Adorn: Wearable Art & Non-Functional Jewelry
Sept. 26-Oct.25
twocities Gallery Shanghai

Submissions will be accepted until March 30, 2009.
Please contact Studio 20/17 for further information.

Revolutionary: Maximizing the Online Revolution: Websites and Beyond

Topics to be covered this year include:
-Improving Website Performance & Design
-Using Social Networking and Virtual Communities to Drive Business
-The Evolving Role of the Gallery in a Virtual World of Commerce

WHEN: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 TIME: 2-6 pm
WHERE: The Loews Philadelphia Hotel Commonwealth Rooms C & D 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
COST: $10 pre-registration for the entire afternoon; $15 at the door

Pre-REGISTER online starting January 15:
http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/image/homepage/signup/.docs/pg/10034
Scroll down the page to the line that says:
* Pre-Conference Professional Development Seminar
To read about the entire program go here:
http://www.harriete-estel-berman.info/profguidelines/PDS.html

The woods are waiting
in silence quiet and dark – still

Will winter arrive?
- Bo Björkman

Winter

a quietly whispering jewellery and corpus exhibition

PLATINA, ODENGATAN 68, STOCKHOLM

Exhibition runs until January 31, 2009

Artists:

Alidra Alic André de la Porte (denmark), Peter Bauhuis (Germany), Gemma Draper (spain), Iris Eichenberg (the netherlands), Åsa Elmstam (sweden), Gesine Hackenberg (the netherlands), Hanna Hedman (sweden), Manon van Kousvijk (the netherlands), Karen Pontoppidan (Denmark/germany), Anna Rikkinen (finland), Karin Seufert (germany), Monika Strasser (switzerland) and Nelli Tanner (finland).

Winter is the time for thoughtfulness, recovery, lethargy, stillness and close relationships.

With winter comes darkness but lightness, coldness but warm gatherings, moods and ceremonies.

Colours become white and greyish. The days are white and the nights become black.

Winter and Christmas are both characterized by human behaviour. We see it in the demonstration of family relations in the form of various rituals. We also see it in objects that bear a certain colour scale, has some forms, functions and meanings. The use of certain objects become documents of memories. These documents and things play roles that we can not ignore, given how much time and money we spend on them. We could ask ourselves; What objects are best for this winter? What can we, after all, not do without?

The thirteen jewellery and corpus artists in this exhibition are among the most noted craftsmen on the international scene today.

“jewel, labyrinth of dreams” by Francesca Gabrielli

The Gallery 105 ART, participates at the famous exhibition of jewellery: Desideri Preziosi
The event will take place in December and will include among the protagonists Francesca Gabrielli director of the gallery itself, and member of the jury of the event. A chance to admire in a large and sumptuous location the creations of an esteemed goldsmith.
The artist will present her latest collection proposing the personal vision of the theme: “jewel, labyrinth of dreams.”
With a series of performances inspired by natural, roughness and asymmetries Gabrielli reveals her particular propensity for abstract and gestural, never falling in trivial, rhetorical or forcibly extravagant.

29 november – 8 december 2008
10.00 – 22.00

Tempio di Adriano
Piazza di Pietra-Roma
http://www.105art.it

Inform Contemporary Jewellery
158 High St
Christchurch, New Zealand
Until Dec 13th, 2008

This year, for the very first time, the group of jewellers working at the Pieces of Eight studio have been exhibiting together. The exhibition was recently held at Sturt Gallery in Mittagong, NSW and has now travelled to Inform Contemporary Jewellery, Christchurch New Zealand where it will open this coming Tues 25th Nov from 5pm. The exhibition comprises various works made by the workshop residents at Melbourne’s Pieces of Eight Gallery; Nina Ellis, Lucy Folk, Rachel Gorman, Melanie Katsalidis, Krista McRae and Suzi Zutic.

The individual methodology of each artist reveals the diversity of their approaches. For Ellis, it is related to the hardy weeds of the Australian landscape; manifested in blackened steel, silver and sprays of colour. Folk, immerses herself in the colour and pleasures that food inspires, creating a range of delights in joyful ways.

Both Gorman and Katsalidis utilise materials in unconventional ways. Gorman employs ceramic, metal and paint to re-create versions of costume jewellery; playful and colourful. While Katsalidis turns to the beautiful nature of organic pearls, particularly black pearls to assert a contemporary vision of modern day glamour.

In the work of McRae and Zutic, a certain romance exists. McRae draws on the sublimeness of shapes; oxidised silver, set with tiny dark blue sapphires that sparkle like stars. Zutic’s ring series (modelled in wax and set with petite gems) have a timeless quality, like they could have been exposed in the uncovering of an ancient roman dig.

Inform gallery hours: Mon to Fri, 10.30 – 5pm and Sat 10.30 – 4pm. Ph +64 3 366 3893

Art lovers have to opportunity to see two of Australia’s most exciting young makers when ceramicist Shannon Garson and jeweller Rebecca Ward open their exhibition “Made By Hand”. Shannon and Rebecca have created a very special exhibition with an emphasis on individual, classic, environmentally aware porcelain and jewellery.

There are FOUR different times spread over THREE venues leading up to the end of the year.

MADE BY HAND @ MALENY- STUDIO SALE

Sat. Nov. 15, 2008
9am – 4pm
Venue: The Studio
23 Cedar Street, Maleny

MADE BY HAND @ KELVIN GROVE URBAN VILLAGE

Friday Nov. 28, 2008 4pm – 8pm
and
Sat. Nov. 29 2008 9am – 3pm.
Venue: Shop R5b, The Village Centre
corner Musk Ave. and Caraway St.
Kelvin Grove Urban Village
Undercover parking available via Ramsgate Street (free on weekends).

MADE BY HAND @ GOMA
Gallery Store Christmas Design Market

Sat. Dec. 6, 2008 9am – 5pm
Venue: Gallery Store forecourt
GoMA – Gallery of Modern Art
Stanley Place, South Brisbane

Last bird, 2006. Brooch, silver, paint, onyx, sapphire by Helen Britton

Helen Britton completed a Master of Fine Arts by research at Curtin University, Western Australia in 1999, which included guest studies at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich, the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and San Diego State University in California. In 1999 she returned to Munich to complete a postgraduate study project at the Academy of Fine Arts with Professor Otto Künzli. In 2002 she established her workshop in Munich with David Bielander and Yutaca Minegishi. Her work is held in the National gallery of Australia, in the Pinakothek der Modern, Munich, the Schmuck Museum Pforzheim and in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others . In 2005 Helen was awarded the Herbert Hofmann prize for excellence in contemporary jewellery and in 2006 the state prize of Bavaria for craftsmanship. In 2007 Helen Britton was artist in residence in the city of Erfurt, Germany, and in 2008 was invited into Exempla at the International Craft fair in Munich.

Christmas Showcase – Gifts of Wearable Art Exhibition
at Studio 20/17, Dank Street Galleries, Waterloo
Nov.15-Dec.20 2008
Opening drinks: Sat. Nov.15, 2008 4-6pm

Sometimes the best way to show your love is to give the gift of hand crafted. Designed for gifting to the one you love, the seductive contemporary wearable art pieces will be available at Studio 20/17 Sydney’s premiere art space, within the renowned Danks Street galleries.

The festive season for 2008 is about a return to the hand crafted, the beauty of well made design and above all individuality and personality. Through their Christmas showcase, Studio 20/17 gives you the opportunity to give a gift this year that reaches above the everyday, merging design, art and craft.

The creative haven of Studio 20/17 is run by two of Sydney’s contemporary jewellery and object makers – Bridget Kennedy and Melanie Ihnen.
Their tiny blended studio gallery and workshop pays homage to the Waterloo postcode in which it’s situated.

17 artists have been selected to display their works in this exhibition of gifts of wearable art. The artists are based in Sydney, Melbourne and Japan, and include:

Bridie Lander
Jeweller and designer whose organic forms are made using silver with semi precious crushed stones applied to the surface. The works reflect her ongoing interest in biological molecular science.

Yuji Kono
Creator of intricate, highly crafted enamel and gemstone work.

Sian Edwards
Designer of baked enamel mild steel pieces whose stories are based about the tale of Leda and the Swan.

Kimberly Williams
Her pendants, earrings and bangles reinterpret the intricate history of woven hair.

Danielle Butters
A jeweller who brings to the Studio a colourful and playful ‘lapidary club series’.

 
Bridget Kennedy
Bridget has recently completed an advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design at The Design Centre where she was awarded the College Achievement Award and the Jewellery and Object Design Award (access residency). She was a finalist in the 2006 Hobart Art Prize. Bridget was most recently the winner of the Emerging Artist Category in JMGA’s Profile Exhibition.

 
Melanie Ihnen
While undertaking her Advanced Diploma in Jewellery & Object Design at the Design Centre, Enmore Melanie was awarded a Foundation for young Australian Scholarship and in 2002 she was awarded the college achievement award. Melanie has completed a residency at Pyrmont jewellery studios and received a Craft in-site grant to exhibit. Her work is placed in galleries throughout Australia and she continues to exhibit widely.

Ross Buchanan
Ross Buchanan is a photographer who tries to find via his photographs the calmness that eludes him in his full-time career as a lawyer.