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 November 30, 2015 at 3:39pm
Exploring Curious Materials

Date: Mon 7th Dec
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Location: Institute of Making, Malet Place, UCL, London, WC1E 7JE (Map)

This is a free event but space is limited. Booking opens tomorrow at 1pm.

Are you interested in getting hands-on with unusual but commercially available materials like conductive and thermochromic inks, low-melt and impact protection polymers and shape-memory metals to see how they might inform your design practice?

Do you want to learn more about the material at the heart of the Light.Touch.Matters research project, which responds to touch with luminescence?
http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/detail/exploring-curious...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2015 at 3:28pm
Holts News

With Christmas just around the corner, we are really getting into the festive mood here at Holts Academy.

We kicked things off on 17 Nov with the Hatton Garden Christmas lights official switch on, a glitzy event featuring music, VIP's and live demonstrations!

Organised by the Hatton Garden Business Improvement District (BID), the event, compered by Radio 4’s Zeb Soanes, featured acts such as the St Albans School Choir, Central School of Ballet, Eden Roxx from the Camden Roundhouse and St Etheldreda’s Choir.

Some 30,000 LED lights were switched on by renowned jewellery designer Shaun Leane at 6pm.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2015 at 3:25pm
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2015 at 3:21pm
CAD Workshop Series - Stud Earrings

Date: Thursday 3rd December 2015
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Cost: £25 per person

Venue: Seminar Room at the Goldsmiths’ Centre

In this two-hour session, Simply Rhino will show the relevance of CAD to the jeweller or goldsmith, and how it can build on traditional skills and knowledge. Become familiar with additional techniques, using both Rhino v5 and RhinoGold software, for the 3D modelling of rub-over set stud earrings, with surrounding haloes. This practical workshop is suitable for beginners to CAD who have experience of the goldsmithing trade. In partnership with Simply Rhino.

For more info and to book, please click here, call 020 7566 7650 or click here to email the Box Office.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2015 at 3:18pm
Making sense of makerspaces

The RSA’s new report attempts to make sense of makerspaces – why they are emerging, what impact they are having on their users and communities, and what challenges they are likely to face in the future. The report shows how the emergence of makerspaces reflects a nation increasingly enthusiastic about making, embracing a wide range of technologies and objectives in their making and championing new ways of living.
Report: https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/reports/o...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 30, 2015 at 3:11pm
Please find below call for papers for our forthcoming symposium. Please feel free to circulate across your networks and apologies for cross-posting.



CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Jewellery: Performing the Body
Keynote Speaker: Di Mainstone
Thursday March 17th 2016
Birmingham City University




flockOmania (image credit: Christian Kipp)

ABOUT: the CALL OUT
We invite speakers to take part in the Beyond Jewellery symposium to coincide with the exhibition flockOmania2, an exhibition and live performance event which crosses boundaries between jewellery and dance (please see attachment and web link for further information). Located within the field of contemporary art jewellery and with a keynote presentation from Di Mainstone, this symposium explores the relationships between sculptural objects, the body and performance. In doing so, Beyond Jewellery offers a space to interrogate and reflect upon interdisciplinary projects interested in the body as a meeting place or nexus for collaboration.
Proposal submissions might include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
· OBJECTS – embodied objects, wearable objects in motion and in performance, artefact as performance, experiments with scale and materiality
· BODY – notions of the post-human body, inter-subjectivity in performance, the mediated body and haptic knowing
· COLLABORATION – creative partnerships, co-creating and emerging process orientated making practices
· BOUNDARIES – interdisciplinary adventures, blurring boundaries and disciplinary rule-breaking
· PERFORMANCE – composing the object, activating objects through performance, sonic landscapes, sites of sensorial investigation and temporal relationships
· AUDIENCE – engagement and interaction, performative making, playful encounters and audience as co-creators

The symposium will offer a space for discussion, engagement, debate and experimentation, and aims to initiate dialogue around the role of the body in creative practice. We invite proposals from scholars, artists and research students in a range of modes and formats including: 20 minute papers, curated panels, artists talks, film, performance lectures, 10 min lightning talks, and performative interventions.

Further information can be found here http://flockomania.com/call-out/

If you have any questions then please don’t hesitate to contact us


With Best Wishes
Zoe + Sian

Zoe Robertson + Sian Hindle


Zoe Robertson
Course Director
BA (Hons)Jewellery Design and Related Products
School of Jewellery
Arts, Design and Media
Birmingham City University
Vittoria Street, Birmingham, B1 3PA

Phone(+44) (0) 121 331 5940
Fax (+44) (0) 121 331 5943

www.flockomania.com
www.zoerobertson.co.uk
twitter.com/_Zoe_Robertson
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 25, 2015 at 3:29pm

https://www.facebook.com/plymouthcollegeofartgallery/

The Association for Contemporary Jewellery latest touring exhibition ‘Sleight of Hand’ is all about magic – "the magic of making, illusions, pulling ideas out of hats and thin air. Clever fingers, deception, smoke & mirrors, craftiness and sheer skill". For those down this way - this sounds like an amazing exhibition currently on at Plymouth College of Art - PCA! https://www.facebook.com/plymouthcollegeofartgallery/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 25, 2015 at 3:23pm
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 22, 2015 at 10:46am
In a brand new competition from the Guild the theme will be COLOUR and the entrant with the most innovative use of coloured gemstones in a piece of jewellery will win a 10 Product Variance Pack from the Jewellery Photo Studio. The winner will have 12 months to use all 10 images.

It can be any type of jewellery and in any medium as long as it has been designed and made by yourself and contains at least one coloured gemstone. This competition is open to all GoJD members.

Jewellery Photo Studio - Product Variance

If you would like to enter this competition with a piece that you’ve designed and made yourself, simply post an image of it on the GoJD Forum thread, Jewellery Photo Studio Instagram Page, GoJD Google+ page, TGoJD Twitter Page or GoJD Facebook page, leaving a brief description if you wish.

The closing date for this competition will be 18 December 2015. The winning entry will be chosen by a panel of judges including Alan Hadley and Jayne Coulson from the GoJD and Kasia Piechocka from Jewellery Photo Studio and the winner will be notified by email.

http://www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk/index.php?option=com_con...
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on November 22, 2015 at 10:31am
Natural, Mystic, Avant-garde exhibition presents art jewellery by over 30 outstanding Polish artists and designers.

The project idea is to promote Polish art jewellery as well as the three inextricably linked with Poland materials: silver, amber and striped flint.

The exhibition had been organized by the Gallery of Art in Legnica.

The Gallery of Art in Legnica is internationally known as a centre for contemporary art jewellery and organizer of the annual Legnica Jewellery Festival - SILVER. The festival includes several dozen of solo and collective shows as well as presentation of the results of the prestigious international competition. During 35 years of its existence it became one of the most important art jewellery events worldwide and a meeting place for leading artists, designers and curators. http://www.artlyst.com/events/natural-mystic-avantgarde-magan-gallery
 

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