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 July 3, 2016 at 6:03am

Latest stats on jobs, diversity and exports
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/june-2016-policy-brief#s...

DCMS has published figures on the number of jobs in the creative industries alongside the value of exports from the UK Creative Industries. The figures show there were 1.9 million jobs in the creative industries and 2.9 million in the creative economy last year. The Crafts Council is working with DCMS officials to improve official figures for craft, currently based on partial estimates. Our report, Measuring the Craft Economy, demonstrates that in total craft is worth £3.4bn to the economy and employs 150,000 people.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:01am

http://klimt02.net/events/open-calls/call-applications-talente-comp...

Talente was founded in 1980 as international competition for all areas of craft and design. The selected participant can only exhibit once. A participation is only possible until the age of 33 (for the field technique up to 35 years of age). An international jury selects the winners of the "Talente"-Price. The special exhibition is jointly financed by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy and the Bavarian State Ministry for Economics and Media, Energy and Technology.

The aim of Talente is to promote young people with a particular manual talent and to show an interested audience the enormous potential which lies in the new generation in crafts and trades. The works will be the outcome of formal or technical considerations and experiments, showing something new and exceptional.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:01am

INTERVIEW
Curating, Debates

About curating. Jo Bloxham interviewed by klimt02
Klimt02
24Jun2016

Sometimes an idea come first and I know immediately that I want to run with it.

Interview part of the Serie under the title Selecting: Communicating Knowledge.

http://klimt02.net/forum/interviews/about-curating-jo-bloxham-inter...

What is the main function of a curator?
I see my main function as a curator to encourage the artists involved to respond to a brief with total creative freedom. To remove any preconceived ideas of what constitutes jewellery, and to encourage them to step outside their comfort zone and create something new, be it in materials, scale or context.
It is also important to be the stepping-stone between the artists and the venue. For example, if I am curating an exhibition for Manchester Art Gallery, the gallery may know nothing about a particular artist as the gallery is still relatively new in showcasing jewellery. Therefore, it is my job to carry out the wishes of the artist, wherever possible, with the display of their work within any given boundaries. I will have chosen particular artists because I admire and respect their work, it is therefore my responsibility to show it in the context in which it was intended.
It is also important to me that the gallery is happy with the exhibition and it's contents - after all I want them to invite me back!

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 5:58am

http://www.velvetdavinci.com/2016/06/shared-concerns/

Shared Concerns: Melissa Cameron, Aran Galligan, Dan DiCaprio, Kaori Juzu, Jill Hermans, Caitie Sellers, Lynn Batchelder, and Vincent Pontillo-Verrastro
July 1-31, 2016
Artists’ Reception: Friday July 1, 6-8pm

An exhibition documenting the meeting of eight international artists, brought together to work in the Penland studios in the mountains of North Carolina. As a group, the artists were asked to share a word that encapsulated the main concern of their practice. Words were then swapped at random so that each person received a different word, and used it as a part of the inspiration for their new work, by interpreting the ‘concern’ of another group member.

The pieces begun during their Winter Residency at Penland and were finished in studios across the United States as well as in Australia and Denmark, where this diverse group of jewelry artists call home. Shared Concerns is curated by Melissa Cameron and Aran Galligan.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 5:04am

OPEN HOUSE LONDON
Sat 17 September 2016
10am - 5pm, Guided tours run at 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm, Free
The Goldsmiths' Centre

Come and visit us as we throw open the door to the Goldsniths' Centre for the third year. Discover what it takes to work in this unique trade through free, first come first served, behind-the-scenes guided tours and demonstrations. Book now http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/whats-on/public-events/16-09-open-...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 5:03am

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL
Sat 17 - Sun 25 September 2016
Mon - Fri, 9am - 6pm, Paid event
The Goldsmiths' Centre

First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival (LDF) is one of the world's most important annual design events. The Goldsmiths' Centre joins over 400 events and exhibitions staged across the design spectrum and celebrates the future of design and craft. Read more http://www.goldsmiths-centre.org/whats-on/public-events/16-09-londo...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 4:32am

Innovate UK will be exhibiting at the Farnborough International Airshow 2016 between 11th and 15th July. Visit us in the Innovation Zone, Hall 3.

Farnborough International Airshow is a week-long show exhibiting the best of aerospace. Innovate UK will be there showcasing some great innovation from organisations we’ve supported.

Come and visit us in the Innovation Zone to find out more about the organisations we support and how we could help you in the future. We’ll have experts from:
Aerospace
Materials and Manufacturing
Space
EU National Contact Points

There’ll always be someone on the stand to help but if you’re attending the show and would like to book some time with a member of the team contact Innovate UK’s Aerospace Team.

Some of the organisations we’re bringing to exhibit on the stand include:

Kind regards,

Innovate UK
North Star House, North Star Avenue,
Swindon SN2 1UE
www.innovateuk.gov.uk

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 1, 2016 at 4:33pm
The Artist In Residence (Jewellery And Silversmithing)

2 POSTS

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy visual arts team at South Hill Park.

South Hill Park has five artists’ residencies for the visual arts, each of which is for up to two years. There are two residencies for Printmaking, two for Silversmithing and one for Ceramics. These residencies are an important part of Visual Art activities at South Hill Park. The next Silversmithing residencies are due to start Sept 2016.

The resident artists, as well as having the use of a well-equipped studio to make and develop their own work, would be required to teach 3 x 10 week terms per year

Post 1

4 classes (total 10hs) per week: Monday AM, PM and EVE , Thursday EVE class in Jewellery & Silversmithing.

Post 2

5 classes per week (total 12.5h): Tuesday AM & EVE, Wed AM & EVE, Sat AM

Teaching is paid at £20.39 per hour

Initially offered for a fixed term of 12 months, with the opportunity to extend to 24 months.

Closing Date: 1 July

Please complete an application form and return it along side your CV and a covering letter stating why you believe you are a suitable candidate for this role and return it to kate.ratcliffe@southhillpark.org.uk

Click here to read the job description

Click here for the application form

Click here to read the introduction

Click here to read the timetable

http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/about/vacancies/
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 25, 2016 at 3:45pm

Peter warmly invites you to join him for drinks to celebrate his monumental new sculpture
The One and The Many, Pearson Square, London

The sculpture comprises a 25 tonne, 3.5m high naturally eroded granite boulder inscribed over it’s entire surface with marks carved in low relief representing writing systems from the earliest cuneiform script (active 5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia) to those still in use today. The texts themselves are creation stories from various cultures, each conveyed in their own writing systems.
The sculpture was commissioned by Exemplar, Aviva Investors and Kaupthing, curated by Patrick Morey-Burrows of ArtSource.

www.theoneandthemany.co.uk

Please RSVP by Monday 27 June to contact@peterrandall-page.com

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 25, 2016 at 3:43pm
Innovate UK: Open funding competition
 
From:
Innovate UK
First published:
27 May 2016
Last updated:
17 June 2016, see all updates
Part of:
Innovation grants for business: apply for funding
 
Innovate UK is investing up to £15 million in innovative R&D projects. The competition is open to all UK companies.
 

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