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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 May 3, 2015 at 7:15am
Open Studio Event 
Oneness Project Launch Party!
This Sunday  May 3, 2015  11:00 am - 4:00 pm 
 167 Caine Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112

We'll have appetizers, refreshments, and....

VIEW:  
The Japanese Shin Torah Crown is coming along splendidly!  See the piece in process, and check out our metal arts studio, where the art is made.  We are getting ready to solder the crown all together, and would love your blessings and well wishes before we begin. Also, enjoy our deck with a 
great view of San Francisco-- fog permitting!

SHOP:  
My husband David Casella and I will have our art out for sale.  Don't miss our locally handmade, meaningful and beautiful gifts for Mother's Day and beyond.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 3, 2015 at 7:13am
CRANBROOK MARKS BERTOIA AT 100 WITH JEWELRY EXHIBITION
Gabriel Craig

Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia
March 24–November 29, 2015
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
For those interested in the history of 20th-century design, the name Harry Bertoia should be a familiar one. Bertoia’s humble beginnings as a 15-year-old Italian immigrant were soon eclipsed by his ambitious and prodigious work as an art student, metalsmith, and eventually educator at a succession of Detroit-based art institutions in the years bracketing World War II.[1] While Bertoia’s mature career focused on designing for industry and creating sculpture, his jewelry work—made almost exclusively during his early career, 1935–1950—was canonized by Toni Greenbaum in her 1996 book Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940–1960.

It is those early years that are the focus of Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia, the first exhibition devoted to Bertoia’s jewelry. Cranbrook Art Museum collections fellow Shelley Selim has assembled 31 pieces of jewelry, spanning Bertoia’s career from his earliest and most tightly controlled technical work as a student at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts to his later aural works made in the 1960s. Following exhibition design strategies established by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bent, Cast & Forged is presented in a quiet, contemplative, and dimly lit basement gallery at the Cranbrook Art Museum with narrowly focused pin spotlights that draw attention to the lustrous metal objects on display. It is clear from the selection of works that Bertoia’s jewelry was a vehicle for the exploration of form and line in space. Yet, the exhibition features several works, particularly those lent from the collections of Kim and Al Eiber and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which seem to transcend quick gestural studies of abstracted organic forms. These standout pieces are elegantly resolved compositions that combine the artist’s interest in the élan vital (vital impulse) of European abstract expressionism with his constructivist and modernist design explorations. No doubt this alloy was amalgamated in the crucible of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the late 1930s and 40s alongside Charles Eames, Ray (Kaiser) Eames, Eero Saarinen, and other notable figures from the same remarkable period at the Academy.
http://www.gabrielcraigmetalsmith.com/
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 3, 2015 at 5:20am

What fabulous submissions this year for Sleight of Hand, and congrats to all of those selected!

Selected:
Dauvit    Alexander
Lynne    Bartlett
Jessica    Briggs
Elizabeth    Campbell
Dani    Fahey
Caroline    Finlay
Shelby    Fitzpatrick
Gill    Forsbrook
Annette    Gerritse
Masako    Hamaguchi
Susi    Hines
Polly    Horwich
Terry    Hunt
Stephanie    Johnson
Emily    Kidson
Marion    Lebouteiller
Sarah    Maccrae
Jane    Moore
Viktoria    Muntzker
Kirsty    Pearson
Elizabeth    Shaw
Su    Trindle
Nicola    Turnbull
Susan     Wainwright
Karen    Westland
Maria    Whetman
Anthony    Wong
Trish    Woods
Anastasia    Young
 Thanks to all who entered a proposal

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 28, 2015 at 3:38am

COLLECT 2015 Talks Programme Monday 11 MAY
 
11.15-12.00
Beyond Craft
Revealing how craft skills can generate innovation in other industries. Textile artist Karina Thompson and designer Chloe Meineck share their experiences of working in the fields of medical wearable technology and the internet of things.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/listings/collect-2015-beyond-craft
 
12.30-13.15
Careers in Craft
A look at some of the many sources and advice and support for those considering careers in craft and creativity. With John McMahon, Crafts Council Head of Learning, Creative Choices, Creative Skillset and The Creative Society.  
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/listings/collect-2015-careers-in-craft
 
14.30-15.15
Professional Development for Early Career Makers
How can graduates and other new craft artists build lasting, fulfilling careers for themselves? Katia Stewart, Crafts Council Talent Development Manager, discusses with makers Paula Ortega and Alex McCarthy.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/listings/collect-2015-professional-...
 
Students can receive discounted entry to COLLECT on Monday 11th May for £7 (or £8 including a donation). Tickets can be purchased on the door, or in advance online:  http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/listings/collect-2015-careers-in-craft
 
Please circulate this to any of your students that you feel may be interested in visiting COLLECT 2015.
 
Best wishes,
Katia Stewart
Talent Development Manager

The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects
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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 27, 2015 at 3:16pm
Artists Reception: Friday May 1, 6-8pm

San Francisco’s Velvet da Vinci is proud to present Stonecutting, an exhibition of work by New Zealand artists Craig McIntosh + Joe Sheehan. The show will run from May 1 – 31, 2015. An opening reception with the artists will take place on Friday, May 1, from 6-8 pm.
Craig McIntosh’s most recent series of brooches are hand carved and fabricated from Pakohe (argillite), a material rich with metaphor for New Zealand’s cultural and natural landscape. A highly indurated sedimentary rock, hardened through intense compression and heat, Pakohe is often described as “basement rock,” as it literally represents the material New Zealand is built from and upon. Calling to mind visions of topographical maps and aerial nature photographs, McIntosh’s process channels the aesthetic and symbolic implications of his material, resulting in fractured, layered, and laminated compositions. According to the artist:

“The brooches… are abstract forms arrived at through the making process, and the associations with landscape and boundary are the result of thinking through making. When I’m working with stone I take the perspective that I am in some way are some way working with land, or can be seen as working with place, or even working possibly with here…. Landscape is a human construct, it is the way we see and interpret the physical environment. The division and breaking up of land into the idea of a system of human made spaces has shaped our environment. So for me it is therefore critical, when using stone in a contemporary jewelry context to have an understanding of both identity and boundary, jewelry can not be made concerning anything else until this is considered.”

McIntosh earned a Bachelors of Visual Arts and Masters Degree from the Dunedin School for Art. His works have exhibited in Japan, New Zealand, and Germany. Highlighted shows include WUNDERRUMA, a touring exhibition that debuted at the 2014 Schmuck conference. The artist presently lives and works in Dunedin.

Joe Sheehan’s series The Quick and the Dead is a collection of remote controls meticulously carved from stone. Presented as artifacts in the style of classic typological museum display, the work takes the form of whole units and broken pieces, calling to mind futuristic archaeological documentations of contemporary culture. Arranged by similarity and type, the series poses questions about contemporary methods in museum studies, addressing notions of preservation and historiography from a global perspective. Working with New Zealand native stones such as greywacke, basalt, and argillite, Sheehan shines a light on the heavy historic symbolism of each material from a South Pacific cultural context, referencing prominent museum collections of Toki: stone adzes made by Maori and other Polynesian cultures. In 2013, New Zealand based Curator Anna-Marie White wrote:

“Within the context of museums, Toki are afforded a higher status than equivalent Pakeha material culture and regarded as evidence of an extinct way of life. Moreover the story of Pakeha culture (European New Zealand Identity) is largely defined by objects of rarity and distinctiveness, which has contributed to an ambiguous understanding of Pakeha cultural identity in comparison to Maori. The Quick and the Dead works to redress this imbalance, suggesting that everyday objects are better and more valid representations of contemporary New Zealand culture.

This notion of ‘value’ is consistent with Sheehan’s larger project as an artist: to contribute museum-quality Pakeha taonga to national art discourse… By making this reference, Sheehan suggests that these sculptures exist in the tenuous space between functional object and symbolic artifact.”
http://www.velvetdavincigallery.com/current/
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 27, 2015 at 6:50am
@GalioJewellers: @CraftsCouncilUK We launched fab Design Competition #win Shaun Leane placement & have winning piece made too! Pls RT http://t.co/i1w9iRrHVL
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 26, 2015 at 10:41am
ART JEWELRY FORUM ANNOUNCES TIMING CHANGE
FOR 16th ANNUAL ARTIST AWARD

Top international prize in jewelry will open for applications in September 2015





Attai Chen Benedikt Fisher Lauren Kalman Heejoo Kim Seulgi Kwon

Mill Valley, California, USA, April 20, 2015--Ambitious young jewelry artists of the world will want to take note of the change in the next annual Art Jewelry Form (AJF) Artist Award cycle.

The AJF Artist Award just concluded its 2014 cycle last month, naming Seulgi Kwon winner from a competitive pool of 123 applicants representing 27 countries. Kwon and the four finalists made an exciting showing at Munich Jewelry Week 2015, generously hosted by Platina Gallery, as part of the Frame section of Schmuck--Germany's renowned, international art jewelry fair. Judged on the basis of their entries' originality, depth of concept, and quality of craftsmanship, the four AJF Artist Award finalists were: Attai Chen, Benedikt Fischer, Lauren Kalman, and Heejoo Kim.


2014 AJF Artist Award Winner: Seulgi Kwon
AJF encourages jewelers under the age of 35 to mark their calendars now, as there will be some changes to the timing of the next AJF Artist Award cycle. In order to more closely align with Munich Jewelry Week 2016, the 2015 AJF Artist Award cycle will open the application process in September 2015, with a deadline of November 15, 2015. The finalists will be announced in early 2016.

Art Jewelry Forum, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the creation, study, and appreciation of art jewelry, remains committed to acknowledging promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of a jewelry artist through the AJF Artist Award. Now in its 16th year, the Award will once again provide a cash prize to the winner and the opportunity for the winner and four finalists to exhibit their work with an AJF supporter gallery in the Frame section of Schmuck during Munich Jewelry Week in March 2016.

Information about the purpose of the award, entry criteria, application requirements, and deadline will be available on AJF's website in August/September 2015.

_________________


Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is a non-profit organization established in 1997
to advocate for the field of contemporary art jewelry.
We do so through education, discourse, appreciation and support for the field.

www.artjewelryforum.org
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 26, 2015 at 10:23am
WEEKLY NEWS

Over the past couple of years Andrew has been asked about hydraulic presses, where to get hold of them and how to use them with the dies and cutters. If you have been following At The Bench on Facebook, you will have seen that Andrew has recently been sent a hydraulic press from Kevin Potter in the USA and several dies to play with. So over the next couple of months, Andrew will be having a 'play' and filming like crazy on using the press and dies.

Andrew has also discovered a UK supplier of dies made for the hydraulic press that he will be showing you in a month or so's time. He is just awaiting a nice big parcel to arrive before he shows you what he can do with the press.

Also the brand new double ended polishing motor is on its way to At The Bench HQ as we type this newsletter too. It's Durstons latest model to be released. So Andrew will also be filming a product review on that too.

Interested in embracing new technology? Andrew has had the latest Pulse Welder from Lampert on trial for the past year. It is not cheap technology but it is an awesome piece of kit, well worth it for every busy manufacturing and jobbing jeweller. Watch out for a series of films using the Lampert PUK welder coming soon.

A busy time filming is on the cards for Andrew over the next few months so keep watching for some exciting films in the Summer and into Autumn.

Enjoy your jewellery making and have a great weekend.

My kindest regards
The At The Bench Team
http://www.atthebench.com
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 25, 2015 at 2:13am
Artlogic is proud to sponsor London Gallery Day which returns this weekend and brings together contemporary art spaces in EC1, WC1, and N1.

This central area of London has quietly but steadily gathered a strong presence of commercial and not-for-profit galleries which are extending opening times on Saturday 25 April (noon to 8 pm) and opening their doors on Sunday 26 (noon to 6 pm). On both days galleries will host a programme of events, artist talks, and tours of the exhibitions.

We hope to see you there!

www.londongalleryday.com
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on April 23, 2015 at 12:17pm

Crafts Council's Injection programme: Call for applications

Injection is the Crafts Council’s business development programme for mid-career and established craft practices; applications are now open for the 2015 intake.
 
The programme provides makers with the tools to develop their aspirations for growth and embed sustainability and resilience within their business practice, through workshops, mentoring and networking.

Injection is a year-long programme which includes five full day workshops, a two day residential, four networking events and up to nine hours mentoring support. Individuals are selected by the Crafts Council following interviews and participation in the programme costs £270, which can be paid in instalments.

Closing date for applications: Noon Monday 18 May 2015
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/injection/?utm_source=Cr...

 

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