Category: Jewellery

  • 19th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia national biennial conference – call for papers + workshops

    Have you heard?? The Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia invite expressions of interest for the 2024 conference in Perth, Western Australia. The JMGA have convened biennially since 1980 to celebrate, educate and showcase contemporary jewellery in the region. The theme; “Involution: Making Jewellery, Creating Change” captures the entangled pushing and pulling of organisms constantly…

  • Annual Studio Sale

    Annual Studio Sale

    Yes, it’s that time again. If your feasting and shopping are going well, maybe you have a moment to stop in? Though perhaps, more importantly, if they are going poorly, you should stop by and be refreshed and rewarded by your visit. Join me in December on:Friday the 16th, 11am – 5pmSaturday the 17th, 11am…

  • Remade-Reloved, preview

    Remade-Reloved, preview

    This is not a work; this was a photo I took as a study for a work. In the end I lost the knot (unintentionally, damn!) but it precipitated something a bit more involved, using these two ingredients. Stay tuned – or better yet – head to Bridget Kennedy Project Space for the Remade-Reloved exhibition…

  • Remade-Reloved

    ‘Remade-Reloved’ is a group exhibition curated by Bridget Kennedy that opens next week at her studio/gallery in North Sydney. And for those of you not in the know, it will be one of the last shows at the Bridget Kennedy Project Space, as Bridget is going to be closing down the gallery next March, after…

  • LOBES at Danaca in Seattle

    LOBES at Danaca in Seattle

    LOBES – it has meaning Dana at Danaca Design announced her intention to have a holiday earring show with local Seattle makers back in October (while I happened to be visiting the town I called home for 6.5 years for the first time since I left in 2018), and I immediately jumped on the bandwagon.…

  • NYCJW – Makeover: Radical Jewelry Makeover Artist Project!

    NYCJW – Makeover: Radical Jewelry Makeover Artist Project!

    This one is going to be a doozy; so many of my friends and highly respected colleagues are in this exhibition, and it’s happening in one of my fave parts of town. Fomo is real y’all; but I’m really happy to at least have my works be a part of this show. Madeover: Radical Jewelry…

  • NYCJW – Sarah Elson + Melissa Cameron

    NYCJW – Sarah Elson + Melissa Cameron

    The talk I recently recorded for New York City Jewelry Week goes live on their YouTube Channel this week. It’ll be up on Thursday New York time, so Friday here in Aus, and for most of the rest of you, somewhere in between! It’s a long and involved one-sided conversation so if you have any…

  • Deadlines looming!

    Deadlines looming!

    I know, I stopped spruiking other people’s biz a few years back, but sometimes… 1/ JMGAWA 2024 Conference Deadline for Expressions of Interest and Abstracts for presentations is November 30th. 2/ IOTA:24 Expressions of Interest sought, deadline November 14 3/ DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS – OPEN CALL DoS was an exhibition curated and organized by CO+LAB…

  • New York City Jewelry Week 2022

    New York City Jewelry Week 2022

    I’m presenting a virtual talk at this year’s NYC Jewelry Week: Jewelers Sarah Elson + Melissa Cameron at IOTA:21 Artist talk presented by Melissa Cameron Perth-based jewellers share their experience of exhibiting at the inaugural Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in Western Australia in 2021. The pair debuted new works at the hugely successful festival, so…

  • Regenerate – Perth

    The Jewellers and Metalsmith’s Group of Australia WA branch are having a show! There’s twenty-nine WA artists exhibiting at Camelot Arts Building (yes, in the cinema building!) in Mosman Park, starting Friday night, the 30th of September. I’m in the show and will be at the opening so please come along and say hey, or…