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25.01.2022 \\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. Newson’s 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), Musée National d’Art 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 Museum’s International Design Council. See more

24.01.2022 \\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

23.01.2022 @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 Brand’s 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 Brand’s work are a larrikin façade. 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 Brand’s 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 can't 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

23.01.2022 Zoom Talk 6 Oct 6.30pm & Exhibition News - https://mailchi.mp/fc/zoom-talk-6-oct-630pm-exhibition-news

23.01.2022 So excited for @sydneycraftweek So many fantastic events on and so many fantastic jewellery focused events! See you there! Don't forget our SCW /JMGA talk tomorrow evening at 6:30pm. Zoom link in bio. . .... . #sydneycraftweek #sydneycreatives #sydney #whatsonsydney #sydneycraftweek2020 #jmgansw See more

20.01.2022 My Kitchen Jewels - Creative Workshop with Pennie Jagiello Saturday October 10, 11am - 2pm $180 Sunday October 11, 11am - 2pm $180 Experience our joy packed craft extravaganza from your home or at The Bench! Keeping in line with Covid protocols & safety, My Kitchen Jewels will now be offered via Zoom online. As much as we wanted Pennie here in person, sadly we couldn’t smuggle her across the border!... Both sessions are LIVE (not pre recorded) & can be attended from your home using a ZOOM account. However, if you wish to create together and in a workshop atmosphere, The Bench will be projecting My Kitchen Jewels live on Sunday October 11. A kitchen load of recycled materials are all the ingredients you will need. Discover how to utilise everyday materials with a focus on plastics that surround us, while employing a variety of creative multidisciplinary techniques to create a unique and wearable piece of art. Get ready to cut, carve and create from your very own home Follow the link in the comments below for more information. See more

20.01.2022 Bridget Kennedy Guess what’s in the window 1 July 7 August 2020 24/7 Is it Art, is it entertainment, is it a fundraiser? Either way, you’re 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. I‘d just started researching another large installation in the ‘Just Help yourself why don’tcha’ 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 wasn’t 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 there’s only so much I can do on my own. So in a bid to be proactive, I’ve reworked ‘Just Help yourself Why Don’tcha’, 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, it’s been transformed into a guessing competition: How many rings are in the window? For only $5, you’ll 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 can’t 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, you’ll 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.

20.01.2022 Thanks Helen. Let us know what you have have been seeing Tag us in Jmga-Nsw or #jmgansw

20.01.2022 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.

19.01.2022 1.The crossed keys symbolize the keys of Saint Peter, keeper of the gates of heaven. Francisco Marzo, Clasp of Leo XIII, 1887, gold, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds. . 2.Created in the 12th century in Limoges, France, this cross contains reliquary fragments found at sacred sites throughout the Holy Land. Abbey of Grandmont, Reliquary Cross, ca. 1180, rock crystal, and glass cabochons, wood core.... . 3.Created by the goldsmith Agostino Bori, the 19th century cross was later gifted to the bishop of Mantua, Monsignor Giuseppe Sarto. Being the son of a village postman, the bishop’s childhood was marked by poverty. The gesture seemed to be prophetic, as Bishop Sarto was subsequently elected as pope in 1903, inaugurated with the name Pius X. Agostino Bori, Pectoral Cross of Leo XIII, late 19th century, gold and aquamarine glass paste. . 4.Two Byzantine ivory carvings are used as focal points of these gilded book covers, created in northern Spain at the end of the 11th century. Convent of Santa Cruz de la Serós, Book Covers with Ivory Plaque and Figures, ca. 1085, gilded silver on wood backing, inset with sapphire, glass, and crystal. . 5.Clasp of Pius IX, 1871, gilt silver, turquoise enamel, diamonds, emeralds, and semiprecious stones. . 6.The carving is an example of a memento mori, or reminder of death in Latin, as the terminal bead was used as a prayer guide to reflect on the ephemeral quality of life. At Left: Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death’s Head, ca. 1500-1525, ivory with emerald pendant, gilded metal mount. . 7.Commissioned by the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine, a Catholic mendicant religious order that follows the Rule of St. Augustine of Hippo, the intricate work features an ornate, gold body and three pine cone motifs which form a trilogy signifying the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Clasp of Leo XIII, 1888, gilt silver, gold, pearls, and diamonds. . 8.Clasp of Benedict XIII, 1729, gold, gilt silver, blue enamel, emeralds, r See more

19.01.2022 ~ 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

18.01.2022 Special Offer BUNDANON residence ends 30 April - https://mailchi.mp//special-offer-bundanon-residence-ends-

18.01.2022 One Off Opportunity for JMGA NSW Members - https://mailchi.mp//one-off-opportunity-for-jmga-nsw-membe 28th May - 2 June one week residency at Bundanon. Applications close 20 April.

18.01.2022 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 it’s 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. It’s 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.

17.01.2022 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

15.01.2022 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.

14.01.2022 Elsa Peretti, the Italian-born jewelry designer who revolutionized the industry with her biomorphic designs inspired by bone fragments and pebbles, has died, age 80. . Peretti is arguably the most successful female ever to work in the jewelry field. Vogue described her work as carved, pureirresistibly touchableit has been called jewelry as sculpture, sculpture as jewelry, and the most sensuous jewelry in the world. . The designer began working with Tiffany & Co. in 1974 a...nd over time her pieces came to account for about 10% of the company’s sales. In 2012, Tiffany paid the designer a one-time fee of more than $47 million dollars. A successful business woman, Peretti was also an exemplar of the stylish, liberated professional woman of the 1970s. . When her first collection for Tiffany was released in 1974 Vogue wrote that right then, what had been a cult-size ardor exploded into a national passionsuddenly everybody is collecting Peretti. From New York to California, wherever there’s a Tiffany’s, there are linesand they’re not just-looking-thank-you. . Those customers were snapping up Peretti’s curvilinear pieces in sterling silvernot gold. This, the magazine would later note, turned the idea of what constituted fine jewelry on its head, and also affected who was buying it. In a break from tradition, women were shopping for themselves rather than being gifted jewelry by men. . https://www-vogue-com.cdn.ampproject.org//elsa-perett/amp . #elsaperetti See more

14.01.2022 JMGA NSW - Important News and Updates & Xmas Drinks. - https://mailchi.mp//jmga-nsw-important-news-and-updates-xm

13.01.2022 #ANATsoapbox August 3-9 @catherinetruman artist takeover of @anat_australia Instagram stories #sharedreckoningsproject #thevisiblelightproject @artssouthaus

11.01.2022 @australiandesigncentre in partnership with JMGA-NSW are calling for entries to Profile 2021, the 7th JMGA-NSW biennial curated award exhibition. . Profile is a significant curated award exhibition of contemporary jewellery, objects and metalwork by members of Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia NSW (JMGA-NSW). Awards are on offer for both early career and established artists and we are seeking a diverse cross-section of work from national and international contempo...rary makers. . All participants must be current members of JMGA-NSW. Visit JMGA-NSW to join. . KEY DATES Submissions Open 1 April 2021 Submissions Close 1 August 2021 Notification of Shortlisted Artists 16 August 2021 Delivery of Works By 1 October 2021 Install 5-7 October 2021 Exhibition 8 October 17 November 2021 See more

10.01.2022 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 Pierre's 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

08.01.2022 \\SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT// Pierre Cavalan Like a double agent performing a discrete act of espionage or trompe-l’oeil, 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 1970’s 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. Cavalan’s 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 jeweller’s 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

08.01.2022 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!

07.01.2022 @sydneycraftweek talks and discussions @thebenchsydney Hosted by @erinkeysjeweller & @jmga_nsw Meeting I.D in bio. .... You are invited to join us for the third JMGA Zoom gathering. A conversation with four vibrant makers @penniejagiello @smallbone_jewellery @laurensimeoni @unnaturaljeweller . Tuesday 6 October @ 6.30pm - 8:00pm . Pennie Jagiello, Kirsten Junor, Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young are our guest presenters in conversation with Erin Keys, focusing on themes making for change and toward a more sustainable future. . In the lead up to Discarded Delights, Urban Talismans at The Bench Jewellery School Workshop during Sydney Craft Week, the discussion will focus on contemporary craft in a shifting cultural climate, the value of ideas and how each artist uses materials to communicate. . Meeting ID: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8711541593 . Sign up to The Bench mailing list or dm The Bench for hyperlink. . . . #thebenchsydney #sydneycraftweek #sydneycraftweek2020 #jewelleryschool #jewelleryworkshop #jewelry #sydneyjeweller #sydneyjewellery #sydney #design #melindayoung #makejewellery #107projects #learn #design #sydneycreatives #creativesydney #unnaturallynatural #makeyourway #cityofsydney #create #penniejagiello #greensquare #joyntonavenuecreativecentre #whatsonsydney #jewelleryclasses #jewelleryclass #atthebench #jewellery #contemporaryjewellery #australiandesigncentre See more

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02.01.2022 @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 I’ve 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

01.01.2022 @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

01.01.2022 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, ...Milton’s "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 Eve’s 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

01.01.2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering Supreme Court justice who became the second female on the nation's 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 Court’s 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 let's not downplay her sartorial ac...complishments, either. For as long as she's been on the Supreme Court, she's jazzed up her black robes with some truly dazzling neckwear. * What distinguishes Ginsburg's fashion sense, however, is how she's attached subtle meaning to her neckpieces. Justices don't typically express political opinions but we'd 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

01.01.2022 The pieces that have become jewels - ornaments, medals, crosses, works of art were created to rejoice the sight, uplift the spirit, awaken the imagination and express beliefs. Without an audience, without the presence of spectators, these jewels would not fulfill the function for which they were created. The viewer therefore becomes the final artist. His sight, his heart, his mind - which merge and capture with more or less acuteness the intention of the creator - give them ...life." Salvador Dalí’ . The history of these jewels begins in 1941. The first twenty-two were acquired by the American millionaire Cummins Catherwood. Salvador Dalí drew the pieces on paper, with great detail and great precision of shapes, materials and colors, after which the fabrication took place in New York, under the careful supervision of the artist, in the workshops of the goldsmith of Argentinian origin Carlos Alemany. . The collection of Salvador Dali jewelry is a unique combination of themes, materials, sizes and shapes a recognizable and unmistakable handwriting of the maestro. Gold, platinum, precious stones, pearls and corals are no longer just expensive materials. They did not even become earrings, brooches or necklaces, but turned into the heart, lips, eyes, flowers, animals and anthropomorphic forms, religious and mythological symbols. . In 1948 Dali had returned to Spain after the war, he had rediscovered his Catholic Faith and visited Pope Pius XII in Rome where he sought and was given approval for his new religious themes. He had studied Nuclear Physics and felt that the discovery of the atomic nature of the universe was proof of the existence of God. According to Dali, this mix of science and religion would lead to a new Nuclear Mysticism. . Dali associated the nucleus of the atom with Christ and was influenced by the ideas of the mathematician Luca Pacioli paying attention to the triangle formed by Christs arms and the cross. See more

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