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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
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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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Free Craft Sessions at Making Space #ThanksToYou
This month sees the 25th anniversary of the National Lottery and, with it, the Heritage Lottery Fund. Making Space has benefitted from the Fund and run two brilliant heritage project and now, as part of the National Lottery's 25th birthday celebrations, we are opening up our craft studio for a week of free craft sessions, to say #thankstoyou to all Lottery players.
From 25-29th November, between 10am and 12noon, our Craft Studio will be free to use. Bring along your own project or make use of the materials we have here.
All you need to gain entry is a National Lottery ticket or scratchcard! For full terms and conditions and to find out more about this event, https://makingspace.org/thankstoyou/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_me...
Measured Making
The #150mm Challenge
30th November 2019 - 18th January 2020
Exhibition Opens Saturday 30th November 12-2pm
The #150mm Challenge is a celebration of process, material, creativity and ingenuity in forged metal. It began when Hereford College of Arts lecturer Ambrose Burne set his students a ‘warm-up’ exercise, one that he regularly sets himself, to create something interesting out of a small rectangular piece of steel, 150mm x 20 mm square. The students had three weeks to design and make something using only the specified quantity of material
The challenge went on to catch the interest of blacksmiths around the world and Measured Making features 240 artworks from 19 countries. The artworks varied from playful figurative models to functional tools and abstract sculptures, demonstrating a diverse, creative and technical exploration of form and concept, made in response to the challenge.
The #150mm Challenge continues to connect an international community of blacksmiths, revealing a rich diversity of practice and discourse. https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=f9762e0bca4dd19f3b4f1f1ce&i...
Surrey Artists’ Open Studios Bursaries
Every year SAOS is delighted to offer a few bursaries to artists that have not participated in open studios before, with a view to helping early career artists. Surrey Artists’ Open Studios aims to be as inclusive as possible to all artists + makers based in Surrey + its borders. We realise the importance of supporting the local artist community + these annual bursaries provide an affordable platform for emerging artists.
Our winners will be eligible for free entry to the Surrey Artists’ Open Studios Summer event 2020, worth £80, as well as free entry to one of our training courses for 2019-20: e.g. 'How to promote you and your work', worth £25.
Winning artists will need to register as a SAOS member in order to participate in these opportunities. Annual membership is £50 and you can register on www.surreyopenstudios.org.uk
Deadline is
Tues 15th Nov 2019.
To apply please email 3 images of your work together with an outline of your artistic practice and an explanation of what a bursary would mean for you.
Please send to Caitlin at: info@surreyopenstudios.org.uk
Artists will be informed of the outcome by 20 November to allow registration before the deadline of Thursday 5 December.
(Registration opens 1 Nov and closes 5 Dec 2019).
Hannah Gallery presents the first solo show with Gigi Mariani in Barcelona. After his participation at the group exhibition The Alchemical Egg, Visions and Revelations of an Enigma in 2017, the Italian artist is featuring now Beyond the Black, introducing a selection of 14 new works, six Rings, five Brooches, two Necklaces, and one Bracelet. Research on works is focusing on the reduction of his language to the minimalistic expression and the geometry as well as leaving behind the regular use of the black niello as a central element to become a single accent on the pieces. https://hannahgallerybarcelona.net/exhibitions/beyond-black-gigi-ma...
JPLUS Emerging Talent Award 2019 by Klimt02 https://klimt02.net/events/awards/jplus-emerging-talent-award-2019
Make Your Future: celebrating craft in the classroom
November 21st, 10am- 1pm, Thomas Tallis School, London SE3 9PX
The Crafts Council are hosting an event to demonstrate the importance of making in our schools. We still have places available and we’re keen to welcome as many teachers, school SLTs and colleagues from the craft, cultural and FE/ HE sectors as possible— so please do share news of the event with your networks. (there is also a tweet to share below)
We’re looking forward to a really collaborative, galvanising event that will leave delegates with practical tools to develop the craft offer in their setting, wherever that may be! Highlights will include:
Tweet:
Join @CraftsCouncilUK for Celebrating Craft in the Classroom— a morning of quick-fire case studies, hands-on activity, and lively debate about how we can ensure hands-on making is an essential part of every child's education https://bit.ly/317nEhr
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