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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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Studying Craft Launch Events
The Crafts Council’s research report Studying Craft: trends in craft education and training launches in February 2014 with a series of four events to present the key findings.
These events will explore how art, craft and design education and training, from key stage 4 to post-graduate level, has changed over the last five years, how participation patterns are shifting and where new courses are emerging.
Following presentation of the findings there will be the opportunity for discussion and networking, and the chance to shape arguments about craft education and training for the future.
These events are for makers, policy makers, research specialists, and education institutions.
The Studying Craft events in London and Cheltenham will be followed by partnership seminars with CraftNet and Studying Craft: Manchester is part of a full day seminar in partnership with CHEAD.
All events are free but must be pre-booked.
Studying Craft: London
27 February, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London
9am-1pm
Networking Lunch*
1-2pm
*there is a £10 fee for the Studying Craft: London lunch
CraftNet London seminar
Back to the Future: Craft Apprenticeships for 21st century business
2-5pm
This dynamic panel debate chaired by Cockpit Arts CEO Vanessa Swann, will explore how makers are developing different models of apprenticeships to support the next generation of talent and grow their own practices. Panellists include Ellen O’Hara on Cockpit Arts’ Creative Employment Programme and Peter Taylor from the Goldsmiths’ Centre on different approaches to jewellery and silversmithing apprenticeships. Sophie Holloway of Holloway-Smith Noir will share her experience of employing through the National Apprenticeship Service and Lida Kindersley from The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop will reflect on their unique approach to stone carving apprenticeships. The session will include an interactive Q&A and offer networking with the panel and other participants.
CraftNet is an independent network that promotes leadership and strategic development for contemporary craft.
Book London Events
Studying Craft: Margate
5 March, Turner Contemporary, Margate
1-5pm
This presentation will also include a case study from Turner Contemporary Education programme We are Curious, which engenders creative questioning and critical thinking.
Book Margate Event
Studying Craft: Cheltenham
11 March 2014, The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
9.30am-1pm
Networking Lunch
1-2pm
CraftNet South West seminar
Craft and Cooperation: exploring the power of working together
2-5pm
The place of cooperation is often taken for granted within the craft sector: the everyday experience of sharing skills, linking to others, collaborating on projects or in workspaces creates a culture apparently underpinned by cooperation. While working together has tremendous power, it also presents great challenges, particularly during the current economic conditions. At this CraftNet meeting a series of conversations will open up the debate about how the craft sector should be addressing the important issue of cooperation.
CraftNet is an independent network that promotes leadership and strategic development for contemporary craft.
Book Cheltenham Events
Studying Craft: Manchester + CHEAD seminar
18 March 2014, Manchester Metropolitan University
9.30-5pm
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Executive Dean of UCA Dr Roni Brown is a fan of UCA BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery graduate Lisa Larcombe's contemporary jewellery pieces - so much so, that she received one of Lisa's necklaces for Christmas from her partner.
After spotting it at one of UCA's popular End of Year Shows, Roni was fascinated by the beautifully made and striking necklace.
Lisa had always enjoyed making jewellery in her spare time, then decided to study Metalwork and Jewellery part-time at UCA to that she was able to continue with her job as a biomedical scientist. She transferred her expertise and knowledge of the human form into her jewellery, with the construction of her final unit pieces representing the unit construction in the human body.
"Roni's necklace is made of chainmail to reflect the way that cells are connected in the human body," said Lisa. "The length of the necklace is the same length of a human spinal cord, and the thin metal bars down the length of the necklace represent nerves coming out of the spinal cord. I was really pleased with the final pieces for my portfolio and when Roni's partner got in touch with interest to buy it for her, I was thrilled - I'd remembered Roni's interest in the piece at the End of Year Show so I knew she'd be happy with the gift."
The necklace is made of silver and bronze, that is placed onto titanium. Lisa cut and shaped wire by hand to create the chainmail, and used an acorn stem as the mould for the horizontal bars to represent nerves from the spinal cord.
"The necklace is astonishing from both a craft and conceptual perspective," said Dr Roni Brown, Executive Dean, Faculty of Art, Media and Communication Design at UCA. "Lisa's attention to detail is evident throughout the necklace, which has a wonderful texture and a great kinetic quality - there's so much movement in it. Lisa's whole portfolio at the End of Year show was incredible, exploring the connection between natural and manmade form. I was so surprised to open it on Christmas morning but absolutely thrilled, and I've loved catching up with Lisa to find out more about the story behind making the necklace."
"It's great to hear that Roni loves Lisa's necklace," said Rebecca Skeels, Course Leader for Post-Graduate Craft & Design at UCA. "Lisa's story is a brilliant example of how flexible the Crafts courses can be, to work around your existing job or commitments. Our students come from all kinds of backgrounds with different experience. Graduates like Lisa prove that all life experience is relevant, which can be used to inspire and influence work. Our facilities give students the freedom to explore new materials, tools and processes to support creative ideas like Lisa's."
Lisa is a member of the Association of Contemporary Jewellery and has been asked by JASSO (Jewellery And Silver Society Oxford) to help arrange courses and suggest new course ideas for 2015.
Jewellery photography by Beytan Erkmen, Technical Tutor in Photgraphy at UCA Farnham.
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