Archive for March, 2009

A solo exhibition by Justine Austen – Monster Zoo – jewellery and wearable curiosities, opens at 6pm on the 17th of April at KickArts, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns, Queensland. The exhibition will be open 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday until the 6th of June, entry is free. “The show is all about the little [...]


Fingers 20th April – 2nd May 2009 Decorative Tea tins speak of rich histories of trade in commodity, culture and visual arts between Orient and Occident. Pierced, folded and reconstructed, these brooches pay tribute to cultural exchange in the age of the Asian supermarket and the $2 shop. “The use of ‘found objects’ is prevalent [...]


Gallery 1: Craft ACT 26 March to 2 May 2009


The JMGA (Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia) Conference will be in Perth 9-11 April, 2010 with workshops in the three days preceding and the week following. The conference brings together practitioners, educators, collectors, critics and cultural theorists for three days of discussion, debate, interaction and the exchange of ideas. The Conference Committee is sourcing [...]


Opening 2nd April, 6pm to 8pm metalab1 Linda van Niekerk Balance Thinking of herself as a conceiver of wearable sculpture rather than a jeweller van Niekerk’s work is bold, visually striking and deceptively simple. In this body of work van Niekerk explores the fundamentals of ‘Balance’ in several of its guises; shape, proportion, material, colour, [...]


Cut by Adelaide contemporary jeweller Kath Inglis is her first solo exhibition in Sydney. Pablo Fanque 24 March to 11 April 2009 Inglis transforms PVC to create precious works by colouring and hand carving designs into the surface to catch and reflect light. Cut is a new collection of jewellery inspired by eclectic sources, which [...]


16 – 28 March 2009 Avid Gallery Wellington, New Zealand Tatjana Panyoczki is one of New Zealand’s foremost innovative jewellers.


Entries Now Open – new for 2009 – Jewellery Design Australasian Student Design Awards 2009 Sustainable Design – design for the environment Calling all emerging designers. this much-acclaimed and keenly contested DIA awards program gives design students and institutions the chance to show their best work to the entire country and win valuable prizes. The [...]


Galerie fur Angewandte Kunst, BKV, Munich 19.Feb.2009 – 28.Mar.2009 There will be special opening hours for the exhibition “Somewhere Else Completely” at the BKV to coincide with the International Handwerks Fair. On Sunday the 15th of March, the gallery will be open from 11am till 5pm. Helen Britton will be there from 12.30 onwards. Helen [...]


Gallery Funaki March 10 to April 4, 2009 References to botanical sources and collections have inspired and influenced the design of my jewellery and vessel work. We are currently living in drought conditions and must conserve our limited supplies of water. In our gardens and surrounding environment, trees are dying and the landscape is changing. [...]


10 – 21 March 2009 Avid Gallery Wellington, New Zealand Barry Clarke is a well established artist and jeweller, living and working in Christchurch. He has exhibited at AVID over many years, his latest exhibition, “The Boat Show” features his painting. Barry produces sculpture in bronze and silver. His jewellery is always popular and we [...]


Metalab ; 6th March – 29th March 2009 Recent graduate from the Design Centre Enmore and recipient of The Jewellery and Object Design Award, Sonya Scott makes a strong, bold entrance onto the silversmithing scene in her first solo exhibition.


New Zealand Jeweller Sophie Taylor-Brockie has been selected to exhibit at Talente 2009, Europe’s most prestigious craft, design and technology exhibition. Sophie’s work will be shown alongside other talented, young and emerging jewellery makers under the age of 30. Creative New Zealand is pleased to support Sophie to attend Talente which will take place in [...]


Stephen Gallagher at Pablo Fanque until March 14, 2009 Melancholic Nites / Arcadian Daze by Melbourne based artisan Stephen Gallagher is a dazzling part of the 2009 Sydney Mardi Gras Cultural Festival and signals a dynamic development of the artist’s respected practice.The exhibition of exquisite accoutrements reflects upon the spirit of the Elizabethan Era, its [...]


24th Feb – 14th March 09 Inform Contemporary Jewellery Christchurch


Located within the exciting arts hub at 2 Danks St in Waterloo, Studio 20/17 is a combined gallery/workshop in a complex containing 9 other Contemporary Art galleries. We are currently accepting proposals for our 2009 and 2010 exhibition program. We are also accepting proposals from contemporary jewellery artists for two group exhibitions:- Paper/Text. The exhibition [...]


Heathcote Museum and Gallery Friday 30 January – Sunday 1 March 2009 Precious Makers: New Works in Contemporary Jewellery Carrie McDowell, Brenda Ridgewell and Carolyn Gorman are contemporary artists using jewellery as their medium. Contemporary jewellery pieces are not only stylish and unique conversation pieces, but works with artistic integrity. The exhibition consists of exclusive, [...]


Pablo Fanque 3-14 February, 2009 Anna Davern has reinvented the Rock. The artist’s pop response to jewellery gives us a dramatic new take on the precious just in time for Valentine’s Day.


metalab1 Sim Luttin Hint of a Memory metalab2 Michelle Kelly Fifth Kingdom



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