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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 4, 2015 at 9:15am

An exhibition exploring new ways of working, sharing and collaborating

Build Your Own is at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery from 3 October 2015 to 3 January 2016.

New times call for new skills but the old ones have an important role too. Build Your Own explores how digital technologies can come together with traditional processes of production and what democratisation of tools will mean for the future. 

Build Your Own features four newly commissioned projects by Will Shannon andAssemble, Linda Brothwell, Rachel Rayns and Raspberry Pi with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and DoES Liverpool and e-NABLE and an inclusive public programme.

Artist Will Shannon and architecture collective Assemble’s new commissionHomework explores living spaces as platforms for experimentation, production and learning. Homework transformed an ordinary house into a series of workshop spaces for domestic making. Community concrete casting workshops were held in the backyard of 48 Cairns Street in Liverpool in the run up to Build Your Own at FACT earlier in the year, with the casting workstation itself installed in the exhibtion.

For Acts of Care: The Lost Letters of Liverpool Linda Brothwell restored missing letters in iconic building signs with a new handcrafted alphabet, featuring hand-pierced brass scrollwork that combined traditional English and Polish Wycinanki designs. The techniques and processes created an act of care in the public space of Liverpool, a positive symbol of the diversity of the city. For The Norwich Edition Brothwell Brothwell proposes a new Act of Care which is inspired by the dyeing and textile heritage of the city and its numerous medieval doorways. Her proposed intervention will be executed in coloured wooden inlay – a juxtaposition of technique (dyeing) with material (wood). 

The project Neurotic Machines by Rachel Rayns developed with the Raspberry Pi Foundation shows us how a Raspberry Pi greenhouse can work as an alternative gardening system.Through Neurotic Machines Rayns encourages people of all ages to learn more about both the process of growing plants as well as computer programming.  A purpose-built garden is installed in the gallery, teaching us how computing can be used in unexpected, creative and rewarding contexts.

DoESLiverpool, a co-working space in the heart of Liverpool and the newly-formed Norwich Hackspace present an iteration of the open-source project e-NABLE, a global network of passionate volunteers using 3D printing to make prosthetic hands. Inspired by a local family who used DoESLiverpool's workshop to print hand parts, DoES has installed a ‘production line’ for prosthetic hands. 

 

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/build-your-own/?utm_sour...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 4, 2015 at 9:08am

engage International Conference 2015
http://www.axisweb.org/features/news-and-views/in-focus/engage-inte...

The engage International Conference takes place 19 & 20 November in Glasgow and we're looking for someone to blog from the event
A Different Game: Young people working with art and artists
The 2015 engage International Conference
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall & venues across Glasgow, 19 & 20 November 2015
Fringe events across Glasgow 18, 19 & 21 November 2015
#engConf15
Will you be at the engage Conference 2015*? Would you like to contribute your opinions, sum up and create conversations online?
Axisweb is offering a commission (fee: £150) for someone to blog from the conference, picking up on the discussions and themes from each day and inspiring others to join the debate.
We’re open to how you would like to record your experiences, be it words, photos, videos, Instagram takeover, or perhaps you would prefer to draw your ideas and impressions of the conference. The outcomes will be shared and published via Axisweb.
Fee
£150
How to apply
Complete the expressions of interest form by 12pm Monday 12 October 2015.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 4, 2015 at 9:02am

JAM
http://www.icontact-archive.com/E14a4b-ENs5gNWtGCmN_48T_i05QNh0F?w=4
Machi de Waard - flavour of the month

Machi is our in-house jeweller at Jam. This new collection is a result of months of design work. Come and talk to Machi about her jewellery on Tuesdays.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 4, 2015 at 8:58am

ACJ MEMBERS
Annual General Meeting – Friday 30th October, 3.00pm, London
You are cordially invited to the 18th Annual General Meeting of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery
on Friday 30th October, 2015 upstairs at the Charterhouse Bar in Clerkenwell. Location, map and travel info
can be found here:
http://www.charterhousebar.co.uk/travel
After this brief meeting, we will visit 'A Sense of Jewellery' at the nearby Goldsmiths' Centre. This exhibition
brings together outstanding examples of modern jewellery by forty artists and designers made in Britain over
the past forty years. Opening at the Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell, London, as part of the London Design
Festival, the exhibition sets out to rediscover British jewellery design and celebrates the quality of design
thinking and material innovation which has emerged from independent studios in this period.
http://goldsmiths-centre.org/whats-on/exhibitions/a-sense-of-jewell...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on October 3, 2015 at 9:29am

Metalsmith David Bacharach and jeweler Valerie Hector are compiling a book, "Craftspeople In Their Own Words." This book will be all about you—the community of artists working in craft disciplines who make their living working in their studios and selling their work at craft shows.

Do you have a personal story about the craft show community? Or some great photos? Please share your stories and photos for this book. Bacharach and Hector are generously giving any money generated from book sales back to the community as a donation to CERF+.

Send your stories and photos to valeriehector@sbcglobal.net or mail@bacharachmetals.com

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on September 30, 2015 at 4:15pm

new opportunity at Craftspace for a recent graduate. The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursary programme is a talent development initiative which will identify gifted recent graduates who would otherwise not be in a financial position to work for free in order to get a foot on the career ladder in the arts. The opportunity is open to young people who have graduated in the last 3 years, there are also additional criteria– it is a six month paid placement at Craftspace in Birmingham – more detail is provided below.

This new role at Craftspace is devised to explore the possibility of a hybrid curator/creative producer who can develop a range of skills, knowledge and networks which facilitate collaborations and connections between contemporary craft and range of other art-forms; performance, film, animation, sound art, installation, digital media, time and image based media and public art.

Creative Producer Placement
6 months full time fixed term contract.
Salary £15,500 p.a. (pro rata)
Based at Craftspace in Birmingham

Craftspace is seeking candidates for a 6 month, entry level placement as part of the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme. Appointment to commence January 2016.

This new role is devised to explore the possibility of a hybrid curator/creative producer who can develop a range of skills, knowledge and networks which facilitate collaborations and connections between contemporary craft and range of other art-forms; performance, film, animation, sound art, installation, digital media, time and image based media and public art. This role is positioned within our Craftspace Curates programme commissioning or presenting interdisciplinary work that explores craft in an expanded field. By this we mean the interdisciplinary, collaborative and unconventional ways in which stories about and perspectives on craft and making can be presented to a wider range and type of audience.

Candidates will be seeking to acquire enhanced skills and knowledge in critical thinking, project management, effective collaboration and partnership negotiations. You will work as a member of our team and will gain understanding of commissioning models, practical cross art-form production, marketing and fundraising as well as evaluation methodologies, impact measurement and audience development.

The Creative Producer will access a network of cross art-form organisations, have opportunities to initiate partnerships and maximize opportunities as a stepping stone for continued creative practice in the cultural sector.

This post is offered as part of the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Programme, aimed specifically at recent graduates whose circumstances mean they would not otherwise be in a position to develop their skills and CV through unpaid work experience. The Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme is run by Jerwood Charitable Foundation with the support of Garfield Weston Foundation, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust.

There are academic and financial criteria that candidates are required to fulfil. For information about how to apply visit: www.craftspace.co.uk or email e.larkinson@craftspace.co.uk for a Job Description. Tel: 0121 608 6668

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on September 29, 2015 at 3:23pm

one day Imprinted Silver Rings course with Sarah Macrae which will be here at Making Space on Saturday 5th December. Could be the perfect time to make something for Christmas !

It’s suitable for all levels of experience and we have 10 places only so booking is essential. Give us a call if you’d like any more information or to reserve your place on the course .

Kind regards
Kathy

Kathy Williams
Administration & Operations Coordinator



Making Space
Bishopstoke Road, Leigh Park, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 5BN
p: 02392 472491
e: admin@makingspace.org
Website: http://www.makingspace.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MakingSpace_Org
Facebook: Search Making Space

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on September 29, 2015 at 3:19pm

http://creativechoices.cmail2.com/t/y-l-dydrkkd-jrltdiair-q/
Jewellery merchandiser
Jewellery merchandisers ensure that each branch of a retail chain has the right amount of stock.
Find out what skills and qualifications are needed for this job, plus entry routes.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on September 27, 2015 at 12:35pm

HAND ENGRAVERS FO GREAT BRITIAN

EVENTS COMING UP IN 2016

Over the coming weeks we will be discussing a whole raft of potential events for 2016. We look forward to getting back to you with fuller plans in the next newsletter, but meanwhile, here is a taster of some of the exciting ideas that are up for discussion.

- An international meeting for the next Malcolm Appleby
symposium in 2017.
- A VIP reception to celebrate the opening of the Clockmakers’
Museum in the V&A.
- Participation with the Contemporary British Silversmiths
in a major silver event to coincide with the CBS/V&A/
Goldsmiths’ Centre's year-long programme of events which
start in March 2016.
- A possible private tour of the V&A's Silver Collection.
- Hand Engravers Association meetings in Liverpool, North
Yorkshire and the Kent/Sussex/Surrey area.
- The HEA's involvement with gun/country shows in 2016.
Our mailing address is:
The Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain
Studio 23, Centre Space
6 Leonard Lane
Bristol, BS1 1EA
United Kingdom

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on September 27, 2015 at 12:32pm

More Kinky Metals @ Dutch National Steel Day
(October 1, De Kromhouthal, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

During Dutch National Steel Day held on October 1st in Amsterdam, Materia will be present with the exhibition “More Kinky Metals”. This exhibition will once again be completely dedicated to exceptional, innovative and inspirational metals.

An enormous diversity of metals can be seen in this Materia exhibition. Following the success of last year’s exhibition, Materia will be brining 70 new and innovative metal materials scouted by our experts. Knitted, woven, molded, foamed, recycled, embossed, recycled and several variants of 3D printed metal with be on show!

Curious about the technical and aesthetic inspirations metals have to offer? In short: come to the “More Kinky Metals” exhibition and see for yourself! http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5844fd3f408710a9183a70477&i...

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