Scapolite Vessel, Akoya Cup, Lichen Cup_Photo Connor Patterson
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Australia’s Next Top Designers
Design Show Australia, Melbourne
15 June - 18 June 20223
Shining a spotlight on emerging designers, makers and creatives, Australia’s Next Top Designers Showcase curates an arrange of breakthrough products and concepts shaping the future of design.
Exhibiting the ‘Haustorium Series’
Utilising street salvaged discarded polystyrene, single use plastics and found objects, combined with traditional metalsmithing techniques to reimagine waste and elevate materials frequently overlooked. The objects are entombed beneath layers of hard copper amour via a laborious process of electroforming, creating something recognisable yet foreign, organic but manmade, once discarded now valued.
More information at:
designshow.com.au
Akoya Cup, Lichen Cup. Photo Connor Patterson
Material Metamorphasis
JamFactory Seppeltsfield, Barossa
4 March - 8 May 20223
With an overarching theme of recycling and sustainability, this group exhibition showcases the diverse ways in which artists reuse and repurpose common waste materials to produce innovative craft and design objects.
Exhibitors: Polly Dymond, Lisa Furno, Sue Garrard, Rebecca Hartman-Kearns, Annika Karskens, Peta Kruger, Xanthe Murphy, Numbulwar Numburindi Arts, and Bolaji Teniola.
This Mess Galaxy Pendant #17. Photo Grant Hancock
Profile Contemporary Jewellery & Object Award
Hazelhurst Arts Centre, NSW
26 November 2022 - 29 January 2023
Australian Design Centre, Sydney
9 August - 28 September 2022
In partnership with the Jewellery and Metalsmiths Group of Australia – NSW Inc., Australian Design Centre presents Profile: Contemporary Jewellery and Object Award.
A diverse group of 73 national and international contemporary jewellers and object designers have been shortlisted for exhibition. Their work considers concepts from the personal to topical, crafted across a wide material range from precious gold to plastic waste.
This Mess Pendant #4
Contemporary Wearables '21 Biennial Jewellery Award
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
4 September - 31 October 2021
Contemporary Wearables Biennial Jewellery Award and Exhibition is the focus of Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery's contribution to promoting excellence in contemporary adornment. The Award was established in 1989, with the aid of the Toowoomba Gallery Society Inc., and is a forum for experimental and innovative contemporary jewellery and object practice. Acquisitions from the Award have made a significant contribution to building one Australia’s leading contemporary jewellery collections housed at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.
Visit Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery for more info.
This Mess Series (excerpt)
From little things…
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
10 - 27 March 2022
Danielle Barrie | Daria Fox | Emma Cuppleditch | Erin Daniell | Gretal Ferguson | Kath Inglis | Katherine Grocott | Polly Dymond | Sarra Tzijan
Staff, Associates and recent Alumni from JamFactory’s Jewellery + Metal Studio reflect on the little things and what can grow. This exhibition speaks of movement, change and human agency.
Exhibition preview held online as part of Radiant Pavilion 2021 Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial, September 2021.
Full exhibition will be held at at Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, when lockdown restrictions allow. Please follow their Instagram @brunswickstreetgallery for details.
Collide + Divide. Photo Lou Cresp
Collide + Divide
Craft ACT, Canberra
19 May - 2 July 2022
Erin Daniell | Mirjana Dobson | Bailey Donovan | Polly Dymond | Daria Fox | Sam Gold | Alex Hirst | David Liu | Francesca Sykes | Eloise White | Duncan Young
Collide + Divide is a discipline-bending object based exhibition that will feature eleven emerging JamFactory associates who work in various mediums. Each artist has been put into a group where they will collaborate on creating a body of work that celebrates interdisciplinary skill sharing, merging both contemporary art and craftsmanship.