen Bottomley, the department’s head, it is now in its sixth year with eca staff* working in partnership with Weston Beamor Ltd and Domino a UK leading jewellery industry casting and design company in Birmingham.
 
This successful long running craft and digital making project was presented in the recent paper ‘ Beneath the Surface / eca Digital-craft borderlands in education’ Bottomley/Gray/Mann, at the 2014 conference 2014 “All Makers Now?”, Craft values in 20th century production, conference, Falmouth University, UK
http://www.autonomatic.org.uk/allmakersnow/project/1256/
 
*eca staff include Stephen Bottomley, Susan Cross, Jenny Gray, Gary Grobler and Katherine Hinton, jewellery design and Douglas Bryden & Richard Collins CAD/CAM, Mary Asiedu- Graphic design packaging
 
The exhibition runs 1st – 4th December 2014   10:00 – 16:00
Hunter Building, Room Q25, Edinburgh College of Art   / University of Edinburgh, Laurison Place campus, EH3 9DF
 
http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-design/news-events/limited-editio...
 
This year the show will also be displayed at a knowledge exchange public event at the National Museums Scotland 13th – 14th December 2014 10:00 – 17:00  Learning Centre, Lvl 2, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh

Contacts
 
Student Press team:
MCINTOSH Esther  s0841768@sms.ed.ac.uk
HIGGINS Holly s1345481@sms.ed.ac.uk
ARCHER Izzy s1347090@sms.ed.ac.uk
 
National Museums Scotland
Lee McCulley Adult Learning Officer
Learning & Programmes National Museums Scotland
Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Tel: +44 (0) 131 247 4439    Email: L.McCulley@nms.ac.uk
 
Weston Beamor
Ed Hole
Head of CAD Design & 3D Printing
3-8 Vyse Street, Birmingham, B18 6LT
T: 0121 678 4131 ed.hole@westonbeamor.co.uk
 
Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh
Stephen Bottomley MPhil RCA
Programme Director Jewellery and Silversmithing
School of Design, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF
s.bottomley@ed.ac.uk

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on December 1, 2014 at 4:32pm
ART JEWELRY FORUM COMMISSIONS LIMITED-EDITION PIN FROM
NOTABLE ARTIST EMIKO OYE

Brooch is the fifth in a collectible series designed by prominent art jewelers

Mill Valley, California, USA--Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the creation, study, and appreciation of art jewelry, is pleased to announce that it has commissioned American jeweler emiko oye to create a limited-edition pin for the organization. The pins will be distributed exclusively to all new and renewing AJF supporters in 2015 as a supporter benefit.

Each brooch will consist of a base of seven LEGO® affixed together permanently, and will have a magnetized clasp. The presentation box will also contain eight to 10 additional toy bricks in a single color, which recipients can use any way they like to build their own configurations atop the base.

oye explains that because she used as many recycled LEGO® as possible for AJF's pins, recipients will not receive the same components, so "everybody's really is unique." The artist hopes that pin owners will take photos of their constructions and post them on social media. "I'm really excited to see what people will come up with," she says, "and if they'll add pieces from their own LEGO® stash to create something truly personal. I'm encouraging people to bring a sense of play into their daily life, and no matter who you are, you're guaranteed to have a successful result." Because of the magnetized clasp, recipients will be able to display the brooch on magnetic surfaces such as refrigerators or message boards. "Why not enjoy looking at it in your home when you're not wearing it?" asks oye.

oye has long worked with recycled media, and with LEGO® since 2006. She has discovered similarities between the bricks and jewelry. Both have the ability to elicit story-telling from their users; both gain status as family heirlooms and increase in value with age; and both have dedicated collectors. By incorporating this unexpected but familiar material in her jewelry, oye creates an immediate engagement with the work.

Art historian, writer, and curator Liesbeth den Besten is a member of AJF's publication committee. "The use of repurposed materials is a popular crafting technique, born out of need, political aims, or fun. AJF is proud to present emiko's AJF pin that invites the user to re-arrange and play again with the toy that many of us enjoyed as a child, creating a pin after your own taste," she says.

oye makes both production jewelry and large, conceptual, one-of-a-kind work, but she wanted this design to draw from both realms. Given AJF's aims for this year's pin, oye was the immediate choice to design it. "AJF's board wanted to kick up their community participation with a supporter pin with possible interactive aspects and tech overtones, but still handmade. Supporters can get creative with this starter pin," says AJF board chair Susan Cummins.

AJF wishes to thank the following: Doug Bucci for making all the arrangements; Barbara Berlin and Barbara Waldman, art jewelry collectors and long-time supporters of AJF, for funding the project; and Natalya Brooks at Print Group for donating the packaging, which she helped design, for the pins.

While there are five different versions of this brooch available, AJF is not able to honor requests for specific colors. Please take this as an opportunity to meet other supporters of AJF, through social media sites like Facebook and at social events like exhibition openings, to swap brooches and meet each other. We hope this creates a lively exchange among like-minded supporters of AJF.


ABOUT THE ARTIST
emiko oye has shown her work in more than 75 exhibitions across the globe. She has been published in American Craft, Metalsmith, and Jewelry Artist, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Craft.
 

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