Goings-On in Oz – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board
The Australian jewellery and metalsmithing group is lively, all the time busy pushing boundaries and creating considerate works of nice magnificence and cultural worth. This report provides a snapshot of what’s on now or arising, and it additionally celebrates what’s occurred over the yr. From conferences to main reveals and festivals, the calendar has been full, with a lot nonetheless to return.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
• Famend jeweler Julie Blyfield’s ICON exhibition, Julie Blyfield: Chasing a Ardour, runs via September 14, 2024, in Gallery One of many JamFactory, in Adelaide. Together with an accompanying e book launch, it presents a shocking assortment of latest works by a grasp of chasing and repoussé methods and celebrates one of many nation’s most well-respected makers. Data.
• Gallery Two of the JamFactory hosts Zu Design & Jane Bowden. Bowden established Zu design in 1997. Zu design has showcased the works of over 130 modern jewelers from round Australia, and given makers bench house. On present on this exhibition: work by Jane and Zu design’s present tenants. Data.
• Island Welcome, a bunch exhibition that explores modern jewellery as a gesture of welcome, continues its tour of South Australia. The works poignantly replicate on jewellery’s potential to behave as a car for political dialogue, compassion, and our widespread humanity. Data. Touring schedule.
• In 2025, Grey Road Workshop will have fun its 40th anniversary with the exhibition Lovely Tensions. The companions—Jess Dare, Lisa Furno, Catherine Truman, and Sue Lorraine—are working towards this milestone present and the launch of an accompanying e book. The exhibition will then tour Australia for 3 years. Data.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
• The nineteenth nationwide convention of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (JMGA) shall be hosted by the JMGA – Western Australia department, in Fremantle, October 5–7, 2024. An thrilling program of talks, exhibitions, and workshops is deliberate. Titled Involution: Making Jewelry, Creating Change, the day-long convention, on October 5, will function a spread of talks, together with a panel led by Michelle Broun that includes indigenous Australian makers. Headlining reveals embrace Graduate Metallic XVI, an award exhibition of ultimate yr works from latest graduates of TAFE, college, and polytechnic establishments in Australia and New Zealand 2017–2023; and replicate/refract, a nationwide exhibition of present JMGA member’s work. Data.
TASMANIA
• Tasmanian silversmith and jeweler Sean O’Connell introduced a sequence of superbly designed and made chrome steel kettles produced for the Tasmania Makes exhibition. It was held at Design Tasmania, in Launceston, in February/March 2024. The kettles then headed to Australian Design Centre, in Sydney, the place they had been on present in April/Could. On his Instagram account, O’Connell says his kettles “are made slowly, to final, and so as to add a deep sense of pleasure to the act of boiling water, on daily basis, through the years.” Extra.
• In November, an exhibition curated by Tasmanian makers Rohan Nichol and Sabine Pagin will carry collectively works from the Nationwide Gallery of Australia’s jewellery holdings and the Griffith Regional Artwork Gallery Nationwide Modern Jewelry Award assortment. Comprising round 45 works, the exhibition will tour nationally for 3 years. To study extra, verify the Griffith Regional Gallery’s web site nearer to November (it’s right here).
• Australian jewelers, don’t overlook to enter the Nationwide Modern Jewelry Award biennial award! Purposes are due by September 20, 2024. Data.
QUEENSLAND
• Chantel Fraser’s The Ascended exhibition excursions Queensland in 2024 and 2025. The New Zealand-born Samoan-Australian investigates “the aesthetics of energy and displays on the experiences of the artist’s household and group in class-based discrimination.” Fraser explores ritual and adornment, amongst different themes, utilizing magnificence and ornamentation to lift up objects and supplies affiliated with the working lessons. Her sequence Riot Gear makes use of on a regular basis supplies and protecting gear to assemble physique adornments as a part of an armory. Data.
NORTHERN TERRITORY
• Midway between Australia and New Guinea, within the Torres Straight, lies the distant Mua Island, with its Indigenous artwork middle, Moa Arts. Not too long ago, a few of their artist jewelers have moved from making solely conventional beaded jewellery into bespoke sterling silver items. These items draw from Melanesian mark-making traditions with robust cultural storylines and data, and communicate to historical totemic perception programs and cultural iconography. The works shall be featured on the Cairns Indigenous Artwork Truthful, July 25–28, 2024 (information), and on the Darwin Aboriginal Artwork Truthful, August 6–11, 2024 (information).
NEW SOUTH WALES
• The Australian Design Centre hosts the annual Sydney Craft Week pageant October 11–20, 2024. (Web site for Australian Design Centre. Data for Sydney Craft Week.) It is going to present two modern jewellery exhibitions October 3–November 13, 2024, as a part of its wider programming.
• First, in an exhibition titled Out of Date, Canberra-based maker artist/jeweler Zoe Model will current new work and a choice of works from the previous decade. The works take a wry and humorous method to what it means to be old-fashioned since they’re not solely actually old-fashioned, they had been made in response to concepts and moments as soon as thought of related. Model makes use of ready-mades, quintessential jewellery types, and textual content to discover the act of carrying jewellery as each a efficiency and methodology of communication.
• Additionally on show: the third annual iteration of Remade/Reloved. The exhibition, curated by jeweler Bridget Kennedy, will showcase what artists can do with undesirable and unloved costume jewellery. Remodeling and repurposing this jewellery via inventive considering, the makers write new narratives for the jewels, giving them a second life and an opportunity to be liked as soon as extra.
• Additionally as a part of Sydney Craft Week, the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, NSW department will present works by its members in an exhibition titled Evaluate. React. Reply: Jewellers and Metalsmiths. They are going to examine such themes as craftsmanship, progressive approaches to supplies and concepts, and explorations of magnificence and id. Data.
VICTORIA
• Radiant Pavilion is a spotlight within the South’s jewellery calendar. It celebrates the numerous facets of up to date jewellery and object follow. In its fifth version, September 14–22, 2024, artists from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and the US will showcase their work in 60 occasions throughout Naarm/Melbourne.
The Radiant Pavilion choice committee has assembled a wealthy and wide-ranging program. Listed below are a number of highlights:
• Work from Numbulwar, in South East Arnhem Land, takes the stage in an exhibition titled Curios from Nation. This present contains conventional physique adornment and utilitarian objects made out of each conventional and modern supplies. It explores the intersection between adornment, craftsmanship, utility, and the significance of Nation.
• Additionally in this system, shared:floor, an exhibition that includes seven first nations artists who’ve come collectively to current work. It goals to showcase the experimentation going down in every artist’s work and comes from a basis embedded within the historical custom of storytelling.
• Sound and jewellery will come collectively in two reveals. All Is Intimate will current an set up of sculptural objects and sound by Michaela Pegum. Within the collaborative exhibition Sift, Liv Boyle and Sara Retallick will discover materials exchanges and relations between modern jewellery and sound artwork practices to hint the probabilities of sculptural and sonic assemblages.
For a full record of occasions take a look at Radiant Pavilions’s web site.
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
• Craft + Design Canberra hosts two metals exhibitions via August 24, 2024. Chasing Clouds options new work by Jonathon Zalakos. Zalakos acquired the 2022 Craft and Design Canberra CAPO Award. This allowed him to buy hammer-forming instruments, and the ensuing work explores high-relief chasing and repoussé employed in motifs of cloud-like abstraction. Data.
• 5 Attire for a Wari Goddess reveals work by Ximena Briceño. Briceño works with the Andean iconography of camelids (alpacas, llamas, and vicuñas) in a sequence of steel clothes. Camelid emblems have been represented in crafts for the reason that Pre-Columbian interval in Peru. They now take the stage in 5 clothes made out of titanium, aluminum, and cardboard that discover shade, materiality, and iconography in vogue via an Andean lens. Data.
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