Cate Salter's Blog – April 2009 Archive (17)

Click here to view this insightful documentary on Melbourne based jeweller Julia deVille by InFrame.tv.

Marion Hosking

Gallery Funaki

May 5 to May 30, 2009

Whether sampling actual fragments of nature, or the forms of material culture derived from nature, Hosking’s work presents glimpses only: tantalisingly close (in terms of the direct casting process) and yet out of reach; somehow translated into a… Continue

A group exhibition of jewellery
Thu, 7 May 09 - Wed, 27 May 09
Masterworks Gallery Ponsonby, New Zealand

Preview Wednesday 6 May 2009 from 5.30pm
Pauline Bern Peter Deckers Sharon Fitness Craig McIntosh
Frances Stachl Mia Straka Lisa Walker

www.masterworksgallery.com

12 artists jewellers. An aesthetic lexicon

Lucca Preziosa, Italy

23-Apr-2009 - 17-May-2009

Robert Baines

Lisa Walker

Sally Marsland

Maria Cristina Bergesio, curator. Lucca Preziosa is the prestigious European exhibition devoted to contemporary research jewellery.…

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Lark Book Deadlines

Iron Wire Jewelry

Author: Brenda Schweder

Editor: Marthe Le Van

Entry deadline: April 27, 2009

If you’re a talented, skilled jewelry designer working with iron, Lark Books needs you! We’re seeking high-quality images for the gallery section of Iron Wire Jewelry, to be released in Fall 2010. Send us pictures of your best earrings,… Continue

Sydney based jewellery designer Marta Niegowska's Bilingual jewellery label is up for the accessory design award at the inaugural Fashion Palette Event! In addition, Bilingual is also on the list for the people's choice category. So if you have a moment to spare please support her & place your vote for Bilingual… Continue

Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

April 23rd - May 5th 2009

Contemporary Metal-work, jewellery & object, from Norway, Finland and Sweden

Maria Borjesson, Pamela Wilson, Anne Pfeffer Gjenedal, Matti Mattsson and

Harri Syrjanen



Scandinavian Reflections brings together five jewellery artists whose

practises are physically and aesthetically connected by water… Continue

A first jewellery exhibition by Sydney artist Sassy Park.

Pablo Fanque, Paddington, Sydney

14 April to 2 May 2009

This exhibition is a departure from Park’s earlier colourful pieces depicting everyday images and characters from her surroundings. Inspired by fables and morality tales, illustrations from childhood stories and love songs these new pieces evoke a playful nostalgia… Continue

THE BEST AND FRESHEST UPCOMING DESIGNERS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA

Object Gallery Surrey Hills, Sydney

18 April - 21 June 2009 The crème de la crème of design graduates from across the country will be unveiled this Saturday at Object's gallery when Design Now! 2009 opens to the public.



Design Now! has firmly established itself as the most important platform for Australia's up and…

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WANT TO EXHIBIT AT OBJECT'S GALLERY?



Calling all jewellers! Precious Pendants, an exhibition in Object's Project Space later this year is inviting makers from across Australia at any level of career to submit one piece for possible inclusion in the exhibition. A judging panel will select the successful 40 applicants. For more information on submission details please email exhibition curator Kylie Johnston at gallery@object.com.au





Submissions close 21 August 2009… Continue

Seven Designers & Midland Atelier

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

llicit Making tells the stories of Midland Atelier through work by six Western Australian jewellers, woven together with an installation by renowned artist Emma Davies. From pieced together, intimate aspects of the Midland Railway Workshops past life as a centre for industrial training, design and making, to Midland Atelier's exciting future as a creativity and… Continue

Featured artist - Sydney based jeweller Melinda Young.

Take a ball of thread........

rolls into Adelaide at Zu Design, Gays Arcade Balcony from 17 April - 15 May 2009.

http://melindayoung.net/

http://www.pinkthreadjewels.blogspot.com/

Melinda Young is a…

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Robert Baines

Katherine Wheeler

Melbourne Hollow Ware is a mix of personal philosophy and material practice.

The culture of vessel making is a visual culture. Expressing visual intelligence with manual dexterity the makers in this exhibition have taken their philosophical cues from intricate and complex structures while others draw on more obscure references of jewellery history and in one case an Australian indigenous system of knotting. Each…

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RMIT Postgraduate Student Exhibiton at Galerie Marzee

Natalia Milosz-Piekarska

Cluster

Lucy Hearn

White Wing Brooch Pink

www.marzee.nl/

Galerie Marzee

Lage Markt 3 / Waalkade 4

6511 VK Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Jewellery is a bearer of cultural and historical meaning and memory. In particular it is concerned…

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Peter Deckers is a New Zealand based jeweller, educator and curator,

originally from the Netherlands.

"Ideas rather than beauty drive Decker's practice. Not that his

objects aren't exquisite, but what's distinctive here is that his

work is often (and when it is most successful)… Continue

This weekend we've got a ton of new fresh talent waiting to be showcased, for example environmentally-conscious clothing and bags by Penny Walker-Keefe, jewellery by Matt Nicholls and beautiful organic accessories and garments by Elena Lo.



We're also welcoming back old favourite Brittany Veitch and her range of macabre accessories and softies. Other stallholders that we'll be welcoming back include: Myf Kemp of Fontok, Christiane Poulos of Le… Continue

Inform

10th March - 14th April 09

Inform Contemporary Jewellery



“I am fascinated with flowers; specifically the rose; its manufactured sentimentality, vast symbolism and its long-standing history in jewellery and adornment.

These brooches push and play with dimension, scale and subject; which when worn charm both the wearer and the viewer”.



www.informjewellery.co.nz



58 High Street Christchurch

Canterbury… Continue