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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
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
Started by Rebecca Skeels Oct 11, 2020. 0 Replies 1 Like
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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The second Make Your Mark student event at Goldsmiths’ Hall proved a resounding success.
Held at Goldsmiths’ Hall over two days (Friday 17 and Saturday 18, April) more than 700 students attended. The two days were action-packed with a range of inspiring, relevant talks from leading figures in the industry, including top jeweller, Theo Fennell and Michael Wainwright, MD of Boodles who gave fascinating insights into how to keep your business personal as well as advice as to how to expand and grow in a tough, competitive world. In addition, 29 companies from across the trade, such as diamond and bullion dealers, tool suppliers and organisations including the Hand Engravers Association, had stands where they showcased products, gave demos and offered vital advice and career guidance. The event also provided the opportunity to explore Goldsmiths’ Hall and network in a very informal manner.
Dr Robert Organ, Deputy Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company Assay Office, commented: “We were delighted to be able to facilitate such a vital resource to the next generation of British jewellers and silversmiths. Make Your Mark is now firmly established as an annual event in the Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office’s calendar.”
We would like to thank all staff, exhibitors, speakers and visitors for attending and hope you had a fantastic day and were inspired to develop your careers in the craft.
To find out more about our events, email:events@assayofficelondon.co.uk
http://ccskills.org.uk/careers/advice/article/harriet-vine-tatty-de...
Harriet co-founded Tatty Devine, now an acclaimed handmade fashion jewellery brand. Their laser-cut plastic collections have featured in a number of high fashion magazines and London Fashion Week.
Harriet Vine (left) and Rosie Wolfendon (right) set up Tatty Devine together after meeting at art college.I'm from Rochester in Kent.
I am artistic director and cofounder at Tatty Devine.
Tatty Devine has been going since 1999, when Rosie Wolfenden and I set it up.
We design and make handmade laser-cut acrylic jewellery and accessories. We put out two seasonal collections per year, and we're also known for our name necklaces.
We have two London shops, in Brick Lane and Covent Garden.
I've always been making stuff, not just jewellery, ever since I was little.
"We found bin bags full of leather samples. We made accessories, set up a market stall, and made some money from it."
I used to go to boot fairs a lot, and still do. I'd buy things like wooden bottle openers and make them into necklaces. I was always finding things and stringing them round my neck.
Rosie and I met at art college. When we lived together, we were sharing a house full of boys in bands. They left a lot of plectrums lying around, so I used to harvest them and make them into earrings.
I was really interested in how the perception of an object would change when it was picked up from the floor and became a piece of jewellery.
One night Rosie and I found a lot of bin bags full of leather samples. We took them home, not exactly sure what they would become – but we knew it would be exciting.
We set up a market stall selling leather cuffs made from the leather we had found. When we made some money from it, we took it to a leather shop and bought some zebra print ponyskin to make more wrist cuffs with. I think that was our first proper investment that wasn’t on falafel and whisky!
We made and sold more cuffs and had a super fun time, and by Christmas we were being stocked in Whistles and Harvey Nichols.
Then a stylist saw Rosie wearing a headpiece we'd made and asked about it. She replied, 'My company make these'. The stylist turned out to be from Vogue magazine, and she asked us to bring our collection in the following week!
We didn't have a collection as such at that point, so we made stuff frantically all weekend, and it was featured in Vogue's Millennium issue.
We applied to take part in London Fashion Week, got in, and pulled out all the stops. We turned up with a collection of plated chains with pendants made from plectrums and old dart flights. There was nothing else like it there.....
Come and see us at Art15
We will be presenting exciting recent developments to our products for Galleries, Artists and Collectors at Art15 at Olympia, London on 21 - 23 May.
http://www.artfairslondon.com/index.php/exhibiting/emerge
Artlogic is proud to be an official partner of Art15 and we look forward to seeing you there.
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