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Secrets of the Gem TradeA selection of around 60 jewels created from the 1960s up to the present by Fausto Maria Franchi on display through Jan. 31, 2010.
http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/mostre/mostra.asp?id=186
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Precious Artefacts - Fausto Maria Franchi
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Happy Blue Moon New Year! Will attempt to update the Metalcyberspace blog on a more regular basis in 2010.
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Adorn: Wearable Art & Non-Functional Jewelry
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Featuring the work of 10 emerging Chinese and international artists in the field of contemporary jewelry
Adorn: Wearable Art & Non-Functional Jewelry
Sept. 26-Oct.25
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Just say no to discounts
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I agree with this video. High end and unique is the way to go.
For more on these artists:
Susan Sarantos
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Metalcyberspace on facebook networking contemporary jewellers
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Hello Everyone,
I have set up the Metalcyberspace facebook page so please join the page and add some images of your jewelry/metalsmithing to the photos section. Be sure to include a link to your website along with the photos so people can find out more about your work.
Also, please post your events and announcements that you wish to share on the wall.I have also created a personal page for my jewelry designs. Please join this too.
I highly recommend that you take advantage of this feature and set a page up for yourself. Just go to the bottom left corner of my page and click the “Create a page” link, fill out the information and you are done. Be sure to pick the correct category and name as you cannot change those later on without deleting and starting over. Have fun!
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so fresh. the jewellery award by Pierre Lang 09
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On the lookout for a fresh approach to jewellery design
so fresh. the jewellery award by Pierre Lang 09
For the fourth time, the 10.000,00-euro prize – so fresh. the jewellery award by Pierre Lang – awaits for extraordinary contemporary jewellery design.
Entry deadline is 22 February 2009.Invited to apply are jewellery, fashion and product designers living in Europe, as well as students and trainees in their last year of studies who deal intensively with jewellery design.
The award-winner and two further talents chosen from the pool of applicants will be invited to Vienna to publicly present the selected works at the 9 festival for fashion and photography, and a publication will be produced to showcase the work.
so fresh. the jewellery award by Pierre Lang was initiated in 2006 by the Pierre Lang jewellery company and Unit F büro für mode as a way to foster up-and-coming talent and sustainably support the careers of promising jewellery designers. The goal is to seek out refreshing new approaches to jewellery design and to raise awareness amongst the public at large of the myriad forms jewellery can take.
Today, jewellery is more exciting, diverse and personal than ever.
A new generation of jewellery designers is taking a fresh look at the long history of jewellery, or purposefully setting off in completely new directions.Jewellery has taken on a much higher profile in fashion as well. Hardly a designer can be found who doesn’t send his or her creations down the catwalk accessorized with jewellery. In national and international fashion magazines jewellery has long since become much more than just the icing on the fashion cake. Contemporary jewellery design is providing new inspiration and inventing surprising ways to adorn the body.
This is where so fresh. the jewellery award by Pierre Lang comes in, recognizing jewellery design that enhances and enriches our conventional notion of what jewellery is and can be.
Details on the award, the contest, past years’ winners and photos can be found at http://www.sofreshaward.com/
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Pieces of Eight at Inform Contemporary Jewellery
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Opening Night Tues Nov 25th, from 5pm
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
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Made by Hand - Fine Porcelain by Shannon Garson & Contemporary Jewellery by Rebecca Ward
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Fine Porcelain and Contemporary Jewellery
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, MalenyMADE BY HAND @ KELVIN GROVE URBAN VILLAGE
Friday Nov. 28, 2008 4pm – 8pm
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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 MarketSat. Dec. 6, 2008 9am – 5pm
Venue: Gallery Store forecourt
GoMA – Gallery of Modern Art
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METAL Inclinations International Online Exhibition
Stacey Webber- “Society for Midwest Metalsmiths First Place Award”
Vina Rust- “Hauser and Miller Second Place Award”
Helen Carnac- “Rio Grande Third Place Award”
Miel-Margarita Paredes- “Pasternak Award of Merit”
Namu Cho- “Pasternak Award of Merit”
Molly Epstein- “Pasternak Award of Merit”
Jillian Moore- “Pasternak Award of Merit”Fifty images including 7 award winners have been selected for the exhibition by jurors Michael Monroe, Marilyn da Silva and Susie Ganch. The Society for Midwest Metalsmiths 2008-09 METAL Inclinations exhibition includes selections of the most exemplary fine metal art created by metalsmiths, silversmiths, goldsmiths and jewelers from all over the world. The exhibition will remain online for one year.
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Show your love / Christmas 2008 at Studio 20/17
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 4-6pmSometimes 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.