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25.01.2022 Dont miss your chance to have a say on the #heritage significance of the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo. Take our short survey https://bit.ly/2Wsce7N. Closes Friday 8 May, 5pm AET. #HeritageAtHome

24.01.2022 Submissions close Sunday 10th May Midnight $1,000 grants for artists https://myerfoundation.org.au//national-assistance-progra/

23.01.2022 Now's the time to show everyone what you made during lockdown! Opportunities for 20/ 2021. If you want more details on any of these events please email Google. ... #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #goldsmith #australiandesign #australianjewellery #lighting #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #adelaide #jmgaprofile #adelaidedesigner #bkv #bridgetkennedy #exhibition #object #talente #nationalcontemporaryjewelleryaward #danielamalev #tempcontemp See more

23.01.2022 Bridget Kennedy Guess whats in the window 1 July 7 August 2020 24/7 Is it Art, is it entertainment, is it a fundraiser? Either way, youre in with a chance to win $300!... Click to guess - https://bridgetkennedy.com.au//whats-in-the-window-guessi/ After packing up my workshop in the early days of the pandemic to bunker down at home, bake bread, and teach my daughter to play chess whilst juggling the challenges of online schooling and pivoting business and personal projects, it occurred to me that the participatory/community aspect of my exhibition practice had been wiped out by Covid. Id just started researching another large installation in the Just Help yourself why dontcha and Choice Mate series. All my large installation work relies on people touching, picking up, putting down and taking my work. What a great way to spread germs. So how do I incorporate a mist of metho or a fog of hand sanitiser into the concept? I thought. The space and relationship between the body and the object is an integral part of my practice but the latest brand of hand sanitiser wasnt going to be part of the solution. Development and research takes time and $$. Unfortunately my applications for government COVID grants have been knocked back and theres only so much I can do on my own. So in a bid to be proactive, Ive reworked Just Help yourself Why Dontcha, and a conceptual neckpiece (the origins of my love affair with beeswax) into a guessing competition and fundraiser. In the original work, the participant exchanged $5 for a beeswax ring, often after spending considerable time on the floor trying to work out which ones had gold and silver in them. This time, rather than touching the work, its been transformed into a guessing competition: How many rings are in the window? For only $5, youll be in with a chance to win a $300 gift voucher to the projectspace which can be redeemed online, instore, for workshops, remakeries or commissions. (It cant be exchanged for cash and the winner will be announced when all tickets have been sold). You can wander by the gallery at 53 Ridge St North Sydney, watch the video online (over and over - https://youtu.be/Ps7WFZsr9M8), or just take a random guess. For the price of a coffee, youll be helping an artist research her creative practice out of a Covid crisis, as well as be in the running for $300 in contemporary jewellery bling. Come on, support local art and take a guess - https://bridgetkennedy.com.au//whats-in-the-window-guessi/ Please share and help spread the word.

23.01.2022 \\SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT// Pierre Cavalan Like a double agent performing a discrete act of espionage or trompe-loeil, Pierre Cavalan accesses an imaginary portal of his own creating between jewellery and sculpture. This vacillation between scale and media reflects the sensation of viewing life through an inverted spyglass and begs the question Is this jewellery or is it sculpture? ... Finding his medium in the mid 1970s within the rigorous confines of traditional jewellery, Pierre Cavalan began to explore narrative within his medium. By insinuating found objects, badges and cutlery into his forms he managed to create subtly aesthetic wearable political statements. Cavalans use of found objects finds a unity within the fusion of precious and recycled metals. This amalgam of valuable and seemingly worthless objects transform, by a sleight of hand on the jewellers workbench, into wry socio-political commentary. Committed to exploring the many possibilities that come from working with recycled materials. Badges, buttons, medals, imitation gemstones, fragments of costume jewellery and metal cast-offs have all been incorporated into his work, which has won several major awards and commissions. His practice reflects not only his attitude towards recycling and sustainability but also his deep appreciation for the history of the materials that he uses. Pierre will be in conversation through Zoom with Giedymin Jablonski Tuesday 14th July 6.30pm (Sydney time). The link has been emailed to members. See more

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21.01.2022 Nows the time to show everyone what you made during lockdown! Opportunities for 20/ 2021. If you want more details on any of these events please email Google. ... #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #goldsmith #australiandesign #australianjewellery #lighting #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #adelaide #jmgaprofile #adelaidedesigner #bkv #bridgetkennedy #exhibition #object #talente #nationalcontemporaryjewelleryaward #danielamalev #tempcontemp See more

20.01.2022 \\SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT// An inventive and exceptionally skilled creator of contemporary jewellery and objects, which have been extensively exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, Johannes Kuhnen has been at the forefront of contemporary metalwork in Australia for many years. His pioneering use of anodised aluminium for jewellery in Germany in the mid-1970s, expertise which he continued to develop in Australia, remains his particular legacy. He has also brought his... experience of European Modernism, art and design and its spirit of innovation to Australia, and has fostered the talents of his many students at the School of Art, Australian National University (ANU), where he has taught gold and silversmithing since 1984. Demonstrably, his influence on craft-based designed in Australia has been considerable. #jmga #design #jmgansw #gallerybilk #bilkgallery #canberra #anu #metal #australiandesign #aluminium #bauhaus #bauhausdesign #johanneskuhnen #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #silversmith #goldsmith #jewelleryandobjects See more

19.01.2022 Showing now! @windowsmiths @marciaaswaby @fiona_meller_maker @ftannerbaker

18.01.2022 JMGA in conversation with Pierre Cavalan TONIGHT 6:30PM - 8:00PM This talk will be via ZOOM. Please check your email inbox for the zoom link. See you tonight!

18.01.2022 \\SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT// Marc Newson @marcnewsonofficial Hear him discuss his career, design practice and the themes that have informed his work with Sydney College of the Arts Director, Andrew Lavery in an online conversation. Tuesday July 28, 6pm. Register your interest @sca_sydney... After graduating from the University of Sydney in 1986, his first solo exhibition at the age of 23 featured his Lockheed Lounge a riveted aluminium chaise longue that has arguably become one of the most iconic contemporary design works. Newsons work is now held in the collections of major museums including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Smithsonian Design Museum (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Design Museum (London), V&A Museum (London), Muse National dArt Moderne, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), and the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne). He has recently been appointed Chair of the London Design Museums International Design Council. See more

18.01.2022 \\ SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT // @sondi2308 @sondisstudio If you don't know Sondi, then I hope you one day meet this prodigious jeweller and colossal human! I first met Sondi in 2000 when she taught me married metals at Enmore Design Centre. I remember the 2 of us butting heads. I recall her telling me what she thought on more than one occasion but I found her feminist perspectives awakening. I then went on to work as her production assistant where she taught me on the sly how to stick... solder and solder production earrings fast, fast, fast! I now think of her as a dear friend and a mama whom I adore. The conversations are never dull, especially when the ljivovic is flowing. Opinon/words by erin//keys 'My studio is adjacent to my home in an isolated bush setting in the blue mountains. I cannot dismiss the fact that such a peaceful and regenerative atmosphere influences my designs. My new work has become less graphic, more abstract in the surface of the bi-metal I create. The complicated hollow structures I have made are becoming more open also. Being a more mature practitioner has relaxed and freed me in many ways!' Sondi. Purchase and view more of Sondi's jewellery from her studio by appt [email protected] #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #sheridankennedy #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #whatsonsydney #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #australiandesigncentre #mountainsmetal #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #bluemountainsjewellery #object #sondi See more

17.01.2022 Our interstate jewellers have been inspired. Here is a post from Jane at Zu Design, Adelaide. Don't forget to tag us if you choose to share an image of your peg or workshop.

17.01.2022 Essay commissioned by the Australia Design Centre and written by Melinda Young for Made/Worn. https://australiandesigncentre.com//everything-and-nothi/

17.01.2022 #ANATsoapbox August 3-9 @catherinetruman artist takeover of @anat_australia Instagram stories #sharedreckoningsproject #thevisiblelightproject @artssouthaus

16.01.2022 Do you love jeweller's workshops as much as we do? The messier the better, right!? Hopefully you are able to find solace in your own unique work space during this strange time in life. If you feel like sharing your studio, please do and we will repost. Hope you're all taking very good care. Thanks to @real_studios_of_instaland for a couple of these images. ... #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #marianhosking #realstudios #nothedesignfiles #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #creomelbourne #littlesilverstar #sydneycontemporary #make #jessdare #thebenchsydney #squarepegstudios #jewellerystudio #jewelleryworkshop See more

16.01.2022 \\ SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT // Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers. Tell us in the comments if you were one of Helges students/colleagues or have a story to tell about this prolific couple. Its impossible on social media to adequately tell the story of the 6 decade partnership between Larsen and Lewers, or their family story so thank goodness for beautiful books and the internet. They are pioneers in the Australian contemporary jewellery scene. They were the first practicing jewellers ...I met and their studio was the first "real" jewellery workshop I visited, way back in 1999. They were generous with their advice, their encouragement to create and their kindness to me, a young, curious jeweller in the making. Art and making is in their genes and lives on in their childrens. They collaborate on work, whether intuitively knowing how or, seamlessly understanding the process because of working together for so long. [Thoughts|Comments by erin//keys] #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #lewersbequest #design #realstudios #nothedesignfiles #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #larsenandlewers #daranilewers #sydneycontemporary #make #helgelarsen #jewellerystudio #jewelleryworkshop #lewersgallery #penrithregionalgallery See more

15.01.2022 \\ SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT // MOTHER & MAKER We admire anyone who chooses a life in the arts, its not always easy. So today we raise our cuppas to all the mamas, mums, mothers and grandmothers still making and mothering! You are amazing! Here are 10 incredible mothers and makers. Although we can only show 10 images, we recognise all of you and think youre doing great. ... #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #australianjewellery #makers #mums #design #DontCancelCreativity #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #mothersday #make #exhibition #object #sianedwards #jessdare #melindayoung #katrinafreene #katrinatyler #lisafurno #kellymcdonald #nataliamiloszpiekarska #amyjenkin #reginamiddleton See more

15.01.2022 Don't miss your chance to have a say on the #heritage significance of the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo. Take our short survey https://bit.ly/2Wsce7N. Closes Friday 8 May, 5pm AET. #HeritageAtHome

14.01.2022 JMGA Member Profile @kirstenhaydon A century earlier, gold and silversmith Kirsten Haydon, born in New Zealand in 1973, might have been a scientific explorer or a lady bridge-builder. Instead, she fabricates thematic jewellery and small objects, specialising in enamelled silver. (Sydney Morning Herald, 2014). Since 2004, when she travelled to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow (NZ), Kirsten Haydon has explored the icy continent through jewellery and object making. ...Her practice has considered the structures and palette of Antarcticas forbidding terrain, its wildlife and the impact of human activity upon it. You can see more of Kirstens work at @galleryfunaki @fingersjewellery and online. #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #melbournejeweller #jamfactory #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #enamel #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #galleryfunaki #fingersgallery #melbournecontemporary #make #learn #exhibition #object #rmit #kirstenhaydon See more

14.01.2022 JMGA Member Profile @unnaturaljeweller Melinda Young is a contemporary craft artist whose work spans jewellery, textiles, installation and interactive public art projects. She has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, participating in over 200 group exhibitions since 1997, her work is held in public collections and included in numerous publications. Alongside her making practice, Melinda has spent the past 20 years working within the contemporary craft a...nd design field as an educator, curator and gallery manager. Melinda is currently an Associate Lecturer at UNSW Art & Design and undertaking a cross-disciplinary PhD at the Australian Centre for Culture Environment Society and Space, University of Wollongong. What appeals to me most about Mels work is the way she creates such simplicity and elegance in her pieces using materials and techniques that arent always conventional and most of the time, can be (partially) made while she is in transit. Mels work is layered with rich visual depth and an alluring tactility. She is capable of meandering within the realms of craft, academia, contemporary jewellery and production jewellery all whilst staying true to her original aesthetic. And, shes one of the most giving and nicest people Ive ever met. She shares her knowledge and experience and is a mentor for all. Opinion|blurb by April Insta takeover erin//keys. To follow Mel and her exquisite images @unnaturaljeweller More Mel @unnaturalnaturally with sidekick Simeoni. To purchase or view Melinda Youngs jewellery head to: @egetal @fingersjewellery @courtesyoftheartist @bridgetkennedy_projectspace @attagallerybkk @beavergalleries #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #attagallery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #beavergalleries #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #australiandesigncentre #egetal #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #exhibition #object #cota #melindayoung See more

13.01.2022 \\ h o n o u r i n g // DOROTHY DWYER Ellen Dorothy Bjorn was born in Melbourne in 1925 to Danish parents Otto Nielsen and Ebba Margrethe Bjorn. After returning to Denmark with her mother at age 4, she was raised by her Moster (Aunt) whilst her mother worked abroad. She returned to Australia at the age of 27 where she trained as a radiographer at Royal North Shore Hospital. In the 1960s she began attending East Sydney Technical College studying many disciplines before discov...ering Silversmithing towards the late 60s. She then trained with Walraven van Heeckeren, developing her technical skill and exploring her innate sense of pure form inherited from her Danish background. Throughout her career Dorothy participated in many exhibitions along with her peers at Quadrivium gallery, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, The Hunters hill art show, and The Worn issues exhibition. She was a long-time member of JMGA. Dorothy began teaching in the Harrington Street studios and worked weekends, demonstrating in the Argyle Arts Centre in the Rocks. She taught in the Summer Schools at Sturt College and Toowoomba and attended workshops by visiting Metal workers in order to perfect her techniques and become a master crafts woman. Over time Dorothy established an impressive workshop that became her sanctuary. She spent many hours happily banging away on hard and soft metals, performing alchemies with all manner of matter and enjoying the challenges of Holloware. Although suffering from arthritis in her later years, she would always find a way into her workshop and into that joy and pure focus of making, all the way till she died in 2010. DOROTHY DWYERS GIFT The Dorothy Dwyer Silversmiths studio has been created through a bequest from artists Stephanie and Mikala Dwyer to honour their mother, the acclaimed silversmith Dorothy Dwyer. The working tools from Dorothys Sydney studio were installed at Bundanon in 2017 to provide for artists in residence working with silver and gold. Bundanon Trust is grateful for the generosity of Mikala and Stephanie Dwyer and the professional advice of Valerie Odewahn. https://www.bundanon.com.au/residenci//silversmith-studio/

13.01.2022 ~ A jeweller unlike any other ~ @giovannicorvaja Not many can say they’ve mastered the art of turning gold into fibre, or that they have a Laboratory High vacuum Chamber in their studio which they built themselves. Not many, except for Giovanni Corvaja, devotee of innovation of metals. . Corvaja weaves gold and platinum into objects that have never before been imagined. Corvaja projects the traditional craft of goldsmithing into the 21st century, offering a vision of a fut...ure where air and gold are one. A master of contemporary craftsmanship, Corvaja is an intrepid explorer pushing the boundaries of his noble craft and he meticulously creates one piece at a time. . In Corvaja’s hand, gold becomes soft as fabric, 100th of the width of a human hair and as soft as fur. In his quest to take gold to places it has never before ventured, Corvaja is constantly evolving his techniques. . Everything started because of my passion and fascination about metals. Ever since I was a child I found metals to be very interesting: the way they feel to the touch, the way they reflect the light, the way they absorb so quickly the warmth of our hands, their malleability and ductility were like miracles for me. In the earth metals are very common, but, because at its origin the earth was hot and melted, most of it collapsed to the centre of it, forming the earth’s core: a giant ball of melted iron of thousand of kilometres in diameter. Most probably the heavier of those metals are in the inner coreI am convinced that the soul of the earth is a huge sphere of gold and platinum, or at least, that is how I like to imagine it. #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #gold #giovannicorvaja #wire #materialscience #physics #chemistry #goldsmith #metal #metalwork #platininum #artjewelry #umbria #design #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #make #goldenfleece #exhibition #object #adriansassoon #goldthread #vacuumchamber . Link: http://www.thejewel See more

13.01.2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering Supreme Court justice who became the second female on the nations highest court, the leader of its liberal wing and a pop culture icon known as Notorious R.B.G., died Friday night. She was 87. * Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Courts feminist icon, not only changed the law, she also transformed the roles of men and women in society. * Ruth Bader Ginsburg is widely admired as a judicial iconbut lets not downplay her sartorial ac...complishments, either. For as long as shes been on the Supreme Court, shes jazzed up her black robes with some truly dazzling neckwear. * What distinguishes Ginsburgs fashion sense, however, is how shes attached subtle meaning to her neckpieces. Justices dont typically express political opinions but wed like to think that the jurist is nonetheless communicating something with what she wears atop her robes. * Read more at Town and Country mag. See more

13.01.2022 JMGA NSW - Important News and Updates & Xmas Drinks. - https://mailchi.mp//jmga-nsw-important-news-and-updates-xm

11.01.2022 JMGA Profile Felix Gill is a contemporary jeweller whose practice explores ideas around travel and place. Having grown up in a household that was supportive and creative, Felix was encouraged to follow a career in the arts, completing studies in Jewellery and Object Design at the Design Centre Enmore and Sydney College of the Arts. ... In 2014 he completed an artist residency at the Sturt Centre for Australian Craft and Design, during which he explored the casting of found sticks and stones from the Southern Highlands south of Sydney, and combined them with the bold colours seen in the urban environment of Sydney city. @felixsees #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #australiandesign #resin #australianjewellery #sturtresidency #design #australiandesigncentre #art #felixgill #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #object

10.01.2022 \\SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT// [On a Monday] Frank Bauer Internationally recognised jeweller, industrial designer, light artist and kinetic sculptor Bauer works in a colourful world all of his own making. In a career spanning 35 years, Frank Bauer has designed and made jewellery, spectacles, a series of teapots, a range of lightweight furniture and prototypes for ingenious wind-driven sculptures. As for why Im doing what Im doing I have no answer because I think it is very puzzl...ing being a human being, full stop. Really, Im just part of a culture. My work is just a bunch of influences. Absolutely new ideas are very rare. Youre always absorbing information, stirring it up in your own pot. Hopefully something comes out which is beyond skill, beyond visual appearance, but that sparks somewhere between all of that [with] a true personality." Bauer is exceptional, not just for the quality of his workmanship, but also for the breadth of his skills as a maker. For me its not only sitting remote, drawing. Things happen much more once I get into the workshop and push myself. In the process of handling, touching and making I can experience things much better. If you touched it only once, and something sparked, then its worth you living your lifeso Im still chasing this spark #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #goldsmith #australiandesign #australianjewellery #lighting #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #adelaide #jmgaprofile #adelaidedesigner #make #learn #exhibition #object #bauhausdesign #bauhaus #frankbauer See more

10.01.2022 National Contemporary Jewellery Award is back! A perfect time to create, make and enter. https://forms.griffith.nsw.gov.au/Forms/ncja2020

10.01.2022 NEWS & EVENTS From JMGA Member Helen Wyatt Contemporary Jewellery from Queensland ... Dear Friends, I am so proud to be a participant in this show. If you have the time and the proximity, come and see the work of my Queensland friends as well as my own. USE is a new exhibition of contemporary jewellery and small objects, exploring the impact of tools in artisan practice developed by the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Queensland (JMGQ). Seventeen artists have created diverse wearable and small objects. Some have literally repurposed tools; others have creatively interpreted their utilitarian environments. This touring exhibition has been travelling to regional galleries around Queensland NSW since early 2019 and is currently on show at Hurstville Museum and Art Gallery until October 2020. 14 MacMahon Street Hurstville Tues-Fri 10.00am-4.00pm Sat 10.00am-2.00pm Sun 2.00pm-5.00pm Phone: (02) 93306444 Email: [email protected] www.georgesriver.nsw.gov.au/HMG Selected Artists: Helen Bird, Jac Dyson, Lois Hayes, Catherine Hunter, Alicia Lane, Catherine Large, Samuel Lintern, Andy Lowrie, Nellie Peoples, Clare Poppi, Kierra-Jay Power, Paola Raggo, Elizabeth Shaw, Katie Stormonth, Rebecca Ward, Helen Wyatt and Xiahui Yang. All the best, Helen Photo: Art Studio Waste: Reusing Broken Tools (sawblades) Brooch and Green Earrings. Paola Raggo 2017/28. Sterling silver, resin, broken saw blades 55x90x15mm and 75x38x11mm (left-right) Photo: Michelle Bowden Visual Photography USE has been mounted through the partnership between JMGA (Queensland Chapter) Inc., and Museums and Galleries Queensland, with the support of The Visions regional touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians, the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Liveworm Studio and the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

09.01.2022 All welcome, see you at the bench

07.01.2022 JMGA member @meganleeturton solo exhibition Paradise Lost at @gaffagallery September 3-14 Opening this Saturday September 5 http://www.gaffa.com.au/exhibition/paradise-lost . "When I started working on my exhibition, Paradise Lost the world was in a very different state. I began exploring my relationship with my Grandfather and hand making and, more broadly, our relationship with religion and mythology through reinterpreting the epic poem my grandfather used to read to me, ...Miltons "Paradise Lost". From the Cusco Cathedral in Peru where Incan symbolism was surreptitiously supplanted into the traditional ornamentation of a European church: art has been a means of maintaining cultural connections and contextualising the world around us. This parallel became ever more prevalent as the covid-19 lockdown set in. Our world is shifting and we have a way. The story of Paradise Lost follows Adam and Eves fall from grace. I had hoped to use my art through the retelling of this story to prescribe a better end than Adam and Eve. Now I realize, like they did in the final chapters of Paradise Lost, that good and bad cannot be separated so easily and the issue is never so black and white. The world is full of upheaval and is constantly changing and can seem uncomfortable and unresolved. In a way it is, but I have found inspiration in the idea that there is excitement and hope in this state of entropy." #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #steeljewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #steel #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #make #learn #exhibition #object See more

07.01.2022 JMGA MEMBER PROFILE @ok.h.a.l.i.e exhibited in the JMGA NSW Members Profile exhibition hosted at the @australiandesigncentre in 2019. This is where I first became enamoured with Halie Rubenis crafting of fragile materials, like shell, into everyday items such as bread clips. If you know me, or have been on the receiving end of my creeping, if I begin to obsess about your work, I track you down and make sure to keep you in my world. And so it was, when I first saw the aba...lone bread clip. I tracked down the artist and made sure to connect. During the exhibition, I spent a long time staring through the magnifying glass into the miniature world of these exquisitely, simplistic carvings. Walk by, and you may have missed them amidst the big bold contemporary work of others. But for me, they forced me to halt and drew me near. These precious carvings provide stillness and consideration. I think this artist is one of Australias best. Big bold not even slightly impartial opinions/thoughts by erin//keys. @ok.h.a.l.i.e Actual artist info: Halie Rubenis has studied art, design, object and jewellery at Melbourne Polytechnic, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Australian National University where she was awarded 1st Class Honours (2014). Aside from having projects featured in many curated national exhibitions, Halie has also worked across the commercial and non-profit art and design sectors in business, strategic management and creative direction. She is regularly commissioned by cultural organisations and is currently a creative mentor at Ernabella Arts in the APY Lands, South Australia. #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #northsydney #tasmaniacraft #australiandesign #tasmaniadesign #australianjewellery #carving #design #australiandesigncentre #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #profile #jmgaprofile #tasmaniacontemporary #make #learn #exhibition #object #halierubenis See more

07.01.2022 Do you love jewellers workshops as much as we do? The messier the better, right!? Hopefully you are able to find solace in your own unique work space during this strange time in life. If you feel like sharing your studio, please do and we will repost. Hope youre all taking very good care. Thanks to @real_studios_of_instaland for a couple of these images. ... #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #marianhosking #realstudios #nothedesignfiles #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #creomelbourne #littlesilverstar #sydneycontemporary #make #jessdare #thebenchsydney #squarepegstudios #jewellerystudio #jewelleryworkshop See more

06.01.2022 \\ SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT // @sondi2308 @sondisstudio If you dont know Sondi, then I hope you one day meet this prodigious jeweller and colossal human! I first met Sondi in 2000 when she taught me married metals at Enmore Design Centre. I remember the 2 of us butting heads. I recall her telling me what she thought on more than one occasion but I found her feminist perspectives awakening. I then went on to work as her production assistant where she taught me on the sly how to stick... solder and solder production earrings fast, fast, fast! I now think of her as a dear friend and a mama whom I adore. The conversations are never dull, especially when the ljivovic is flowing. Opinon/words by erin//keys My studio is adjacent to my home in an isolated bush setting in the blue mountains. I cannot dismiss the fact that such a peaceful and regenerative atmosphere influences my designs. My new work has become less graphic, more abstract in the surface of the bi-metal I create. The complicated hollow structures I have made are becoming more open also. Being a more mature practitioner has relaxed and freed me in many ways! Sondi. Purchase and view more of Sondis jewellery from her studio by appt [email protected] #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #sheridankennedy #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #whatsonsydney #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #australiandesigncentre #mountainsmetal #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #bluemountainsjewellery #object #sondi See more

06.01.2022 @zbrandbrand YOU ARE DOING IT AGAIN 2 July - 22 August 2020 @craft.act ... Floor talk 1-1:30pm Saturday July 18. Book online. YOU ARE DOING IT AGAIN by Zoe Brand is an exhibition where general musings about an unprecedented time are put front and centre, multiplied, divided, made colourful and offered anew. Part antidote, part lucky charm and part warning to those closest to us, Brand offers up a series of wearable works that straddle the line between the comic and the tragic." Zoe Brands work can be viewed on many levels. At first encounter the work might be read as a banal collection of words and phrases. However, the seemingly glib statements that populate Brands work are a larrikin faade. The work and words are carefully considered. Brand is a collector of words, statements and language. She is interested in how language works (in and) out of context. How a statement, a word taken out of its place of origin can be read in multiple ways. Brand invites you to look deeper into this work, to think beyond the first impression of the throwaway phrase. Collected here is a deeply moving and insightful mirror of personal and collective emotion. Behind these bright circles and squares with their pop sensibility there is deep thought and rumination. Brand meditates on these words. On their presentation, their placement, the shape, colour and scale of each work. In Brands hands even blankness is potent (and never actually mere absence); she draws attention with space, and with words worn to the unspeakable. Extract from essay wrriten by Melinda Young, June 2020. @unnaturaljeweller If you cant make it to Canberra, follow the link to experience the next best thing. https://craftact.org.au//current-ex/you-are-doing-it-again See more

05.01.2022 What do you call it!? A bench pin or a bench peg? A bench pin/peg is a notched piece of wood you attach to your work table to aid with sawing. Bench pins also help steady your hands and tools, so you can do intricate work in small spaces. For example, you can snuggly anchor numerous tools, such as ring clamps and pliers, into the bench pins notch. This will help you with filing and polishing metals as well as setting gemstones. The shape of the peg is formed over time wi...th filing, drilling and hand sawing and the way each jeweller uses their peg is unique. #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #sheridankennedy #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #whatsonsydney #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #australiandesigncentre #mountainsmetal #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #jewellerspeg #object #bnchpin #benchpeg See more

04.01.2022 JMGA MEMBER PROFILE @bridgetkennedy_projectspace @bkandco Bridget Kennedy believes in a truly connected sustainably creative community. As an Australian Contemporary Artist, her independent practice, advocacy work, exhibitions, support of other makers and community projects are unified by this vision. Im often rethinking how I do things. Everything Im redoing, remaking and recreating is supporting a world where I strive to reduce, reuse, repair, recreate, refurbish, rec...ycle. If not, Im keen to redesign it or remove it. All of the work I do, and want to do, moves toward a common goal and shared vision. The future world. A truly connected creative community. Bridget believes in the power of creativity and its potential to express ourselves, connect with each other, to question, challenge and find new answers. The result? An abundant place for our future generations. A world where we create less but reap more. A place where surplus is felt through connection not coveting and a time where life is explored using creativity and creative thinking. Bridgets professional practice is broad, encompassing jewellery design, installation and conceptual art. She is also the Director of The Project Space and you can often find her running community-based projects. Bridget is deeply passionate about permaculture and growing edible plants in the urban environment. Bridget is part of Made/Worn at the @australiandesigncentre. #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #northsydney #jamfactory #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #lanecove #australiandesigncentre #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #madeworn #bridgetkennedyprojectspace #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #exhibition #object #bridgetkennedy See more

04.01.2022 Have you ever walked down reservoir street and wondered what lay behind the walls of the strange yellow terrace emblazoned with a sign that said Lapidary House?... Well it houses the lapidary club of NSW and maintains stone cutting equipment for use by its club members. Every weekend it is a hive activity with members working on specimen stone, jewellery pieces or art exhibits. They provide a place to practice for all arts related to stone and an environment of exchange of skills and semi precious gems. The club has produced many talented stone craftsmen over the years and even had to hold an exhibition at the town hall to accommodates the crowds. The fashion for lapidary is not as great as it was in the past but new members are learning the craft and adapting it to new directions in art and design. Its great to find a place so close to home where you can learn so many artisanal skills. The club at 136 reservoir street Surry Hills has a small shop which sells jewellery and specimens and is open to the public from 10 am to 1pm every Saturday.

03.01.2022 What do you call it!? A 'bench pin' or a 'bench peg'? A bench pin/peg is a notched piece of wood you attach to your work table to aid with sawing. Bench pins also help steady your hands and tools, so you can do intricate work in small spaces. For example, you can snuggly anchor numerous tools, such as ring clamps and pliers, into the bench pins notch. This will help you with filing and polishing metals as well as setting gemstones. The shape of the peg is formed over time wi...th filing, drilling and hand sawing and the way each jeweller uses their peg is unique. #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #sheridankennedy #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #whatsonsydney #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #australiandesigncentre #mountainsmetal #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #jewellerspeg #object #bnchpin #benchpeg See more

03.01.2022 @melissacameronjeweller Melissa Cameron A/US 3 26/9/2020 Virtual Artist Talk 12noon Sat Sept 12th JOIN ZOOM CHAT @bridgetkennedy_projectspace... My migrant experience was moving from Australia to the USA, and back again. These are politically very different places but share a lot in that they are now colonized, white-dominated and majority English-speaking countries. And they have lots of scrap steel lying on their footpaths, roads and in open spaces. In walking and learning a town I find steel sticks out at me. Sometimes I collect it, documenting my finds as I go. Recently Ive taken to incorporating it in my work. In re-membering these objects I am making additional connections to the places I found them. Through changing the purpose and meaning of the finds I simultaneously alter and solidify my memories of those places. With this re-making my experience of place is continually being regenerated, and so continues to influence my present. Melissa Cameron, 2020 #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #steeljewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #steel #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #make #learn #exhibition #object #melissacameron #bridgetkennedy #artjewelry #wearableart #contemporaryjewellery

03.01.2022 JMGA Member Profile @daniellelo.jewellery Danielle Lo is an emerging contemporary jeweller from Sydney. Danielle has a small limited run collection stocked at various locations in Australia and are all made by hand. Her works are an intimate physical exploration of conceptual ideas, achieved through the use of shapes, form, line, colour and textural elements. Danielle predominately works in silver, gold and enamel - a glass powder that can be fused to metal surfaces, using... traditional silversmithing techniques. Danielle is a self taught enamellist who creates unique pieces adding delicate details and textures. Due to the application of enameling being unpredictable, each piece is inherently unique and individual. Upon finishing her Advance Diploma in Jewellery and Objects at Enmore Design Centre (2014), Danielle went on to complete a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Jewellery and Object at Sydney College of Arts (2016) and has finished the JamFactory Associate Training Program (2018) in the Metal and Jewellery Studio. Currently Danielle continues her practice taking on bespoke commissions in her private studio based in Sydney. To purchase and view Danielles jewellery please visit her website or: @kingallery @sarahrothe @courtesyoftheartist @jamfactorymetal @jamfactoryau #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #sydneyjeweller #jamfactory #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #enamel #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #australiandesigncentre #kingallery #sydneycontemporary #make #learn #exhibition #object #adelaide #daniellelo See more

02.01.2022 @catherinelarge_jeweller at @stanley_street_gallery Unintended Consequences 3 - 25 September 2020 ... #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #steeljewellery #australiandesign #australianjewellery #steel #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #make #learn #exhibition #object See more

02.01.2022 JMGA Member Profile @kirstenhaydon 'A century earlier, gold and silversmith Kirsten Haydon, born in New Zealand in 1973, might have been a scientific explorer or a lady bridge-builder. Instead, she fabricates thematic jewellery and small objects, specialising in enamelled silver.' (Sydney Morning Herald, 2014). Since 2004, when she travelled to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow (NZ), Kirsten Haydon has explored the icy continent through jewellery and object making. ...Her practice has considered the structures and palette of Antarcticas forbidding terrain, its wildlife and the impact of human activity upon it. You can see more of Kirsten's work at @galleryfunaki @fingersjewellery and online. #jmga #jmgansw #sydneyjewellery #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #melbournejeweller #jamfactory #australiandesign #australianjewellery #design #cityofsydney #enamel #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #galleryfunaki #fingersgallery #melbournecontemporary #make #learn #exhibition #object #rmit #kirstenhaydon See more

02.01.2022 \\ SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT // MOTHER & MAKER We admire anyone who chooses a life in the arts, it's not always easy. So today we raise our cuppas to all the mamas, mums, mothers and grandmother's still making and mothering! You are amazing! Here are 10 incredible mothers and makers. Although we can only show 10 images, we recognise all of you and think you're doing great. ... #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #australianjewellery #makers #mums #design #DontCancelCreativity #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #jmgaprofile #mothersday #make #exhibition #object #sianedwards #jessdare #melindayoung #katrinafreene #katrinatyler #lisafurno #kellymcdonald #nataliamiloszpiekarska #amyjenkin #reginamiddleton See more

02.01.2022 What will you be wearing tonight at the JMGA zoom bar? Registration for the meeting is required to receive the actual meeting URL. Please get in touch if you have not received the Url. The process is very simple and is as follows: 1. Open the link above... 2. Enter your name and email address in the required fields 3. Press Register 4. You will automatically be approved and the screen will give you a new link to join the meeting directly. 5. Dont worry, you can close this window, because the same details will be emailed to you via the email address you entered into the first page 6. At 6.30pm on Friday 17th April, open this email and follow the URL. It will take you directly to the meeting.

02.01.2022 Jewellery - Half a Century Romance by Giedymin Jablonski When/Zoom: Tuesday 14th July 6.30pm (Sydney time) Bic Tieu has organised a presentation through the help of Pierre Cavalan. Next Tuesday, through the platform of JMGA, Pierre will introduce his friend contemporary art jeweller Giedymin Jablonski from Poland to speak to the Jmga and jewellery community.... Please check your membership emails for ZOOM link. We hope you can make it.

02.01.2022 \\ SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT // Joost and Truus Daalder. To Have and to Hold: The Daalder Collection of Contemporary Jewellery. Once again, there is far too much to tell you about Joost and Truus Daalder. Therefore, I encourage you to seek them out when next in Adelaide, buy the catalogue from AGSA and purchase their other publications. Undeniably, worth it! We will also add further images of the collection to our Instagram story today. Truus (the Netherlands, 1939) & Joost Daalder (t...he Netherlands, 1939) are among other things, active collectors of work by contemporary jewellery designers. They live in Adelaide (Australia). In 2017, the Art Gallery received a generous donation of 161 outstanding examples of jewellery from private collectors, Truus and Joost Daalder. The collection traverses 100 years of art jewellery and includes work by art nouveau master Ren Lalique through to Vietnamese-German contemporary artist Sam Tho Duong. The Daalders gathered objects without a preconceived plan. When they saw something that appealed to them during one of their many journeys, it was purchased; they themselves call this "collecting without prejudice." Another aspect in their collection is the personal contact they often maintain with the jewellery designers. They correspond with many makers, inviting artists to view their collection up close. The couple always buy the jewellery together; though Truus always holds them. Grant Hancock Instagram, artists and online sources #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #spreadartnotviruses #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #collectors #australiandesign #australianjewellery #carving #design #australiandesigncentre #DontCancelCreativity #stayhome #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #profile #jmgaprofile #adelaide #make #learn #exhibition #object #daaldercollection #agsa #truusandjoostdaalder

01.01.2022 Please join us for our upcoming JMGA MEMBER Zoom talk with @pierre.cavalan Link in comments. Tuesday September 15, 6:30pm - 8:00pm . At these uncertain times it is more important than ever to keep our creative minds active and what is more inspiring and supportive than hearring the creative processes and thoughts of others. ... . The JMGA are looking for new artists to host talks and would love to have your input. Would you like to volunteer to talk, who would you like to hear talk about their work or perhaps a more technical discussion is of interest? We invite you to email us with your requests and suggestions. . We look forward to seeing you on the 15th . Zoom room will open 6:30pm and Pierres talk will commence 6:45pm. Q/A after talk. . Pierre Cavalan: With a diploma from Paris National Jewellery school , Pierre Cavalan arrived in Darwin, Australia, from an overland trip. After surviving cyclone Tracy, he worked for Sydney trade jeweller ( Russel Mc Colough ) for 10 years. During 1990, Pierre set up his own studio and started experimenting with various materials . He has had solo exhibitions in London, Tokyo, Seoul and Paris. . This talk will take you on a journey of discovery through contemporary jewellery at the junction of several disciplines. #jmga #jmgansw #jewellery #jewelry #craft #australiancraft #australiandesign #goldsmith #australiandesign #australianjewellery #lighting #design #australiandesigncentre #silversmith #art #contemporaryjewellery #contemporarycraft #adelaide #jmgaprofile #make #learn #exhibition #object #pierrecavalan #artjewelry #wearableart #frenchjewelry #sculpture #recycledjewelry See more

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01.01.2022 Our interstate jewellers have been inspired. Here is a post from Jane at Zu Design, Adelaide. Dont forget to tag us if you choose to share an image of your peg or workshop.

01.01.2022 OPEN CALL until April 30th @joyabarcelona #artjewellery #objects #fair @dovilejewellery @zihanyang.jewelry @simonefrabboni #brooches #necklaces #earrings #black #contemporaryjewellery @dissenyhub #credits @celiasuarez @ JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects