Have You Heard – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

August 2023, Half 2

Artwork Jewellery Discussion board is happy to share the information that members of our group discover noteworthy. Is one thing lacking? The success of this compilation of compelling occasions, information, and gadgets of curiosity to the jewellery group is dependent upon YOUR participation. Should you’re a member of AJF on the Silver stage or above, you possibly can add information and concepts to this bi-monthly report by going here. Should you aren’t a member, however want to grow to be one, be a part of AJF here.
Listings gathered with help from Carrie Yodanis.

WIN $7,500 AND AN EXHIBITION IN MUNICH!
AJF’s Younger Artist Award acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality, and advances the careers of rising artists. Artists aged 35 and beneath could apply for this worldwide prize in modern artwork jewellery, which incorporates US$7,500 for the winner, in addition to an exhibition throughout Schmuck, in March 2024, for the winner and 4 finalists, who will every obtain $1,000. Purposes accepted via November 6, 2023. Info.

THREE AJF LIVE EVENTS COMING SOON

AJF Reside with Sulo Bee, October 2, 2023
AJF Reside with Khanya Mthethwa. The winner of the Susan Beech Mid-Profession Grant will probably be our visitor on October 25, 2023
AJF Reside Goes to South Africa, November 1, 2023

Mark your calendar! Registration hyperlinks to return quickly.

WANT TO TAKE IN A JEWELRY-RELATED EVENT?
From trunk reveals to jewellery weeks to lectures, symposia, and all the pieces in between. See the record here.

FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover these listings and plenty of, many extra on our dedicated exhibition page:

Terhi Tolvanen, via August 26 at Ornamentum
A Fracturing Practice: Patricia Domingues, at Brooklyn Metallic Works via the top of August
Earrings Galore, at Pistachios Up to date Artwork Jewellery via September 10
Grab Bag, at BJC August 25–September 29
Helena Sandström, at Four September 1–30, 2023
Jamie Bennett: Ten Thousand Hours, Sienna Patti, Lenox, MA, August 19–October 8
Story Hunters: Jana Machatovà & Peter Machata, at Thereza Pedrosa Gallery September 23–October 22

SEE GRAB BAG EXHIBITION, AT BJC: AUGUST 25–SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Amelia Toelke works throughout mediums to discover the distinctive relationship between id, tradition, and decoration. Jewellery is a profound a part of being human. Because it slips on and off our fingers and passes from one technology to the following, it performs highly effective and complicated social features, speaking who we’re and who we wish to be. In Seize Bag, Toelke presents wearable objects alongside works on paper. Considered collectively, charms, chains, and gems are jewellery and image concurrently. The compositions each substitute and transcend the shape and performance of language, leaving fleeting echoes of exuberance and sentimentality. More.

UTE DECKER & CHRISTOPHE TISSOT TO PRESENT NEW WORKS AT PARCOURS BIJOUX: OCTOBER 3–29, 2023
In Ute Decker & Christophe Tissot: Changement D’échelle/A Query Of Scale, the artists will for the primary time exhibit non-wearable sculptures in direct dialogue with their sculptural jewels. The present takes place at Galerie Cipango, in Paris, Saint Germain, as a part of Parcours Bijoux, with the opening on October 4, 5–9:30 p.m. Throughout all of October, Paris would be the setting for a panorama of French and worldwide artwork jewellery, scattered throughout numerous venues within the capital. The triennial occasion brings collectively almost 50 occasions devoted to modern jewellery.

PHOTOGRAPHER KIM NUNNELEY TALKS TO THE JEWELRY JOURNEY
Nunneley has developed a distinct segment as a jewellery photographer. She has labored for main jewellery firms, together with Kim Alexis. Listen to the podcast to study what makes jewellery so troublesome to {photograph}, get ideas, learn how Nunneley makes gems look shiny, sparkly, and colourful, and extra.

LEONOR HIPÓLITO’S JEWELRY WAS IN THE POPE’S CHAMBER
When Pope Francis visited Lisbon originally of August, town ready two completely different sacristies for him. One contained conventional Portuguese furnishings, however the different was trendy and included a chunk of latest jewellery by Leonor Hipólito. The curatorship was by Barbara Coutinho (MUDE – LISBON Design Museum), who consulted with Marta Costa Reis, the chair of PIN (the Portuguese modern Jewelry affiliation) to assist with the selection. The piece is in MUDE’s assortment.

AN OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF ESTEEMED JEWELRY MAKER KADRI MÄLK
Mälk based the charitable basis Noor Ehe/Younger Estonian Jewelry in 2008 to assist the work of recent, excellent younger jewelers in Estonia. After her loss of life at age 64 in January, the inspiration folded, with all funds transferring to the Kadri Mälk Basis, established on the Estonian Nationwide Tradition Basis this Could. It goals “to assist jewellery artists who’ve confirmed themselves, or who’ve began their artistic journey,” to assist them in self-enrichment and in reaching skilled perfection by way of grants. Mati Sirkel, Mälk’s widower, wrote to present financial institution data for donations. You’ll find it here, on the Estonian Nationwide Tradition Basis’s web site.

A BRIEF PICTORIAL HISTORY OF BLING
Hip-hop is celebrating 50 years of existence. Its story could be instructed via the evolution of the jewellery worn by its musical artists. More.

CORINNA GARDNER WILL GIVE MARJAN UNGER LECTURE 2023: NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Gardner is senior curator of Design and Digital on the V&A. The V&A’s Speedy Response Accumulating program collects objects in a approach that seeks to boost questions of globalization, mass manufacture, demography, and the legislation—for instance, camera-enabled sun shades that mark a step towards ubiquitous computing and posters calling for solidarity with the ladies’s rights motion in Iran. This speak will make a case for designed issues and their skill to inform social and political tales. More.

LECTURES FROM FRANÇOISE VAN DEN BOSCH FOUNDATION: NOVEMBER 12, 2023
The foundation will current A Sunday Speak with Françoise, a day of lectures, on the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. This system isn’t but finalized, nevertheless it’s confirmed that Namita Gupta Wiggers will give one of many lectures. Instantly afterward, Chequita Nahar will probably be introduced with the Françoise van den Bosch Prize.

GEORGINA TREVIÑO IN THE MEDIA AGAIN!
Georgina Trevino and Ozzie Juarez’s new gravel and cubic zirconia-encrusted jewellery and accent assortment are featured in an LA Instances article that asks, “What if a jewellery assortment might truly flip your physique right into a sculpture?” More.

ALTA FORMA GALLERY OPENS IN MELBOURNE
The curated undertaking area gallery—directed by Dr. Meredith Turnbull—options artists working in expanded jewellery and object-based practices. It goals to assist early-career to established artists to provide and current experimental, socially engaged, and conceptual artworks for exhibition. Website.

ARNOLDSCHE WILL HOST WEEKEND ART GALLERY #14: SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
In Sharp Edges and Light Curves, the writer will characteristic jewellery by Deganit Stern Schocken (Israel) and ceramics by Monika Debus. More.

FREDDIE MERCURY’S JEWELRY GOES TO AUCTION: SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Diamond jewellery is garnering a number of consideration among the many gadgets being auctioned throughout a week-long Sotheby’s extravaganza dedicated to Queen’s singer. However the Dearest e-newsletter highlighted a comparatively humble German coiled silver snake chain bangle with inexperienced glass eyes that “virtually co-stars within the 1975 music video for Bohemian Rhapsody.” More, and nonetheless more. The tons are on view in London; see solely the jewellery on Sotheby’s web site by going here, or soak up your entire public sale here, in case you wish to purchase the star’s backyard door … sure, his door!

CLEVER BOX PERFECTLY SUITS ITS JEWEL
Dearest additionally featured an vintage stick pin within the form of a shotgun shell. It’s French and dates from the late 19^th-century, when novelty jewellery was all the trend there. The most effective a part of this lapis, gold, diamond, and enamel bauble is its case, a “crate” stamped with the phrases “EXPLOSIFS” and “DANGEREUX”! See more photos from vintage jewellery seller Max Michelson.

JOANA VASCONSELOS COOKED UP A COLOSSAL CONFECTION
The Portuguese artist began as a jeweler however has grow to be a sculptor recognized for super-sized works. Her Marriage ceremony Cake, a pavilion formed like a three-tiered dessert, opened just lately on the UK’s Waddesdon Manor. The folly continues the customized of inserting fanciful buildings in gardens and landscapes. More.

A CLASS ON MAKING GRILLZ IS SOLD OUT
Melvin Faria and David Ogunlaye will educate a two-day course on ornamental tooth coverings crafted in gold, silver, and platinum at London’s K2 Academy of Up to date Jewelry in September.

PARTY HONORS “INDEPENDENT” JEWELRY DESIGNERS
Visitors gathered at Montauk’s Surf Lodge whose on-site boutique stocked curated collections from six up-and-coming and various jewellery designers Harwell Godfrey, Lorraine West, Maggi Simpkins, MATEO, Ten Thousand Issues, and WWAKE. Congrats, nevertheless it looks like the jewelers in our area higher match the outline of “unbiased.” DeBeers sponsored the dinner for them. More.

BRITISH MUSEUM FIRES EMPLOYEE AFTER JEWELRY GOES MISSING
Jewellery, gems, and glass courting way back to the fifteenth century have been stolen from a museum storeroom. More. Satirically, most of the establishment’s holding have been looted from different nations throughout Britain’s imperial previous.