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 January 18, 2020 at 9:06am

The Future of Craft Selects – apply by 10 February

 

After the success of its inaugural show in 2019, The Future of Craft returns as a destination hub for London Craft Week 2020. The ground-breaking partnership led by Oxo Tower Wharf in collaboration with Design-Nation and Future Icons showcases contemporary craft over five-floors at Bargehouse with displays, demonstrations, workshops, talks and installations from innovative and inspiring makers and collectives. Now in its second year, The Future of Craft launches ‘Selects’, an opportunity for emerging and established individual contemporary designer-makers to showcase at this not-to-be-missed event.

 

For more information and for application pack visit https://www.oxotower.co.uk/the-future-of-craft-selects/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 9:01am

A/dornment is a curatorial integrated project dedicated to contemporary art jewelry. https://www.adornment-jewelry.com/about

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:56am

The Augustus Brandt Gallery in Petworth is hosting a Silversmiths exhibition called Living Silver: Contemporary Silver for the Home, dedicated to showcasing the technically skilled work of British silversmiths in partnership with Contemporary British Silversmiths (CBS). https://www.artsandcollections.com/exhibition-showcases-the-works-o...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:54am
 
Studio Co-ordinator
Studio Co-ordinator, Ruth Tomlinson - Holborn, London
 
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Ruth Tomlinson
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:50am

Craft Town Public Art Commission:

Cast Your Vote to Select the Winning Proposal

We are delighted to invite you to cast your vote for a new Craft Town Public Art commission in Waggon Yard.

The sculpture will be located next to a busy car park in the courtyard of the grade II listed building of the New Ashgate Gallery Trust in Waggon Yard.

The shortlisted artists are Walter Bailey (3rd image below), Manuela Kagerbauer (2nd image) and David Mayne (1st image).

Join us for presentations by the artists on Monday 20 January, 2pm (free but booking is required).

The proposals are on display until 29 February and the Farnham community is invited to vote and select the winning proposal - to be announced on 7 February on the gallery website. The voting is in person in the gallery, only.

The sculpture will be installed in October 2020 - during the craft month in Farnham. The public art commission is supported by Arts Council England. https://mailchi.mp/dc6afc787a50/sculpturecommission

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:46am
Gem Fairs for January to April 2020
We've been busy over the Christmas break arranging more gem fairs for 2020, both in the UK and the USA, with our partners from Fair Trade Gemstones, Capricorn Gems and Gemstones Brazil (plus others!).
 
As well as this week in London, you can also find us in Tucson, Edinburgh and London.
 
3rd to 6th February - Tucson
 
26th & 27th March - Edinburgh
 
2nd & 3rd April - London
 
For an overview of our events, see our Facebook events page.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:45am
Do you have jewellery from Funaki you don't wear?
Turn it into a donation for bushfire recovery.
 
Donate it to our silent auction to raise funds for the CFA and Wildlife Victoria.
We're all feeling overwhelmed at the fires devastating vast swathes of Australia and displacing whole communities, from our precious coasts and farmland to our irreplaceable alpine high country. Business as usual is impossible. We can't replace what's gone, but your jewellery can help support those on the front lines, who are working so hard to save what's left.
Donations of jewellery in good condition* are welcome until Friday 14 February.
Please bring your piece in for us to look at, or email us a picture. If it's suitable, we'll ask you to send it in with any relevant details.
You'll choose to which of our nominated recipients money raised should go: CFA Volunteer Welfare Fund or Zoos Victoria Bushfire Emergency Wildlife Fund. All proceeds will be donated. (You can also donate via these links directly if you prefer).
The auction will run Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th March and works will be available to view at Gallery Funaki during that week.
Once all jewellery is received and documented, we'll provide more information so you can survey the field and prepare your bids! We hope this will be a rare opportunity to secure a special piece - something perhaps you missed out on the first time - with works from the gallery's own collection also on offer.
Please email Katie at gallery@galleryfunaki.com.au for more information or with any questions. Thank you for your support.
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:39am
Body and Mind: Seen and Unseen at the National Centre for Craft & Design brings together a group of thought-provoking and engaging works across a range of media which all, in different ways, look at what it means to be well. Design-Nation members Janine Partington and Jan Bowman are part of this exhibition. Janine is showing work related to her father's life with Alzheimer's Disease.
NCCD Body and Mind; Seen and Unseen
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:31am
Are you an independent contemporary jeweller or silversmith with no more than six people at the bench?
 
Would you like the opportunity to present your collections to the most discerning buyers and collectors, at the most prestigious fine jewellery and contemporary silver Fair in the UK?
 
Applications for Goldsmiths' Fair 2020 are now open and will close on Thursday 27 February at midday. https://www.goldsmithsfair.co.uk/about-goldsmiths-fair/apply/
Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 18, 2020 at 8:20am
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ANNOUNCE:
MAKING FUTURES
RETHINKING CRAFT COMMUNITIES, TAKING ON GLOBAL CHALLENGES FINAL REMINDER OF EXTENDED CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE, 20TH JANUARY 2020. SUBMIT VIA THE ONLINE FORM HERE.
A three-day Making Futures conference in Cebu City, the Philippines,
from the 6-8 March 2020 at the Quest Hotel. This Making Futures
edition in Southeast Asia is a partnership between the British
Council and Plymouth College of Art and supported through the
British Council’s Crafting Futures global programme.
 
THE FULL PROGRAMME CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE.
 

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