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 March 1, 2015 at 12:40pm
Jacqueline Mina OBE Showcase, The Scottish Gallery
4 - 28 March 2015
The Scottish Gallery is delighted to present a showcase of new jewellery from Jacqueline Mina OBE.
"Following a research project I was involved with in 1999 at the Museum of London, in which a Roman sarcophagus and its contents discovered in London’s Spitalfields were being studied..."
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 26, 2015 at 1:37am
Craft in Focus is delighted to announce that we are returning to Richmond from 13-15 November 2015. This was one of our most popular fairs in the craft calendar, both with visitors and exhibitors.

After a four year break due to a massive refurbishment of the buildings and theatre (Queen Charlotte Hall) of the Richmond Adult Community College (RACC) the venue is now able to welcome us back.

Full details and booking forms will be available soon so please ensure you keep an eye on our Facebook page for updates.

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Until we left in 2012 due to the renovations, the RACC has had a contemporary craft fair regularly since the early nineties and our return here is bound to be popular. The venue is less than two minutes from the tube and main line station with a large public car park adjacent to the venue. There is a huge customer base already established in this area. In addition the RACC is now focussing heavily on designer crafts and arts related courses.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 25, 2015 at 1:39am
£6m funding opening soon for registration - 16 March 2015

Innovate UK in partnership with Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will invest up to £6 million in collaborative research and development (R&D) projects.

The aim of this funding competition is to encourage the development of smart products that use a combination of functional, hybrid and multiple materials. More information & Competition registration page.

Competition Briefing & Consortia Building Events


This event is an excellent opportunity for you to receive first hand information about the competition - its scope, application process, key dates etc. as well as meet and network with peers, potential partners, market leaders & innovators in the industry.

List of events: more information & event registration pages

Competition briefing (AMRC, Rotherham)
9 March 2015
Competition briefing (Glasgow University)
18 March 2015
Competition briefing (Riddel Hall, Belfast)
23 March 2015
Competition briefing (Congress Center, London)
25 March 2015
Competition briefing (Life sciences hub, Cardiff)
27 March 2015
For queries about this competition, please contact support@innovateuk.gov.uk. For queries about the events, please contact steve.morris@ktn-uk.org.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Ki​nd Regards,

Andy Sellars
Lead Technologist - High Value Manufacturing

Innovate UK
North Star House
North Star Avenue
Swindon SN2 1UE
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 22, 2015 at 12:36pm
http://www.handmadeinbritain.co.uk/shows/kew/

Handmade at Kew is an exciting new selling event for Contemporary Crafts at the prestigious UNESCO world heritage site, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The show offers makers an inspiring location to exhibit exquisite work of high quality, tradition and heritage to a discerning audience.

This unique collaboration between Handmade in Britain and Kew draws on a wealth of event experience within the sector and an extended network of supporters, advisors and partnerships to deliver an exciting new addition to the craft calendar.

Applications are invited worldwide from individual makers, groups, organisations and galleries working in the following areas: ceramics, jewellery, fashion & textiles, glass, paper, furniture, metalwork, sculpture and interior accessories.

The deadline for applications is 6pm on Thursday 30th April 2015.

Please read the application pack before applying.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 22, 2015 at 12:34pm
KickStart 2015 competition

Are you a jewellery designer looking to boost your brand? Then enter the IJL KickStart competition, open to all emerging designers who have been trading for less than 5 years.

This competition, supported by the BJA, is an excellent way to gain commercial acumen in order to launch brands into the jewellery industry. If you, or another designer is suitable for this initiative, please forward this information to them.

The deadline is fast approaching, so enter now - before Friday 13th March!
http://www.jewellerylondon.com/en/Whats_On/kickstart2015/
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 22, 2015 at 12:33pm
Wearables Opportunity

Innovate UK’s IC tomorrow programme is currently running a Wearable Technology Innovation Contest outlining. There are six challenges areas offering up £35K funding per challenge area to develop and trial solutions with the partners; McLaren and Loughborough University, Disney, glh Hotels, Amey and National Rail, Atos and Queen Mary University London. Successful applicants will also benefit from the relationship with the contest support partners: London College of Fashion and Wearable World.

Application Deadline: Noon 10th March 2015

Full competition brief, guidance document and application, visit IC tomorrow.


Better interactions between people and machines

£500K Feasibility Funding Competition - launching 16th February 2015. For details visit Innovate UK.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 22, 2015 at 12:30pm
FutureEverything is an award-winning innovation lab for digital culture and annual festival, established in Manchester in 1995. For almost 20 years FutureEverything has been exploring the meeting point of technology, society and culture which lies at the heart of the digital debate. Through a community network and regular events it makes connections between thinkers, developers, coders, artists, designers, urbanists and policy makers – inspiring them to experiment and to collaborate in new ways.

The FutureEverything festival brings people together to discover, share and experience new ideas for the future. Pioneering the practice of city-wide ‘festival as laboratory’ it combines a large scale cultural event – encompassing art, music and discussion – with new technology, novel research methods and playful social experiments. It has been named by The Guardian as one of the top ten ideas festivals in the world.

Year round, FutureEverything champions the role of grassroots innovation in the digital creative economy. It creates opportunities for artists, programmers and coders though regular commissions, hackdays and innovation challenges. Through its research it identifies and explores areas in which technological, creative and societal innovation could facilitate change. Through policy work and thought leadership it advocates for the creative use of open data to improve government and empower citizens and communities.

As a world-leader in the digital art sector, FutureEverything commissions artists to illustrate new ideas through creative prototypes, interactive design and participative experiences. It is seen by Arts Council England as “one of the key touch-point organisations” connecting creative communities with academic research, the business sector and policy makers.

Past FutureEverything projects include a data visualisation of the global audience response to London 2012, and work in open data that has led to new policy and infrastructure, such as DataGM, the Greater Manchester Datastore.

Current projects include EUPORIAS, a European Commission project working with the UK’s Met Office and international climate science organisations to foster a new industry of ‘climate services’, the Greater Manchester Data Synchronisation Programme, the Smart Citizen environmental sensing network and Apps for Europe, a series of local, national and EU-wide competitions to create innovative open data businesses.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 22, 2015 at 12:29pm
ACTS OF MAKING
6 makers, 6 moments, 14 days to discover

Acts of Making is a two-week festival that celebrates contemporary craft through performances, live installations and workshops taking place in Bilston, West Midlands, from 14 to 28 February 2015 and in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, from 7 to 21 March 2015.

People are encouraged to capture their Acts of Making experiences on social media using #ActsofMaking. See what's been shared so far.



As well as activity in Bilston Craft Gallery and Shipley Art Gallery - the festival will present craft in unexpected spaces and allow the public to interact and collaborate with internationally-exhibited artists.

Visitors will be able to witness the creation of a patterned carpet made entirely from dust, create their own music via logs and wooden horns, watch a folk procession of Vespa and Lambretta scooters through the streets, become part of an ongoing project exploring our relationship with jewellery, watch a performance piece using un-fired ceramic pots and sculpt sandstone benches by skateboarding on them.

The six artists: Catherine Bertola, Keith Harrison, Owl Project, Mah Rana, Clare Twomey and Richard William Wheater will create moments that are curious and fascinating with many involving collaboration with local communities in Bilston and Gateshead.

Acts of Making is a Crafts Council touring project organised in partnership with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and Bilston Craft Gallery.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 19, 2015 at 11:17am

The Making Process
A Crafts Council and CraftNet North East seminar and networking event
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a47fc1f38d7b79f55813e2e48&i...

Friday 6 March 2015, 1.30-5.00pm
National Glass Centre, Sunderland

Approaches to making can mean many things, with craft makers working in a wide range of ways to produce their work, whether by themselves or as a collaborative process. This afternoon networking event and session will consider different approaches to making, and open up the opportunity for makers and craft sector professionals to discuss the challenges and triumphs this can bring.
 
This event is free but must be pre-booked here
CraftNet is an informal network of meetings, events and exchange to look at and share ways of developing and promoting contemporary craft. All are welcome – from commercial galleries to local authority museums, from organisations and trusts to individual makers, artists and curators.
Programme:

1.30pm: Registration with refreshments
2.00pm: Welcome and Introductions
•    Rosy Greenlees, Executive Director, Crafts Council
•    Izzy MacDonald Booth, National Glass Centre and CraftNet North East Leader

Presentations including Julia Stephenson, Head of Arts, National Glass Centre on commissioning collaborative work and other speakers to be announced shortly, which will be followed by questions and discussion.

4.15pm – 5.00pm: Networking and refreshments, and a chance to see the National Glass Centre's exhibition Magdalene Odundo Transition II

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 18, 2015 at 3:10pm
Classes in Celie's Studio
Located in Beautiful Vermont
Hi All,
I’m writing to announce my line up of home classes for Summer and Fall 2015. I am launching a brand new class called Ornaments and Elements:A Treasury of Techniques to Adorn the Wrist.

SUMMER 2015

June 26-29
Ring Making Techniques


July 10-13
Little Delights: Book Charms


July 17-20
Ornaments and Elements:
A Treasury of Techniques to Adorn the Wrist


FALL 2015
September 18-21
Hollow Forms and Keum Boo


September 25-28
Ornaments and Elements:
A Treasury of Techniques to Adorn the Wrist


October 2-5
Carved Polymer Bracelet with PMC Adornments


Please check my website towards the middle of next week for details about the classes and registration information. If you'd like me to hold your spot now, please email me and I will do so.

I would also like to mention that I have a few seats remaining in my Master Class in June at Bead and Button. The class I'm teaching there is: Story Locket: A Shaped Pendant with a Hinge and a Clasp. For more information or to register, please visit the Bead and Button website.

I hope to see you!
Warmly,
Celie
 

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