- The winner of the Younger Artist Award receives a prize of US$7,500, and every of 4 finalists will get US$1,000.
- The winner and finalists will even be featured in an exhibition throughout Schmuck, in March 2024.
- AJF’s Younger Artist Award advances the careers of rising artists by acknowledging promise, innovation, and individuality. Up to date jewellery artists aged 35 and beneath are invited to use for this worldwide prize in modern artwork jewellery, which is held each two years.
AJF will settle for purposes by November 6, 2023. Go here to get the rules and to use.
The jury for this award cycle consists of Ted Noten, Atty Tantavit, and Mallory Weston, who received the 2022 Younger Artist Award.
Marta Costa Reis: First, a little bit background. Please clarify the way you had been launched to modern jewellery.
Ted Noten: I began making jewellery from silver wire and shells/beads after I was touring to India and Africa on the finish of the 70s, and Athens was the doorway to all these nations.
I noticed a German man making his work and he seen my curiosity. He was my first trainer. Two days later I used to be sitting on the road aspect beside him and promoting my stuff, organized on a bit of velvet, for $5 to $7 every.
A number of years later I went to the artwork faculty with my stuff and so they had been a bit shocked that I had the center to come back in with this artisanal work. However they believed in me and gave me the prospect to broaden my craft. Three years later I went to the Rietveld Academie, in Amsterdam, as a result of the crafting was not sufficient for me. I needed to work conceptually and to discover my creative aspect.
What do you do now in relation to jewellery? You at the moment have a brand new exhibition in Amstelveen, within the Netherlands. Inform us about that.
Ted Noten: By the years I’ve strived to broaden jewellery ideas and in addition to carry jewellery into a brand new context. The exhibition at Museum JAN is a combined media one the place jewellery finds its equals, which means for me {that a} ring can compete with a portray. It’s not the hierarchic place (by the ages) that defines [the work]—it’s its high quality. Someplace in historical past, jewellery misplaced its significance. Within the Renaissance we had been the highest rankers.
These previous couple of years have seen quite a lot of disruption and uncertainty. What surprises you most in the best way youthful generations reply to the fast-changing world round them?
Ted Noten: Primarily I see a willingness in these chaotic occasions the place utterly different drives are occurring than I had after I began. First, our technology was fortunate, with passionate collectors and gallery homeowners—most of them have stopped because of age or, unhappy to say, they went to heaven—whereas a youthful collectors group has hardly come into being. Additionally, at the moment, there was a respect from the artwork world starting for our work. Up to date jewellery might compete, might add [to the conversation]. Additionally at the moment we had been extra targeted on AutorenSchmuck (creator jewellery). Now youthful makers are extra involved with context and id: LGBTQI, inclusivity, and so on., and so on.
Additionally, after I began there was no web—no computer systems, no menace of a world that’s doomed to “die.” The long run is rather more unsure.
What do you assume is the only most essential dialog for artists to be having in the present day?
Ted Noten: How one can place your self in new contexts. The gallery system is dying, and we’ve to seek out new markets, new collaborations, new horizons. And even when you have got an exquisite, essential idea, nonetheless the craftsmanship needs to be there.
Apart from grants corresponding to this one, in what different methods do you assume that younger artists may be inspired and supported?
Ted Noten: There needs to be extra overlapping, extra collaborations with jewellery individuals—collaborating offers new potentialities. (Additionally, the style world nonetheless sees us as competitors.) Additionally settle for and understand that being an artist these days just isn’t solely making. It’s advertising/PR/how one can talk/how one can combine new methods/and so on., and so on., and so on. You can not have 20 abilities and run all the pieces your self.
