Featuring 100 stories of great Australian women who have broken the barriers in arts, sciences, humanities and sports and 100 brooches made in response to these stories by 100 of Australia's most talented women jewellers, this exhibition celebrates the centenary of International Women's Day.

Curator:…

Guest Lecture no. 1         6.00 pm Tuesday 20 September 2011



Titanium and Laser Techniques for Jewellery Making



Presented by Dr. Margaret Wegener



Are you interested in the possibilities of working with titanium?  

Dr. Margaret Wegener, a lecturer in Physics at the University of Queensland, and a jeweller, will present her investigations into the characteristics of laser welding and surface patterning of titanium.

Margaret will discuss the possibilities…

JMGA-NSW is calling for submissions for Takeaway, an exhibition by members of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia- NSW Inc.

Opening 19^th December 2011 and running through until Christmas Eve at The Depot2, Danks St Waterloo. The…

Frosting Magazine wants to see your designs!!! We are now taking submissions for our Summer issue, so get those high resolution images over to editorial@frostingmagazine.com with a short bio and you could be gracing the pages of the Australian jewellery fashion magazine. www.frostingmagazine.com

First up, please excuse me while I talk about another craft-based online community for a moment. Please don't go! It's for a good cause, an enamel exhibition taking place in May 2012.

I'm here to beg for your help!

I am currently in the running for a $400 (USD) project grant on…

Please join us on Thursday 15th September, 4-6pm to celebrate the opening of this exhibition and the expansion of our little gallery - with a new separate exhibition area and larger retail space. We're very excited as this means we will be able to dedicate more space to exhibiting fabulous…

I received this information yesterday and I'm sure everyone else will want to know about it.

JEMposium:

Jewellery or What

International Jewellery Symposium: 10 - 13 February 2012

JEMposium brings together contemporary jewellers, collectors, curators, critics, and jewellery enthusiasts from New Zealand and abroad to discuss and celebrate the art of…

Christine Erratt, author of the wonderful resource book Marks on Australian Silver 1950 – 2005

has contacted me about some research she is undertaking into Flora on Australian silver, she didn't specify tableware, though this is the usual area of her research.  If this sounds relevent to your work,…