A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry
via Brigitte Martin on Crafthaus
A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry explores the manifold appeal of ceramics, especially porcelain, in jewelry. Organized by the Fondation d’Entreprise Bernardaud and curated by the renowned German-born goldsmith and jewelry artist Monika Brugger, the exhibition showcases the versatility and allure of the medium, which can be modeled or cast, used alone or with metal, wood, and stone, and vary in color and texture. Best known as the stuff of the luxurious and the mundane, of fine tableware and technical equipment, when used in jewelry, porcelain sparks the visual and physical sensations to become an object of desire. The exhibition showcases the scope and ingenuity of the more than one hundred works on view and features the work of 18 cutting-edge jewelry artists, including creations by such notables as Peter Hoogeboom, Evert Nijland, Ted Noten (The Netherlands), Gésine Hackenberg (Germany), Marie Pendariès (Spain), and Shu-Lin Wu (Taiwan). While some make reference to traditional jewelry in materials and symbolism, others altogether redefine it in substance, form, and matter.For more info please visit Crafthaus
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Woodfire Tasmania
28 April – 1 May 2011 Deloraine
Woodfire Tasmania 2011 is an event for potters, sculptors, students, educators, collectors, curators, and anyone else with an interest in the ceramic arts. The program will grow from the interests and offerings of makers from around Australia and overseas and be a revelation and celebration of the visions, prophesies and imaginings of a variety of clay and fire practitioners. There will be exhibitions, demonstrations, guest speakers, forums, individual presentations, films, and pre and post program offerings.
All the details can be found here on their website.
Better late than never? Maybe you can still go if you’re nearby…
The Big Smoke 2011 1-3 April
Auckland is the host city for New Zealand’s next National Ceramics conference. The 2011 conference is organised in conjunction with New Zealand Society of Potters, Auckland Studio Potters and Unitec. This event is expected to bring together a diverse range of people involved in the ceramics field both from New Zealand and internationally. The public will have the opportunity to see a vast range of ceramics both from collections and current practitioners. As well as the National New Zealand Society of Potters show many of the Auckland galleries are planning ceramics exhibitions to coincide with the conference. The three day event will provide an academic and social agenda with keynote addresses, guest speakers, workshops, demonstrations, dinner and firings, live entertainment, trade fairs and bus tours. It is intended that this conference and associated events will promote New Zealand ceramics practice to the national and international community. We invite artists, students, educators, writers, curators and suppliers to meet in Auckland in April 2011.
Choosing Craft Lecture tour
American curator, writer and historian, Vicki Halper is visiting Australia in April from 1 – 21 April 2011. Craft Australia is bringing her to Australia because of her expert knowledge of contemporary craft and visual arts practice. This was the basis of her recent book, Choosing Craft: A History Told by Artists, which describes the influences that have shaped American craft through the writings of the artists.
Throughout her tour, Vicki will be giving talks about Choosing Craft, her focus will be on the roles of tradition and innovation within current craft practice. This includes her perspectives on the relationships between craft and design in industry and the historical foundations for this way of working. Vicki proposes to talk about these themes in her lectures. She is also interested in doing critique sessions with the students at the art schools in the universities she will be visiting. The other significant part of the tour is meeting some of the key makers and emerging artists in their studios. Proposed visits
- Sydney: Powerhouse Museum, Sabbia Gallery, Metalab, Object Gallery
- Canberra: Craft ACT, Canberra Glassworks, and the decorative arts collection at the National Gallery of Australia.
- Adelaide: JamFactory, visits artists through a program planned by CraftSouth, and the collection of decorative arts held at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Melbourne: Craft Victoria, jewellery and ceramic studios and meet the artists at studios such as the Nicholson Building and the Abbotsford Convent, decorative arts collection at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Proposed talks:
- Sydney: University of Technology, Sydney,
the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts,talk details, Monday 4 April; - Sydney College of the Arts, Tuesday 5 April
- Canberra: ANU School of Art, Thursday 7 April, 2011
- Melbourne: A talk on jewellery at RMIT University
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