The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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

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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.

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 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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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 5:06am: Contemporary jewelry world has been confronted to a glass ceiling for more than 40 years and nothing constructive comes out from this kind of attitude. Klimt02 presents the second interview of the serie Market & Contemporary Jewellery. A conversation with Elena and Chiaralice Rizzi from OhMyBlue gallery.

https://klimt02.net/series/market-contemporary-jewellery?utm_source...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 4:48am: Bristol-based Open Bionics will take its bespoke 3D-printed prosthetic arms to even more children and young people, after attracting £4.6 million from investors. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bionic-arm-start-up-secures-46-m...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 4:46am: Gallery Funaki : Now showing

Jiro Kamata, Extended Definition

Featuring 40 pieces from the last 3 years of his practice. Extended Definition explores new territory in Jiro Kamata's ongoing investigation of light, reflectivity and colour. Alongside major museum pieces such as the 'Ghost' (2017) and 'Flare' (2018-19) series, the exhibition showcases Jiro's updating of the archetypal jewellery, mother of pearl, and a range of rings featuring Akoya pearls (above).

Extended Definition finishes on 2 March. View a catalogue of this exhibition below. https://www.flipsnack.com/funaki/jiro-kamata-extended-definition.html

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 4:19am: Little has changed in the ten years since John Holden first shone a spotlight on the damaging disconnect between the arts sector and the public at large. Could the mass realisation of personal creativity provide a way forward?

https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/article/escaping-catch-...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 3:41am: Head of Creative Learning

Fixed Term, Full-Time Contract for up to 10 months (Maternity Cover)

Warwick Arts Centre is the largest arts centre outside London with a vision to be a world class arts venue where creativity, collaboration and innovation thrive, inspiring everyone to discover the power of the arts and creativity.

We are looking for an interim Head of Creative Learning to lead the team to ensure that our creative learning work is fully integrated with the artistic programme and to deliver a programme of learning and participation opportunities to local schools, teachers, families, young talent, artists and communities.https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/jobs/premium/university-warwick/...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 3:34am: How To Develop Creative Confidence

If you want to produce a body of work you’re proud of, you must have a creative point of view. However, it is risky to commit yourself to ideas and ideals that cause you to be vulnerable and open you up to critique from others. On this episode, I share just a few principles for developing creative confidence and pushing yourself to the next level. Listen https://accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/how-to-build-creative-co...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 3:33am: https://www.crowood.com/details.asp?isbn=9781785005459

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 23, 2019 at 3:31am: Thank you for responding Mark... good to know.. will keep posting!

Comment by Mark Fenn - Studiofenn on February 19, 2019 at 4:13am: I read do you all your post..via your weekly email. But I do drop in here every so often

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on February 18, 2019 at 3:25pm: Thank you for responding Anne. Good to know someone still looks at these posts. I still post for ACJ on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. Mostly images on Instagram and info, conpetitions and exhibitions on LinkedIn and Facebook and what ever fits in the space on Twitter.

This has the smallest group. But hopefully all are jewellers that enjoy the info here too. I hope there are enough to spark people's interest and inspires them to enter some events and competitions.

Do do you belong to any of the other digital network platforms too?