EXPO ‘WWWA’ – Estonian Museum of Applied Art & Design, Tallinn (EE) – 7 Nov. 2014- 18 Janv. 2015

WWWA [Words & Works from a World Away (Sõnad ja tööd sealt kaugelt)] – Estonian Museum of Applied Art & Design

A collaboration of Estonian and Australian jewellery artists

OPENING 7 november 2014 – 5pm
Kuraator: Claire McArdle

What do they say about us on the other side of the world?
And what do you know about them?
This exhibition unites the northern and southern hemispheres through the work of jewellery and object artists from Australia & Estonia. In each country statements were collected from ordinary members of the public about their knowledge and opinion of the other country. Each artist chose a statement about their country from someone on the other side of the world. The piece they made is a reaction to this statement.
Words spoken across the globe invite a personal study of our own culture and a reaction to other’s perceptions of who we are. Each piece is a navigation of an outsider’s perspective and the resulting realisations and revelations about our own identity.
The two cultures have been explored through unverified perceptions and understandings. The resulting objects are repositories of both cultural and personal narratives. They examine the global flow of information between two physically and culturally separate countries and provoke an international exploration of self.

Linda al-Assi [EST] — Robert Baines [AUS] — Nicholas Bastin [AUS] — Robin Bold [AUS] — Zoe Brand [AUS] — Melissa Cameron [AUS] — Anna Davern [AUS] — Mark Edgoose [AUS] — Rita-Livia Erikson [EST] — Ulvi Haagensen [EST] — Mary Hackett [AUS] — Kirsten Haydon [AUS] — Nils Hint [EST] — Naoko Inuzuka [AUS] — Annika Kedelauk [EST] — Inari Kiuru [AUS] — Aija Kivi [EST] — Keiu Koppel [EST] — Katarina Kotselainen [EST] — Teresa Lane [AUS] — Urmas Lüüs [EST] — Kadri Mälk [EST] — Claire McArdle [AUS] — Hans-Otto Ojaste [EST] — Kaire Rannik [EST] — Anne Reinberg [EST] –  Adolfas Šaulys & Mari Relo-Šaulys [EST] — Mark Vaarwerk [AUS] — Anita Van Doorn [AUS] — Tanel Veenre [EST]

Tanel Veenre,   Metsik eljas I/Wild Beast I, 2012 Eesti/Estonia – Photo: Marc Morel

Nils Hint

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Estonian Museum of Applied Art & Design
Lai tn 17,
Tallinn 10133
Estonia, Tallinn

Open Wed-Sun 11.00-18.00

EXPO ‘CHAINED’ – Bilk Gallery, Manuka (AU) – 12 Avril-18 Mai 2013

Bilk gallery – Chained – Thirteen Australian artists interpretation of “The Chain”

he artists have explored the theme in gold, titanium, silver, aluminium, glass, wood, recycled signs, all with an over riding link of movement as they beautifully fit the body.

Opened Friday 12 April until 18 May 2013

Movement, articulation and a nod to the historical reference to a reoccurring unit: the link. Or better than a string of pearls!
The results are as varied and imaginative as the makers, some are vibrant, others elegant and restrained with simple coloured lines.The artists have explored the theme in gold, titanium, silver, aluminium, glass, wood, recycled signs, all with an over riding link of movement as they beautifully fit the body.
A real chain of events now showing at Bilk Gallery –
Alice Potter — Blanche Tilden — Jill Hermans — Johannes Kuhnen — Mark Vaarwerk — Maureen Faye-Chauhan — Michelle Taylor — Nellie Peoples — Phoebe Porter — Sarah Murphy — Sophia Emmett — Sean O’Connell — Tracy Pateman

 

 

Bilk Gallery

12 Palmerston Lane, Manuka
[phone]
Tues – Fri 11.00am – 5.00pm
Sat 11.00am – 4.00pm
Or by appointment

EXPO ‘Bilk on Tour – Australian jewellery’ – Incinerator Gallery, Victoria (AU) – 15 Sept.-21 Oct. 2012

Bilk on Tour – Australian jewellery

 

A touring exhibition from Canberra featuring jewellery, glass and metal.

Bilk on Tour is an exhibition curated by designer and teacher Helen Aitken-Kuhnen of Bilk Gallery  in Canberra, surveying the field of Australian jewellery design and metal-smithing, featuring over 30 artists.  It will travel to the
Incinerator Art Space in Willoughby, Sydney (31 Oct 2012-25 Nov 2012), after the exhibition at the Incinerator Gallery.

(Jill Hermans brooch)

ARTISTS:  Alice Potter — Alison Jackson — Carlier Makigawa — Christopher Robertson — Cinnamon Lee — Dore Stockhausen — Eliza Gregerson — Eugenie Keefer Bell — Sophia Emmett — Helen Aitken-Kuhnen — Janice Vitkovsky – Jess Dare – Jill Hermans — Johannes Kuhnen — Kath Inglis — Kirstie Rea — Lan Nguyen-Hoan — Marcus Foley — Mark Edgoose — Mark Vaarwerk — Mel Douglas — Tanja Taglietti — Mio Kuhnen — Mel George — Melissa Cameron — Michelle Taylor — Nicholas Bastin — Clare Belfrage — Tom Rowney — Sarah Rothe — Scott Chaseling — Klaus Moje — Simon Cottrell — Sarah Murphy — Ximena Natanya Briceño — Sue Lorraine — Vicki Mason — Robert Foster.

Melissa Cameron. Ray, 2012. Stainless steel, vitreous enamel, 925 silver fixings.

Mark Vaarwerk – brooch orange 53mm materials: expanded polystyrene food box, polystyrene vacuum cleaner casing, permanent marker ink, stainless

Carlier Makigawa Brooch 2011  Oxidised silver, coral

Sue Lorraine  Beetle  Brooch 2012  heat coloured mild steel, vinyl record

Michelle Taylor, « Upon the horizon » brooch

Marcus Foley -  Organic Geometry 2012 – yellow & white gold, zircon

Jess Dare – « Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor » brooch – 2011 – Lampwork Glass, Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel, Powder Coated Copper, Titanium

Jill Hermans, Shibuichi Brooch, 2011. Shibuichi, stainless steel pin. Photo by Gabe Anderson

Simon Cottrell  Brooch: Doubled Double Circles And Over 2012  Monel, stainless steel

Kath Inglis – chartreuse shard neckpiece  – hand cut from a single piece of PVC

 

BILK GALLERY12 Palmerston Lane, Manuka
Canberra – AU

https://bilkgallery.wordpress.com/

 

Incinerator Gallery
180 Holmes Road,
Moonee Ponds, VICTORIA.
Australia 3039
tel [phone]

 

Incinerator Art Space
Willoughby, Sydney

EXPO ‘Once More, With Love’ – studio2017, Waterloo, Sydney (AU) – 31 Juill.–18 Aout 2012

Once More, With Love

Many people are unaware of the darker side of jewellery production – the ethical issues, including the exploitation of workers, damage to the environment, resource depletion, as well as health issues for jewellers themselves. As makers of jewellery we acknowledge that our field interacts with complex notions of ‘want’ versus ‘need’. Hence we are aware of the importance of taking responsibility for how our individual practices may affect the needs and livelihoods of communities and environments globally.

 

Once More, With Love is a not-for-profit travelling jewellery exhibition raising concepts of sustainability, recycling and ethical production. The project involves over 30kg of unwanted jewellery items donated by the Australian public which have been reworked ‘with love’ for this exhibition by a diverse selection of twenty one contemporary jewellers all with a proven interest in ethical making and recycled materials.  The works created for Once More, With Love propose a potential new life cycle for materials, while creating space for reflecting on their origins. The project is an opportunity for people to experience what creative minds can do with recycled materials in an everyday studio context.

The Once More, With Love project was started in 2010 by Suse Scholem, a contemporary jeweller from Melbourne who is passionate about sustainability and the power of art and community engagement. Suse was inspired by the activities of the American group Ethical Metalsmiths, who have significantly increased ethical/sustainability awareness in the American jewellery industry.  The Once More, With Love project grew from the success of a Melbourne-based jewellery recycling project organised by Suse.  As interest in the project grew, a significant number of jewellers became involved, and internationally respected jewellery artist Simon Cottrell, took on the role of co-curator. Along the way, the project has attracted significant patrons such as Dr Kevin Murray, Vice President of the World Craft Council, Asia Region, and Katie Scott Director of Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.

After Sydney, the exhibition will be heading to Canberra in October 2012 and then to Melbourne in early 2013.

In addition to the touring exhibition, the Once More, With Love project will involve events in each host city incorporating community discussions; as well as an ongoing website www.oncemorewithlove.com with information about issues relevant to the ethical sustainable implications of jewellery resources. The entire project was conceived with the aim of bringing the entire breadth of the jewellery community together to enter a dialogue around sustainable/ethical practice.  The project will be culminating in a weekend seminar in Melbourne Autumn 2013 which is still in planning

 

The artists involved in Once More, With Love include:
Zoe Brand — Melissa Cameron — Sarah Carlson — Simon Cottrell — Anna Davern — Sian Edwards — Karin Findeis — Susan Frisch — Jill Hermans — Alison Jackson — Tassia Joannides — Julie Kiefel — Ali Limb — Vicki Mason — Regina Middleton — Sean O’Connell — Suse Scholem — Vicky Shukuroglou — Ute Roseler — Melinda Young — Mark Vaarwerk.

Melinda Young’s process (1,2,3) :

Melinda Young 1

Melinda Young 2 – ‘Grid neckpiece’ 925 Silver, Turquoise, Howlite, Acrylic Mirror, Epoxy, Silk Thread

Melinda Young 3 – ‘Scatter neckpiece’ Lapis Lazuli, Sodalie, Scrap Acrylic, 925 Silver, Silk Thread

Zoe Brand – ‘Between Sydney/Canberra’ used postal bag

Regina Middleton – ‘sylvia’s pin’ : electrical wire, shell, coral, freshwater pearls, cultured pearls, fake pearls, + other mystery bag materials, silver, steel pin

 

 

Studio 20/17
2 Danks St, Waterloo, Sydney

 

Gallery Bilk

12 Palmerston Lane, Manuka
Canberra