EXPO ‘Not Too Precious’ – National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny (Ireland) – 22 Janv.–30 Mars 2016

Not Too Precious : Exhibition Talk & Launch

Organisé par National Craft Gallery, Ireland

(Attai Chen on left – Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary on right)

Not Too Precious explores inspirational work by 25 international jewellers using materials for their expressive potential rather than for their intrinsic value. Radical artist jewellers of the late 1960s and 70s vigorously rejected the idea that jewellery should be considered ‘precious’ simply because of the materials of which it was made. Today, the use of a huge variety of materials in jewellery is far more accepted, but economic pressures are putting that freedom of artistic expression at potential risk as people revert to traditionally ‘valuable’ materials for ‘safety’. Not Too Precious challenges preconceptions about ‘non-precious’ materials by encouraging us to consider ‘accrued value’: what talented makers bring to their work through their ideas and skill.
The selected artists, who currently work in the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, create innovative, skilfully-made jewellery that is insightful and culturally resonant. Sometimes poignant, sometimes witty, their work communicates at many levels. It is above all honest and – for want of a better term – not too precious.

Jewellery by 25 international makers :  Attai Chen — Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary – Eunmi Chun — Warwick Freeman — Emmeline Hastings — Christel van der Laan — Felieke van der Leest – Sari Liimatta — Märta Mattsson — Jasmin Matzakow — Kazumi Nagano — Shinji Nakaba — Lina Peterson — Zoe Robertson — Michihiro Sato — Mariko Sumioka — Emiko Suo — Tore Svensson — Janna Syvänoja — Mirei Takeuchi — Timothy Information Limited — Terhi Tolvanen — Catherine Truman — Flóra Vági — Heather Woof.

Kazumi Nagano

Marta Mattson

Shinji Nakaba

Catherine Truman

 Warwick Freeman

Sari Liimatta

Michihiro Sato

Heather Woof

Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary

Eun Mi Chun

 

 

National Craft Gallery, Ireland

 Castle Yard, Kilkenny, Ireland

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EXPO ‘ LOVE IS ____’ – PIN sstudio, Kaohsiung City (Taiwan) – 28 Nov.2015-3 janv.2016

28 novembre2015 – 3 janvier 2016 at PIN sstudio  :

LOVE IS ____

with :  Bettina Speckner — Felieke van der Leest — Janny Huang Yokota — Jiye Yun — Katja Prins — Mari Ishikawa — Mia Kwon — Panjapol Kulpapangkorn –  Peter Hoogeboom — Tanel Veenre

 

 

PIN sstudio 

C8-6, Kaohsiung

No.2-2, Dayi St., Yancheng Dist., Kaohsiung City 803, Taiwan

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EXPO ‘HAUTE COUTURE’ – Caroline Van Hoek Gallery, Bruxelles (BE) – 29 Janv.-28 Mars 2015

Caroline Van Hoek Gallery. 

UPCOMING SHOW ‘HAUTE COUTURE’
Opening 29/01  6-9pm

Works by : Hermien Cassiers — Florie Dupont — Sam Tho Duong — Daniel Kruger – Felieke van der Leest — Francesco Pavan — Cornelia Roethel — Lisa Walker

DANIEL KRUGER - 1951 brooch, 2003 seadpearls, gold, thread 4,5×6,5cm

FLORIE DUPONT – 1984 prototype pendant,brooch or ring 2011 bronze, crystal, pearl 4×2,5x2cm

SAM THO DUONG – 1969 Frozen, necklace silver, pearls, wire FRANCESCO PAVAN – 1937` brooch gold, silver, alpaca

HERMIEN CASSIERS – 1991 bracelet, 2014 gold 38,10gr – 11,5×11,5x4cm

 FELIEKE VAN DER LEEST – 1968 Prof. Dr. Kong, brooch, 2007 textile, plastic, silver, cubic zirconia 19×8,5×3,5cm

 
Caroline Van Hoek Gallery
Rue Van Eyck 57
1050 Bruxelles
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Take a HORSE, get a conversation piece …….

Take a HORSE, carefully cut it in pieces, and you get a neck-piece ….. no, a conversation-piece …..

for my part, I was fan of  THIS « Horses » ! :

Izabella Petrut -  « Blood on the ground » necklace – Innocent project – plastic toy, acrylic paint, copper, silk thread, varnish, 2013

The “Innocent” project gives me the chance to express an issue I am very much concerned with: the abuse against animals. The plastic toys are a way of representing an innocence that can only imply the horrible things that could / might have happened. I cut the animal toys the way butchers do, whilst others I use in twisted positions. After that I melt them, creating situations that I imagine they end up in. I paint them in lively colors that are not specific to those animals and this way the first impression of the audience is of a happy piece of jewelry and only then, after a closer examination, they truly see the animal and its suffering. Most of them are hand painted so that every brush stroke I make allows me to connect with that animal and feel it’s pain. The electroformed pieces represent the animals that live in cold metal cages, while the silk represents a natural material that stands for blood (red silk) and the darkness of the night (black silk). By creating more feminine pieces of jewelry I am trying to nurture those animals’ suffering.
1% of all money made from selling these pieces of jewelry will be donated to an animal shelter.
Materials: plastic toys, electroformed, alpaca, silver, paint, varnish, onyx, silk, pigments, copper, gold leaf. Izabella Petrut

Izabella Petrut -  Innocent project   – « Horse doing 9 to 5″   necklace – plastic toy, copper, pigment, silk thread, 2013

Izabella Petrut, The Circus, necklace

by Rebecca Hinwood (ACTivate: Un-Earthing Jewellery workshop, Australian National University, School of Art Gold and Silversmithing, Canberra, AU)

Roxana Davidescu ‘con el pensamiento de ella…’ Horse necklace – JOYA Barcelona 2014

Anat Golan – White Steed 1 -

Anat Golan brooch/medallion 2014

Tabea Reulecke – Idar Oberstein – 2004

Levan Jishkariani – Fachhochschule Trier, Idar-Oberstein, Germany – necklace, n.t., 2013, wood, perspex, paper, leather, polymer clay- winne… (Marzee graduate show 2013)

Réka Lörincz  Necklace: The Good the Bad and the Flawless 2011  Plastic, gold, pearl, textile

Anna Davern Brooch: Hunter and Hound, 2006 Copper, found biscuit tin. 8,5 x 3,5 x 0,5 cm Photo: Terence Bogue

Tanel Veenre

Sari Liimatta Object: Expectations, 2006
Glass beads, metal pins, paper price labels with threads, piece of a jewellery, plastic toy
Jewellery sculpture

Felieke van Der Leest  Crazy Horse  Brooch – textile, silver, gold, plastic -   Charon Kransen Arts (SOFA NY 2012)

2014 Shanghai Design Week – EXPO ‘Shanghai Jewelry Art Exhibition’ – Shanghai Exhibition Center (CN) – 9-12 Oct. 2014

2014 Shanghai Jewelry Art Exhibition, October 9-12, 2014

Shanghai Design Week

 

We are very pleased to present the complete list of participating artists in the 2014 Shanghai Jewelry Art Exhibition, October 9-12 2014 :

Ezra Satok-Wolman – Jie Sun — Serena Holm — Inbar Shahak — Ria Lins — Karen Vanmol –  Marina Sheetikoff — Sina Emrich — Anne Luz Castellanos — Lital Mendel — Stephen Bottomley — Mette Saabye — Anna Fornari — Rebecca Rose (US) — Bethamy Linton — Siegfried De Buck — Dana Bloom — Peter Hoogeboom — Felieke Van der Leest – Evan Larson-Voltz — Anne Mondro — Thomas Madden — Susan Holt — Tanel Veenre – Melissa Cameron — Holland Houdek — Margherita Marchioni — Annette Dam — Karin Roy Anderson — Reka Lorincz — Nicole Taubinger — Jen Townsend — Bas Bouman — Linda Ezerman — Isabella Liu — Joanne Garner — Anshu Hu — Yu Hiraishi – Wendy McAllister – Terhi Tolvanen — Charlotte Gorse (UK) — Juliette Bigley — Mara Irsara (IT) — Ellie Corp — Steven Follen — Ayano Nakajima (JP) — Haruko Sugawara — Nagai Junko — Michie Kitada — Mami Katsuki — Ingjerd Hanevold

In addition to the exhibition, a lecture series will be presented featuring presentations by Machtelt Shelling (Ubi Gallery), Evan Larson-Voltz (Wayne State University), and Ezra Satok-Wolman (Atelier Hg). To register for the lectures or find more information about the scheduled events, please use the following links

Jichang Chai, « Welcome on Board » brooch, 2014 - Aluminum, copper, nature screens

Shao Hong En, Brooch, 2014 -Silver, gem

Li Sang, Necklace, 2014 – Silver

Ezra Satok-Wolman, The Golden Ratio, medallion, 2014 – 791 (19k) yellow gold, 750 (18k) white gold, synthetic ruby spheres, silk
6.1 x 6.1 x 0.85 cm – Fabricated, Kumihimo braid – Back view

Isabella Liu, Pieces, 2014 - Mending- One Brooch in a Midi Ceramic Pottery, 2014 – Ceramic, gold plated metal – 13 x 10.4 x 3.9 cm -  Object and jewellery

Felieke van der Leest, Brooch, Jumbo Star Brother, 2007 – Plastic animal, textile, silver, cubic zirconium – 12 x 17 x 7 cm

Inbar Shahak, - Woodland patina necklace, 2014 – Etched brass leaves, mix green patina with oxidize silver plating

Annette Dam Brooch: Finding a safe way down, 2012 Silver, brass, wood, epoxy, fringes, elastic band, clips

Anne Luz Castellanos – Anillos Ramas

 

 

Shanghai Exhibition Center, West Hall

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http://www.creativecity.sh.cn/2014/news2.aspx

http://www.fashionshanghai.com.cn/Article/ArticleDetail.aspx?ID=8834

 

 

EXPO ‘Body Jewels’ – TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL) – 29 Mars 2014-15 mars 2015

Body Jewels - textielmuseum

29 March 2014 till 15 March 2015

 

In Body Jewels, the TextielMuseum presents a large selection of Dutch jewellery from its own collection, alongside a number of high-profile commissions produced in the TextielLab. Jewellery no longer serves only as an expensive status symbol, but has evolved in recent decades into art, fashion and sometimes almost unwearable objects. Body Jewels traces a number of these developments.

In the mid-1960s, a young generation of jewellers turned away from traditional jewellery practices. They set out to design jewellery that was accessible to all, experimenting with everyday, ‘base’ materials such as textiles, plastic and rubber. The use of textiles in jewellery culminated in the 1980s. Several artists with a textile background – such as Mecky van den Brink, LAM de Wolf and Beppe Kessler – gained recognition in the jewellery world and beyond, prompting the TextielMuseum to begin its own jewellery collection.

Both jewellery design and textiles have traditionally been associated with ‘women’s work’ and ‘the feminine’. Consequently, expressions are often dismissed as applied rather than fine art, as the makers would like. The older generation of innovators paved the way for jewellery ‘s recognition as a serious mode of self-expression. Today, those prejudices and value judgements carry far less weight.

The exhibition includes works by Maria Blaisse, Ela Bauer, Ellis Belier, Joke Brakman and Claudy Berbéé, Mecky van den Brink, Brigit Daamen, Iris Eichenberg, Studio Formafantasma, Willemijn de Greef, Maria Hees, Marion Herbst, Bart Hess, Lolkje op de Hoek, Beppe Kessler, Digna Kosse, Sonja Landweer, Marijke de Ley, Felieke van der Leest, Lous Martin, Hill Metselaar, Regula Maria Müller, Chequita Nahar, Evert Nijland, Emilie Pallard and Niels Heymans, Alet Pilon, Winde Rienstra, Margot Rolf, Lia de Sain, Jenna Tas, Annemarie Timmer, Thea Tolsma, Miriam Verbeek, Lie van der Werff and LAM de Wolf.

Body jewels – TextielMuseum

Willemijn de Greef - RED – 2006 – from the Weavings series

Beppe Kessler - spinnaker cloth – 1985 – necklace & bracelet

Willemijn de Greef Halssieraad ‘Leguaan’ uit serie: Zuiderzeewerken II,  2009, Collectie Textielmuseum

 Willemijn de Greef -  « green » 2010

Maria Hees – Kubus – (photos Astrid Berens)

 

 

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EXPO ‘Difference & Repetition’ – NextLevel Gallerie, Paris (FR) – 18 Juin-19 Juill. 2014

NextLevel Gallery is delighted to present Difference & Repetition, a carte blanche exhibition giving to Benjamin Lignel, Frédéric F. Martin and Jorunn Veiteberg.
Displayed in 3 chapters Difference & repetition take place in the field of contemporary and conceptual jewelry with more than forty pieces from internationals and nationals artists.

Chapitre I: 18 – 21 juin
Chapitre II: 5 – 11 juillet
Chapitre III: 12 – 19 juillet

chap. 1

Chap.2

chap. 3

NextLevel Galerie est heureuse de présenter Difference & repetition, une exposition carte blanche donnée à Benjamin Lignel, Frédéric F. Martin et Jorunn Veiteberg. Présentée en 3 chapitres Difference & repetition s’inscrit dans le champ conceptuel du bijou contemporain réunissant plus d’une quarantaine de pièces d’artistes internationaux.

NextLevel Gallery is delighted to present Difference & repetition, a carte blanche exhibition giving to Benjamin Lignel, Frédéric F. Martin and Jorunn Veiteberg. Displayed in 3 chapters Difference & repetition takes place in the field of contemporary and conceptual jewelry with more than forty pieces from internationals artists.L’exposition est accompagnée de la publication d’un catalogue qui a reçu le soutien de l’Association Norvégienne pour les Arts et l’Artisanat et du ministère des Affaires étrangères norvégien.
This exhibition’s catalogue has received support from the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts as well as the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1. Each of the three curators has put together a selection of works illustrating their specific take on

difference and repetition.

2. Rather than display at once their three selections, we preferred re-assembling them into three

conversations around the subject.

2. Each conversation focuses on a different aspect of the subject.

3. The conversations will follow one another (some of the pieces will be present in all three sessions)

4. This method will hopefully encourage visitors to spend more time with less work, and enjoy the

complex things they suggest, or the silence they create around them

Artistes invités / Guest artists:
Anonyme — Volker Atrops — David Bielander — Alexander Blank – Louise Bourgeois – Monika Brugger – Kim Buck – Sungho Cho – Carole Deltenre – Richard Elenbaas – Benedikt  Fischer – Warwick Freeman – Gésine Hackenberg – Peter Hoogeboom – Alexandra Hopp – Lauren Kalman – Auli Laitinen – Joe Lee – Benjamin Lignel (représenté par la galerie) – Felix Lindner – Kerianne Quick – Yoko Ono – Gisbert Stach – Felieke van der Leest – Manon van Kouswijk – Sofie Boons – Suska Mackert – Barbara Schrobenhauser – Hans Stofer – Dan Volgers – Lisa Walker – Andy Warhol

Monika Brugger, Le(s) Petit(s) Robert(s)  – détail - Photo : Corinne Janier

Gésine Hackenberg – Kitchen glass, 2010-2012 BroochesGlass, ruthenium, nickel-plated silver

Manon van Kouswijk, Bisou (brooche), 2011

 

 

NextLevel Galerie

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EXPO ‘ZOO is life’ – Art Gallery Putti – 28 Mars- 19 Avril 2014

« ZOO is life » by Felieke van der Leest

From March 28 until April 19, 2014 Art Gallery PUTTI will host solo exhibition of Norvegian contemporary jewellery artist Felieke van der Leest – „ZOO is life”.

(2009 « Billy Bang » brooch)

Contemporary jewelry artist Felieke van der Leest in her artworks uses such techniques as knitting, crocheting, and beading – using special, extremely fine yarns and tailor-made needles and hooks. Connecting the precious metals with textiles and toy animals, the artist creates a witty, attractive and colorful jewelry that brings out a smile and leaves no spectator indifferent.
“When I work with colors, I feel like an artist when I am working with metal, I feel like a constructor , and when I am working with toys , I feel like a child, ” the artist comments on her creative process.
Plastic fish, seals, bears, giraffes, elephants, gorillas, dogs, birds and other animals live in the author’s works of art. Toys are dressed up, cut and assembled, decorated and adorned. Transforming then both visually and conceptually, the artist manages to get them incorporate in her surreal world, discovering a new life for them.

 

Felieke van der Leest   « crazy Horse » 2010

“I think my work rather be called wearable sculptures rather than jewelry, ” the artist explains.
Despite the witty approach to the jewelry making, Felieke, with her work also touches upon such social and serious issues as animal rights and environmental protection.
“Often the carriers of my jewelry tell me stories about my artwork that I would not have been able to see in my jewelry, “explains Felieke.
Felieke van der Leest was born and raised in the Netherlands, but since 2008 lives in West Norway. She got her jewerer diploma in 1996 when she graduated from the Jewelry Department at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. For several years, the international and conceptual professional contemporary jewelry artists’ society the work of Felieke van der Leest is very highly valued and appreciated; it can be found in museums and private collections around the world.

Felieke van der Leest – 2005 Black Crow with the Golden Feathers

Felieke van der Leest – Ring: Skunky Skunk, 2012 - oxidized silver, textile (viscose), plastic animal, synth. Ruby, marcasite - - 7 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm - Technique: crochet work, metalwork | Edition: 6 | Signed: F and L engraved on backside of tail

Felieke van der Leest - Brooch: The End 3, 2012 – Glass beads, plastic animal, silver, leather
12 x 11 x 4 cm

 

Putti Art Gallery
16 Mārstaļu iela
1050 – Rīga
Latvia
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EXPO ‘FELIEKE van der LEEST – Once upon a time in My West’ – Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam (NL) – 3 Nov.-22 Dec. 2012

FELIEKE van der LEEST  Once upon a time in My West (part 2)

(brooch/pendant ‘the End’ – silver, glass, plastic, textile – 2012)

Galerie Rob Koudijs
Elandsgracht 12
1016 TV – Amsterdam
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Prix Européen des Arts Appliqués – WCC-BF, Mons (Belgium) – 14 Juill.-9 Sept. 2012

European Prize for Applied Arts – WCC-BF

L’Art appliqué ? Qu’est-ce que c’est ?

Quand la création fait irruption dans le quotidien, quand le bijou se fait manifeste, quand la céramique se fait poème, quand le design change la vie, quand les artistes posent un regard neuf sur tout ce qui fait l’ordinaire de chacun et par l’ « intelligence de la main » créent des pièces uniques, c’est là que sont les Arts appliqués.
Design d’objets et de mobilier, création textile, céramique contemporaine, bijou et orfèvrerie, verre, travail du métal,…  Venez découvrir le meilleur des Arts appliqués européens cet été aux Anciens Abattoirs de Mons.
Créateurs confirmés et jeunes talents, dont les créations seront présentées dans le superbe cadre de la Grande Halle, dialogueront dans une scénographie confiée à Evelyne Gilmont, designer bruxelloise qui enseigne à l’Ecole supérieure des Arts plastiques et visuels de Mons.
Un jury international d’experts décernera le Prix européen des Arts appliqués, ce dernier comptant deux catégories :
le Prix des Maîtres d’Art, doté de 3.500 €, décerné à un créateur  âgé de plus de 35 ans, auteur d’une pièce maîtresse.
le Prix Jeune Talent de 3.000 euros, décerné à un jeune créateur âgé d’au maximum 35 ans.

Les Artistes (je ne reprends que les noms du bijou …)

Master :

Nevin ARIG (BE) — Alexander BLANK (DE) — Frédéric BRAHAM (FR) — Gemma DRAPER (ES) — Sam Tho DUONG  (DE) — Beate EISMANN (DE) — Hilde FOKS (NL) — Christine GRAF (DE) — Susi HINES (UK) — Peter HOOGEBOOM (NL) — Christiana JOECKEL (DE) — Christer JONSSON (SE) — Claire LAVENDHOMME (BE) — Kadri MÄLK (EE) — Ramon PUIG CUYÀS (ES) — Zoe ROBERTSON (UK) — Isabell SCHAUPP (DE) — Bettina SPECKNER (DE) – Terhi TOLVANEN  (NL) — Barbara UDERZO (IT) — Felieke VAN DER LEEST (NO) — Tanel VEENRE (EE) — Annamaria ZANELLA  (IT)

Claire LAVENDHOMME (B)

Frédéric BRAHAM (F)

Felieke  VAN DER LEEST (NL/N)

Alexander BLANK (G)

Christer JONSSON (S)

Ramon PUIG CUYÀS (E)

Hilde FOKS (NL) bolkol detail

Young Talents :

Farrah AL-DUJAILI (UK) — Iona M C BROWN (UK) — Daniela CARDILLO (IRL) — Laura DEAKIN (DE) — Katharina DETTAR (DE) — Patricia DOMINGUES (DE) — Adam GRINOVICH (SE) — Melanie ISVERDING (DE) — Hannah JORIS (BE) — Andrew LAMB (UK) — Agnes LARSSON (SE) — Constanze SCHREIBER (DE) — Flora VAGI (HU) — Anna Helena VAN DE POL DE DEUS (IT)

Farrah AL-DUJAILI (UK)

Adam GRINOVICH (S)

Anna Helena VAN DE POL DE DEUS (IT)

Daniela Cardillo, National College of Art and Design, Dublin –  » This is jewellery formed out of electroformed components of dead animals. Skulls, bones, claws – who’d have thought this stuff could be so exquisite?  »

 

 

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17 rue de la Trouille
B-7000 Mons (Belgique)
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