The Ring
100s of Rings, by forty artists
Opens Friday 2 October 2009
Studio Ingot
Shop 2, 234 Brunswick StFitzroy Victoria 3065
ph 03 9415 6000
www.studioingot.com.au
The ring is a symbol universally interpreted as a marker of an emotional or spiritual bond. This simple object has always reflected the wearer and communicated a social context. As a symbol, the ring has always generated mystery, power, magic and desire.
Since its earliest appearance in archaeological finds, the ring has always been a subject of historical reflection. Design and materials have communicated both the artist’s voice and the wearer’s desires. One of the few items worn that is worn daily, a ring serves as both a talisman and reminder.
As a poignant gift the ring communicates: Affection, Love, Betrothal, Commitment, Engagement, Mourning, Celebration, Congratulations, Friendship, Luck or Thank you.
In a contemporary context, rings approach the definition of sculpture. They may please or provoke, sending a powerful communication from the wearer about their personal style or beliefs.
Platinum, white gold , silver, corian, recycled plastic, diamond, ruby, pearl, titanium, yellow gold, green sapphire, black diamond.
Artists:
Brendan Adair-Smith Annaig Bidan Jane Bowden Katherine Bowman Madeleine Brown Michelle Cangiano Michael De Vildosola Raymond de Zwart Jeanette Dyke Nina Ellis Norman Fell Michael Fletcher Yuri Fujiyama Darren Harvey Barbara Heath Nicky Hepburn Birgit Holdinghausen Pennie Jagiello Bridget Kennedy Rebecca Kim Anette Kortenhaus Fiona Kwong Catherine Large Katheryn Leopoldseder Coconut Lu Shine Myung-ok Shin Belinda Newick Mary Odorcic David Parker Cass Partington Rebecca Pocock Amy Renshaw Sarah Ross Regine Schwarzer Zoe Jay Veness Kathryn Wardill Robin Wells Leonie WestbrookStudio Ingot represents over 60 Australian jewellery and silversmithing artisans.
Studio Ingot Shop 2, 234 Brunswick StFitzroy Victoria 3065
ph 03 9415 6000
www.studioingot.com.au
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Tags: Amy Renshaw, Anette Kortenhaus, Annaig Bidan, Barbara Heath, Belinda Newick, Birgit Holdinghausen, Brendan Adair-Smith, Bridget Kennedy, Cass Partington, Catherine Large, Coconut Lu, Darren Harvey, David Parker, Fiona Kwong, Jane Bowden, Jeanette Dyke, Katherine Bowman, Katheryn Leopoldseder, Kathryn Wardill, Leonie Westbrook, Madeleine Brown, Mary Odorcic, Michael De Vildosola, Michael Fletcher, Michelle Cangiano, Nicky Hepburn, Nina Ellis, Norman Fell, Rebecca Kim, Rebecca Pocock, Regine Schwarzer, Robin Wells, Sarah Ross, Shine Myung-ok Shin, Yuri Fujiyama, Zoe Jay Veness
A Little Bazaar
26th of September, 11am – 6pm
“A Little Bazaar” is all about out-of-the-ordinary hand-made jewellery and objects.
The focus of this event is to celebrate you – the designer, your concepts and
your creations. A little market that’s a little… bizarre.
The market will take place in The Beresford Hotel’s courtyard, 354 Bourke
Street, Darlinghurst NSW, opposite from the Object Gallery on the 26th of
September, the last Saturday of the month. The bazaar will get bustling from
11am – 6pm.
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Opening Night October 1, running until October 29
Metalab 10B Fitzroy Place Surry Hills NSWwww.metalab.com.au
unnatural, naturally – Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young
With a delight in finding expressions of the ‘natural’ in the ‘unnatural’ (and vice versa), Simeoni and Young exploit the potential of found objects in their work, playing with colour and materiality. The conceptual ideas for this exhibition have been developed using a shared sketchbook, which migrates back and forth between their studios. The exhibition features work with a focus on botany and the body – re-presenting and re-configuring natural forms via artificial conduits. Creating, utilising and manipulating non-specific artificial objects: changing the unnatural to the natural, the artists have developed playful bodies of new work which speak to each other through an excited engagement of ideas and material sensibility.
Lauren Simeoni (Adelaide) and Melinda Young (Sydney) create work that is a homage to the senses – a wearable passport to a whimsical ‘other’ reality. Exploring the potential for unexpected narrative, their works often have a sly subversive humour. Finding the beautiful and seductive in what is otherwise thought of as mundane, toying with mass-production processes and reconfiguring mass-produced objects to create wearables of seductive beauty. Simeoni has a Bachelor of Arts (Gold and Silversmithing) from Canberra School of Art and undertook a Design Associateship at the JamFactory in Adelaide. Young has a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts. Both artists exhibit widely in Australia and overseas.
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Jiggle Wiggle Wobble Bounce
Sharon Fitness
8th September – 3rd October 2009
Inform Contemporary Jewellery, Christchurch
a series of nine new brooches:
“My practice evolves around play, fun and random happenings. I work with silicone because it offers the flexibility, changeability and tactility I need to produce playful wobbly wearable beings. These brooches have a life of their own, often prompting the wearer to jiggle wiggle wobble and bounce along with them. They attract smiles and encourage interaction with others”.
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blank space gallery
374 Crown St Surry Hill Opening night is Thursday 15th October from 6pm til 8pm, at blank space The exhibition will be running daily until Wednesday the 28th of OctoberTen female graduates/staff from the Design Centre Enmore have united for a second year running to exhibit on a theme, this year being girls against gold.
In 2009 the artists are questioning the preciousness of traditional materials commonly used in jewellery. Stimulated by both a contemporary viewpoint on material value as well as a reaction to inflated gold prices they will be exploring materials and ideas not conventionally applied to jewellery.
The ten female artists have created an exhibition of quirky, unique and handmade contemporary jewellery and objects aimed to inspire, provoke thoughts, capture the imagination, while exploring the question ‘what makes something precious’.
The participants 2009 are: Majella Beck, Jenny Daskalakis, Lisa Furno, A Mi Kim, Nikki Majajas,
Jasmine Matus, Radka Passianova, Natasha Marcus-Taylor, Bernadette Trainor, Janis Valdivia
An added bonus for gallery visitors will be ‘ten girls in ten days’. Each day that the show is running will see one the ten participants staffing the space and available to answer any questions about the works. All are welcome to attend this event, much of the work will be available to purchase and 5% of all sales will be donated to Breast Cancer Australia.
For all enquiries please visit tenmoregirls blog
Opening night is Thursday 15th October from 6pm til 8pm, at blank space The exhibition will be running daily until Wednesday the 28th of October.
blank space is located on 374 Crown St Surry Hills and Opening hours is Mon – Sun 11am – 6pm
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for
the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.blank_space
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DJURDJICA KESIC – Nomad
Tues 15th Sept – Sat 10th Oct , 2009
Artist floor talk Sat 3rd Oct at Pieces of Eight Gallery, 4pm.
Djurdjica Kesic completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Interior Design at RMIT University Melbourne in 1999 and taught there for several years. A strong drive to create tangible objects has seen her develop this passion, and in 2007 she completed an Advanced Diploma of Engineering Technology and Metal-smithing (Jewellery), Box Hill Institute. The same year saw her work selected and exhibited as part of the Filippo Raphael Fresh Award at Craft Victoria where she was a finalist.
Open Tuesday to Friday 11-6pm, Saturday 11-5pm. For more information telephone
(03) 9497 8121, email info@piecesofeight.com.au or go to www.piecesofeight.com.au
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GRADUATE METAL 12
Graduate Metal 12 is a graduating students survey exhibition held in conjunction with the 14th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) Biennial Conference taking place in Perth, April 2010.
Graduate Metal is a way in which the JMGA recognises emerging artists within the contemporary jewellery and metalsmithing fields.
Entry to Graduate Metal is available to graduates from Australia, New Zealand and from selected educational institutions in Japan, Korea, Thailand and Singapore who have completed an Associate Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Undergraduate or Honours degree in jewellery and/ or metalsmithing since the last JMGA Biennial Conference in Adelaide in 2008.
Final selection is based on contemporary jewellery and objects of the highest quality.
Students submit a completed entry form and a maximum of two digital jpeg images (in high resolution) of their graduating work. Entries will be judged by a panel including WA JMGA Committee Members and a respected contemporary practitioner in the field. Successful entrants will be notified and supplied with the terms and conditions should they intend to exhibit. They will also be required to send specific information about the work they intend to exhibit, images of the work for the catalogue (if different from the images sent for initial entry) and to pay $60 exhibition entry fee. Please note – students are not required to pay the entry fee for the initial selection process, they only need to pay if they are selected and intend to exhibit.
Important points to remember
- Top graduates from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Korea and Thailand are invited to participate
- Students are only eligible if they have completed an Associate Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Undergraduate degree or Honours degree in a Contemporary Jewellery or metalsmithing course since the last JMGA Biennial Conference in Adelaide, 2008
- The work must have been made in their graduating year
- A $60 entry fee is payable after students have been selected and if they intend to exhibit
- If the quality of the actual work is not consistent with the images provided the entrant may be refused the right to display the work in the exhibition
- All initial entry forms and images for selection must be post marked by October 30th 2009. Entries will not be accepted after this date
- Submit entries to the following address:Graduate Metal 12
JMGA WA (inc)
24 Woodbridge Drive
GREENMOUNT WA 6056Contacts
Brenda Ridgewell B.Ridgewell@curtin.edu.au
Carrie McDowell (Vice President JMGA WA) carriemcdowell@bigpond.com
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Brisbane Spring / Summer Markets Applications last 3 weeks to go!
The very first Brisbane markets is gearing up to be a great event! If you are an artist or designer that is interested in being involved don’t miss out on applying here:
Apply for the Brisbane Markets Now!
Applications close on the 11th September
Sydney Spring / Summer Markets Applications Now Open!
All designers and artists interesting in being apart of the Spring/Summer markets in December at CarriageWorks are invited to now apply! The applications are online now along with frequently asked questions and criteria.
Apply for the Sydney Markets Now!
Applications close on the 16th October.
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Over two special nights residents of the Nicholas Building will be opening their studio doors to the public.
4-9pm Thursday 29th August and 4-9pm Friday 30th August
37 Swanston St
Melbourne
Includes lots of jewellers such as:
Karla Way (Floor 2, Studio 4)
Natalia Milosz-Piekarksa (Floor 2, Studio 4)
Emma Grace (Floor 4, Studio 11)
Helen Bowman (Floor 8, Studio 21)
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m1 pollinate
Jane Pollard
Sydney based, self taught jeweller Jane Pollard has been creating wearable objects from found and collected materials for the past 15 years. Pollard is fascinated by the nostalgia and passion held by vintage haberdashery, buttons and buckles and adds to the objects stories and lifespans by transforming them into contemporary jewellery.
The forms made are inspired by the objects Pollard finds and receives, and are underpinned by her commitment to utilise recycled materials. As her collection grows so does her appreciation of the individual objects, each piece drawing on the inherent qualities of the component objects – their colours, shapes and patterns – to create unique wearable pieces.
Pollard’s earlier works were inspired by her experiences with string spun from the plant fibre Agave; a skill she learnt while teaching in an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. Jane has revisited this string making technique for pollinate, her first solo exhibition. pollinate reinforces the collector and hoarder within Pollard as she beautifully brings together objects, ideas, styles and materials to create a plastic landscape. All flower shaped, the pieces are built using an array of materials including hand cut, melted polypropylene with hand spun string, buttons, buckles, silver, found objects and beading.
m2 Coral Wreath
Pennie Jagiello
Jagiello celebrates the beauty and fragility of the ocean in her first solo Sydney exhibition Coral Wreath. The work replicates her own intimate interpretation of the beauty within the sea, alongside that which is destroying it.
Twisted recycled plastics replicate the products that are destroying our oceans, while also emulating the fragility of sea life and the changes associated with the increase of human impact.
The pieces also reference Pacific art and adornment, emulating materials and techniques a speaking of the impact of global warming on coastal communities and the effect the environmental changes will have on the future of coastal towns
Recycled materials are an intrinsic component in Jagiello’s work, materials are not so much sourced, but chanced upon, influencing and moulding the piece to be made. Discarded plastics can live in the marine environment for up to 600 years and so sings a significant song in this body of work. Previously Jagiello has also utilized telephone cables to communicate the need for urgent awareness of the extreme danger our beautiful oceans are in and how we are rapidly destroying them.
Running until September24
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pyd design markets
*CALL FOR ENTRIES * pyd design markets
24-25 October 2009
Running to coincide the 2009 Danks Street Festival, the pyd design market is a new initiative developed to provide Australia’s brightest design talents a powerful sales platform from which to reach consumers. Last year the Danks Street Festival drew a crowd of 20,000 design savvy consumer, many of whom were thrilled with the discovery of a design market in pyd. It provided not only a potent selling opportunity, but also a powerful brand awareness and ‘word of mouth’ opportunity for participating Designers.
Designers will be hand chosen by an influential expert panel including David Clark, Editor of Vogue Living magazine, and Geoff Clark, Principal of pyd. To assure quality of product and design, only 80 designers will be offered a coveted space within the pyd precinct. New to the event is the expansion of the markets, which will now run over two days. There will also be live craftsmanship and design workshops taking place over the weekend.
As part of the weekend event two awards will be given at an intimate pyd cocktail party and awards night on Saturday 24 October, hosted by Vogue Living. The award categories are ‘pyd Designer of the Year’ and ‘pyd Market Space Design of the Year’.
Submit your entry now!
Event Dates: 24 & 25 October 09
Entry Deadline: 1 September 09
Application Form: pyd design markets application form
Submission Details: Please email your submission to laura@publissimo.com.au Continue reading ‘pyd design markets’
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST 2009, TWO EVENTS, ONE DAY ONLY!
OPEN STUDIO DAY at the Pieces of Eight Workshop, part of Craft Victorias Craft Cubed festival. Come behind the scenes and meet the six resident jewellers. Share in a cup of tea and some homemade sweets while you visit us: Nina Ellis, Lucy Folk, Rachel Gorman, Melanie Katsalidis, Krista McRae, Suzi Zutic. From 3 -6pm
ARTIST FLOOR TALK, featuring exhibiting artist Tessa Blazey who will discuss her current exhibition, Fabrication, 18 Aug 12 Sept, 2009. In this exhibition Blazey creates intimate sci-fi worlds and geometric wearables through a series of new jewellery pieces for Pieces of Eight Gallery. The collections exhibited are highly sculptural and unified by their common conceptual origins – Blazeys fascination with mineral specimens, their formal geometries and structures From 5pm
For more information, link to the website and read an interview with the artist on the blog.
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Tags: Krista McRae, Lucy Folk, Melanie Katsalidis, Nina Ellis, Rachel Gorman, Suzi Zutic
Thanks to Klimt02 for this post.
At the age of 35 she knew she was good
Walker’s jewellery is delightfully risky, a poetry of found objects treated with serious intent as well as playful humour.In the face of Walker’s willingness to transform pretty much anything into jewellery, I find myself scurrying to keepup. Continue reading ‘Lisa Walker: Her Last Show Made In Munich’
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A travelling exhibition curated by Daniel Mc Owan
Director, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria on behalf of the School of Art Gallery
TOUR DATES
30 April – 30 May 2009 School of Art Gallery, Canberra.
5 June – 18 July 2009 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
25 Sept. – 30 Oct. 2009 Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Qld
9 April – 4 June 2010 John Curtin Gallery, Perth
4 August – 29 August 2010 Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, Rozelle
3 Nov. – 20 Dec. 2010 Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Victoria
Johannes Kuhnen is a pioneer of the anodising and colouring process of aluminium and its application in a studio based practice. He combines traditional working methods with industrial materials and processes. The works are recognisable through his dynamic use of colour and form and his attention to detail. Johannes Kuhnen has had a significant influence on the contemporary Australian gold and silversmithing scene through his teaching at the School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra where he has fostered a resurgence in gold and silversmithing and initiated a number of travelling exhibitions.
In conjunction with this exhibition a publication will be released which comprehensively illustrates Kuhnen’s recent work, as well as the work in private and public collections from 1970 to 2009. It illustrates the history and stories of his jewellery, spectacles and Kuhnen’s hollow and flat ware.
A limited edition of this publication containing a work by the artist will also be available.
It was John Denton who accurately if unwittingly summarized the importance of Johannes Kuhnen’s contribution to Australian and international contemporary design. He was speaking at a conference on the future of Australian design at the Australian National University where Johannes Kuhnen has taught for many years. Rightly regarded
as one of Australia’s pre-eminent architects, Denton was speaking about the relationship between design, craft and art and concluded with the following words:
“The key here is old skills alongside new and the
extent to which we abandon old skills will materially
determine the value of design in the future.”
The quality and originality of Kuhnen’s work emphasises this emphatically. Coming from a well developed European tradition, his contribution to Australian silver and jewellery and hence Australian design has been profound and has firmly established it on an international platform. This influence and his importance behind this influence can only continue to grow and develop further.
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Craft Hatch
Ceramic rings by jeweller Deirdre Hoban
Saturday, May 9, 2009
11:00am – 4:00pm
It’s that time of the month again and coming up soon is the Craft Hatch market! It’s filled to the brim with exciting new work from exciting new artists, many of whom will be participating at Craft Hatch for the first time.
From 11am in the Gallery space at the City Library, do drop by to have a look at work from Sandy Bennett, Amy Borrell, Charisse Black, Amy Blue, Verity Copland, Anita Cummins, Lisa Engelhardt, Deirdre Hoban, Naoko Inuzuka, Elspeth Kiddell, Maureen Kiernan, Sue Manski, Jules Musgrove, Jasmine Targett and Chloe Vallance.
A wide range of products will be available (perhaps our widest yet!) and some of the goodies you can expect include fine silver, ceramic and glass jewellery, hand-drawn digital/screenprinted textiles, hand-embroidered hot waterbottle warmers and knitted scarves to keep you warm, adorable toys to cuddle up to, illustrated stationery and clothing that promises to make you never look at a pair of pants in the same way again (as a jacket?!)
Come get some handmade goodness for yourself, or if you’re feeling generous, for your mum.
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LAUNCHING THE FIRST GAFFA BOOK
Short Story #1: An artist-run initiative
Project Space, Gaffa
Thursday 7th May 2009, 6-8pm
The artists featured in this book have all participated in gaffa’s exhibition program over the years, with many of them also contributing their time and support in other ways. Short Story # 1 has been put together with the intention of not only serving as a profile of the space itself, but also to provide a glimpse into some of the fascinating and inspiring practices of the people who have come through here.
Short Story #1 features Gaffa’s program from its beginning in 2006 to December 2008 and is a gorgeous chunky little hardback of 220 pages.
Books can be ordered through Gaffa on the night
$48 each
(20% Discount for orders above 5)
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DIA Student Awards
Jewellery Design
1 Danielle Butters – I Feel
TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute, Design Centre Enmore
2 Joanne Piper – Vertical Landscape
TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute, Design Centre Enmore
3 Bibi Locke – Weeds of National Significance Series 2008
Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
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8th-30th May 2009
metalab1: Phoebe Porter with Location Devices
In 2005 Phoebe relocated from Canberra to live and work in Melbourne. That experience generated this body of work. It was an experience she came to define as being about connectdness; about finding her way in a new city, as well as staying in touch with the place she had left.
metalab2: Gilbert Riedelbauch with Highlights
As much as the mind links an idea with a design solution, the hand connects design to the making process. Making becomes the extension of design and forms the essence of craft.
New technologies play an ever increasing part in Riedelbauch’s working practice. The skillful manipulation of tools and process – the basis of making – is equally important for digital work and require an experienced hand. These augment and expand all aspects from the sketching to the making and assisted by digital technologies.. Using the old together with the new calls for new design solutions and informs the resulting objects. Traditional silversmithing techniques interact with rapid prototyping parts and the virtual 3d space of the CAD program acts like an extension to the workshop.
Riedelbauch’s solo exhibition, Highlights displays a series of exquisitely constructed and designed lights. From applied to sculptural, his work playfully explores
the possibilities of LEDs (light emitting diodes). These highly energy
efficient components are combined with natural and artificial materials
using manual and computer aided making processes. The collection of such materials and processes crafts sculptural objects with distinct personalities.
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Recent Entries
- unnatural, naturally – Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young
- The Ring
- Jiggle Wiggle Wobble Bounce
- A Little Bazaar
- Girls Against Gold, an exhibition by ten female graduates/staff from Design Centre Enmore
- DJURDJICA KESIC – Nomad
- Fink at Object
- GRADUATE METAL 12
- The Finders Keepers – Brisbane and Sydney
- Open Studios Nicholas Building 2009 Event
- Jane Pollard and Pennie Jagiello exhibition opening
Categories
- Avid Gallery (2)
- blank space gallery (1)
- Commissions (1)
- Craft ACT Gallery (5)
- Craft Victoria (12)
- Curtin (3)
- Depot Gallery (2)
- Designer Markets (7)
- Designers Market (8)
- Designersblock (1)
- E.g.etal (1)
- enCounter 24/7 (1)
- Exhibition (27)
- Fingers Gallery NZ (2)
- Form – WA (3)
- Gaffa Gallery (8)
- Gallery 33 (1)
- Gallery Funaki (4)
- Gallery NONA (1)
- Griffith Regional Art Gallery (1)
- Hawkes Bay Gallery (2)
- Heathcote Gallery (1)
- Inform NZ (5)
- Jam Factory (3)
- Jewellers (1)
- JMGA 2010 (1)
- Katherine Kalaf Gallery (1)
- Kick Arts (1)
- Kingfisher Gallery (1)
- Linton Studio Gallery (2)
- Makers Mark (1)
- Masterworks Gallery (1)
- Metalab (7)
- Nicholas Building (1)
- Objectspace (4)
- Oye Modern (1)
- Pablo Fanque Gallery (8)
- Pataka (2)
- Pieces of Eight (7)
- Project Gallery (1)
- reSOURCE (1)
- RMIT (2)
- RMIT School of Art Gallery (2)
- SOFA (1)
- Studio 20/17 (4)
- Studio Ingot (1)
- Sturt Gallery (1)
- The Washhouse Gallery (1)
- Toowoomba Art Gallery (1)
- Turner Gallery (1)
- Velvet da Vinci (1)
- Woodbine Art (1)
