EXPO ‘Second nature’ – Gallery Funaki, Melbourne (AU) – 5 Fevr.-2 Mars 2013

second nature -   Julie Blyfield

« second nature, n.
An acquired behavior or trait that is so long practiced as to seem innate. »

Julie Blyfield ‘Folded Leaf’ neckpiece, 2012 / sterling silver

“Working from one day to the next I focus my attention on observations from nature and working with an ephemeral resource. Using the skills, materials and techniques that are second nature to my practice, I wanted to see where my work would lead as the year progressed. Inspired from things that I observe in the garden or sight on my daily walks, visits to new and different places, observing the change of seasons, altering colours and senses, a visit to Japan and experiencing different mindsets. As the year progresses forms emerge, beginning with loose marks and sketches until paper maquettes evolve and the urgency to translate and make begins, decisions are made, altered and resolved. Materials are selected and ordered. The process repeats over and over, echoing nature’s cycles and repetition. A new beginning is waiting for me and my work.”  Julie Blyfield, 2013

  Julie Blyfield ‘Soft impression’; ‘Coiled leaf’ & ‘Spiral (b)’ brooches, 2013 / silver

Julie Blyfield  Brooches: Shell like, Folded heart-leaf, Spiral 2013  Sterling silver, oxidised sterling silver, enamel paint, wax

Julie Blyfield ‘Heart-leaf’ & ‘Fossil-like’ brooches, 2013 / silver

 

Galleri Funaki
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Melbourne, Victoria
Australia 3000
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EXPO ‘Fresh! 2012′ – Craft, Victoria (AU) – 7-23 Dec. 2012

‘Fresh!’ @ Craft Victoria

Fresh! 2012    Craft is excited to announce its Fresh! 2012 finalists, and to cordially invite you to the launch of this year’s exhibition.    Opening: 6pm Thursday 6 December 2012  At Craft, 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne  Showing: 7 – 23 December 2012

Fresh! is Craft’s annual exhibition of graduate work. This past month industry professionals and Craft staff visited graduate exhibitions across Victoria and selected the best work for Fresh!

Professional development opportunities are offered as awards in partnership with industry supporters. Craft acknowledges the support of its sponsors for Fresh! 2012: Sofitel, Future Leaders, Screaming Pixel, Artichoke and Green Magazine.

Megan Mitchell – Gash (detail),  2012

The Fresh! 2012 artists are:

Blake Barnes (RMIT) — Katie Jayne Britchford (RMIT) — Hau Ong Ding (Monash) — Klara Fletcher (VCA) — Cassie Littlehand (RMIT) — Lindy Mc Swan (RMIT) — Megan Mitchell (Monash) — Olivia O’Donnell (VCA) — Guy Pascoe (RMIT) — Bin Dixon Ward (RMIT) — Brodie Vera Wood (VCA)

 

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EXPO ‘Bequeath’ – e.g.etal, Melbourne (AU) – 22 Oct.-3 Nov. 2012

Bequeath – Julia de Ville – at e.g.etal

Rings are a deeply personal form of adornment. Jewellery from the Victorian era, known for its carefully considered embellishment and bold use of gemstones, typifies the potential for beautiful objects to take on significant personal meaning. This is jewellery that traces romantic love and loss, climbing to the heights of devotion and flirting poetically with the depths of despair. …….

« Julia’s work is characterised by the use of symbols and motifs from past eras. Her precious rings combine found settings from antique jewellery. Over several years, Julia has sourced antique jewellery and gemstones—their original owners long since deceased—waiting patiently for the right combination to form a new creation in her mind and then at her workbench. Through conceptual consideration and traditional and contemporary techniques she appropriates and reconfigures older pieces to form a new design.
Rings are a deeply personal form of adornment. Jewellery from the Victorian era, known for its carefully considered embellishment and bold use of gemstones, typifies the potential for beautiful objects to take on significant personal meaning. This is jewellery that traces romantic love and loss, climbing to the heights of devotion and flirting poetically with the depths of despair. The symmetry and order of the Victorian aesthetic is here transcended in the form of jewellery that combines settings and gems to create something that feels familiar but is post modern and intuitive in its approach to form and colour.
As the title of the exhibition implies, this work is about the potential for life to continue, even as we don’t. Each ring has the appearance of a collection of family heirlooms that have been melted gracefully into one piece. Julia herself says, “I’m constantly in awe of jewellery’s capacity to carry meaning beyond our own lives. For example, my mother is going to be turned into a diamond when she dies and I will make her into a ring for myself. Thus her life, in some form, continues…”
This will be Julia’s first solo jewellery exhibition in over five years. In the meantime she has been exhibiting her sculptural taxidermy work. This includes having pieces included in the collection at MONA, as well as her most recent solo exhibition, ‘Sarcophagus’, at Sophie Gannon Gallery in August 2012. »

Julia Deville  Rings: Untitled 2012  White gold, sapphires, diamonds

Julia Deville Bequeath Ring

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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

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Incinerator Gallery
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Moonee Ponds, VICTORIA.
Australia 3039
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Incinerator Art Space
Willoughby, Sydney

EXPO ‘Forever Plastic’ – Studio 20/17, Waterloo (AU) – 16 Oct.-3 Nov. 2012

Leanne Marshall and Hannah Carlyle : Forever Plastic

In a culture awash with disposable objects, is it possible for contemporary jewellery made from resin, a material often associated with mass-produced junk, to be considered ‘precious’ and be handed down through the generations?
Leanne Marshall and Hannah Carlyle explore these notions though their jewellery and showcase these ideas in their collaborative exhibition ‘Forever Plastic’. These artists are driven by challenging audience’s ideas about plastic jewellery, what it stands for and what it should look like. By combining resin forms with other materials and Sterling Silver; Hannah with semi-precious stones and Leanne with enamel, gem stones and cast organic silver forms, they elevate plastic jewellery into the realm of the artistic and precious.
Common to both artists is their love of colour and the processes of making resin – the pouring, layering of colour, and working the cured material to carve, sculpt and finish. Through experimentation these artists have developed different and specialised approaches to the material.
‘Forever Plastic’ will showcase new and original pieces of jewellery (earrings, neckpieces, rings and bracelets) from both Leanne Marshall and Hannah Carlyle.

Hannah Carlyle – orange Resin Earrings

  Leanne Marshall – Dark Crystal Garden brooch 3,  2012 – Resin, nickel silver, silver, steel, blue-green sapphire, cold enamel, Image by Kara Goodwin

Hannah Carlyle – rooftop brooch

 

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NSW 2017 – Waterloo
Australia
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EXPO ‘What is it with earrings’ – Bilk Gallery, Canberra (AU) – 5-24 Oct. 2012

what is it with earrings  5-24 oct 2012

 

 

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EXPO ‘Peta Kruger: This Fool’s Gold’ – Pieces of Eight Gallery, Melbourne (AU) – 4 Sept.-6 Oct. 2012

Peta Kruger: This Fool’s Gold  – Pieces of Eight Gallery  (Melbourne, Australia)  04-Sep-2012 – 06-Oct-2012

This spring, Adelaide based jeweller Peta Kruger installs This Fool’s Gold, her new solo exhibition at Pieces of Eight Gallery. Her new work, created exclusively for this exhibition, comprises entirely of painted brass works, demonstrating a continued link between her practice as an illustrator and jeweller. These wearable works are lively, and informed by her much loved jewellery collection from childhood. Working with the large dimensions of the façade, Kruger has also created over scaled interpretations of her work, painted on board.
This exhibition follows her recent mentorship with German jeweller Karl Fritsch and is her first solo exhibition in Melbourne.
“The jewellery collection that I grew up treasuring included plated orchid souvenirs, Disney charms, leather gum leaves, ‘tiger eye’ and painted plastics. It was by observing and interacting with these pieces that I came to understand the basics of object construction. There was very little materially precious jewellery; colour and shape was what I valued most.
Brass is a material that can be used to learn the basics of jewellery making, and I take great comfort and pleasure in continuing to work with it. It allows me to cut, bend and stick parts together in a playful and spontaneous way, slowly discovering a collection of shapes and patterns with which I am happy.” Peta Kruger, June 2012.

Peta Kruger  Brooch: This Fool’s Gold,  Brass, silver, paint

Peta Kruger  Neckpiece: This Fool’s Gold  Brass, silk cord, paint

 

 

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28 Russell Place
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Australia
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EXPO ‘for the love of coffee’ – Studio2017, Waterloo (AU) – 2-13 Oct. 2012

« for the love of coffee »  – studio2017 – AU – 2-13oct

These contemporary jewellers love their coffee. We aren’t going to tell you that it’s the ‘be all and end all’ to their existence, but we reckon it would come in a pretty close second. Perhaps you might find that this show is not so much about the work rather the stories and anecdotes that can be shared over a good strong cup of Joe.

I assume one could parallel the making of coffee with the making of art or jewellery, but we won’t go that far. Really, all you need to know is that these Jewellers love their coffee. Without it, they might not have met up with an old friend and discussed their ideas, they might not have pulled apart their machine to see how it works, conversely they might not have built a machine to share the love, and they certainly might not have made the interesting, humorous and thought provoking work that you will see on display.

(Nina Baker “Sachets” brooches, Sterling Silver, Stainless steel pin, filled with steel street sweeper bristles)

Participating jewellers: Vernon Bowden — Karen Thompson — Erin Keys & Regine Middleton — Mary Hackett — Alice Potter — Bic Tieu — Linda Blair — Nina Baker — Barbara Cotter — Elizabeth Shaw — Melinda Young — Regine Schwarzer

  Alice Potter  Necklace: Today Is A Good Day 2012  925 silver, copper, paint, lapis lazuli, red coral, silk

Melinda Young  Necklace: A place to start and A string of thoughts 2012  Acrylic and wax on canvas, freshwater pearls, yellow jade, 925 silver, silk thread

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EXPO ‘A found thing (the consolation of consolations)’ – e.g.etal, Victoria (AU) – 17-29 Sept. 2012

a found thing (the consolation of consolations)

A solo exhibition by Katherine Bowman…    Monday 17 September – Saturday 29 September    Opening: Thursday 20 September, 6pm – 8pm at e.g.etal

The walls of Katherine Bowman’s studio are lined with dozens of sketchbooks. These books contain decades’ worth of drawings as well as ephemera, images found and clipped from magazines, swathes of watercolour and daubs of glitter, poetry collected and thoughts recorded, ideas pursued and concepts expressed. These books are the documentation of a life of collecting, a life of looking and exploring ways of seeing the world—a life of seeking to understand. For Katherine, this journey finds expression in art and in making. a found thing (the consolation of consolations), Katherine’s first solo exhibition of jewellery in Melbourne in five years, is the articulation of her journey thus far…
We form relationships with the objects we collect. These relationships define and add meaning to our lives. Over time, the jewellery that we collect comes to define who we are and our life’s experiences: its milestones and its fleeting moments, our thoughts and our feelings and our tastes. The rings, earrings, pendants and works on paper in this exhibition express an honesty of process, form and material. They are carefully brought into being to carry meanings both expressed and inexpressible. It is in seeing and in touching these works that we are taken in by them. A tactile relationship is formed and in this the role of the maker becomes immediately but also subtly evident.
a found thing (the consolation of consolations) is made up of seven different bodies of work. Each body explores a slightly different aesthetic, creating the impression of having been collected at different times and from different places; colour, texture and form drawing them all together even as they stand apart.
For Katherine this work is the culmination of years of research and experience. It is about a deep love of making. This work is the work of a collector and a maker and it is about the relationship between these two elements of Katherine’s art.

 Katherine BOWMAN  sketches

 

e.g.etal Gallery
167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Victoria, 3000 Australia

EXPO ‘Karl Fritsch: Die Allgäuer Ringmaschine’ – Gallery Funaki, Melbourne (AU) – 3-9 Sept. 2012

Karl Fritsch: Die Allgäuer Ringmaschine

German jeweller Karl Fritsch is a cult jewellery icon and the maker of the most covetable rings in the world. Now residing in New Zealand, Fritsch uses gold, silver and precious stones to make pieces that seem to have been unearthed from some distant, romantic era… but the imaginary ravages of time and entropy have left these rings more fascinating, more compelling and more desirable than ever.
Collected with passion by fashion and art movers and shakers, and awarded the highest honours in contemporary jewellery, Fritsch’s work is also held in public collections worldwide, including our own NGV.
Presented as part of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2012.

Karl Fritsch  Ring: Untitled 2009  Silver, green sapphires

Karl Fritsch  Ring

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