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Contemporary Jewellery Showcase 2026
Eep! We’re already half-way into this one-week superfast-superfun show at Shopfront Gallery at 149 Beaufort St in Boorloo/Perth. I’ve been all over Insta and even alerted Klimt02 and Garland, but did I get around to my own blog?!? Phew, it’s been a week y’all. See earlier posts for just a few of the local shenanigans……
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Jewellery Techniques Series
Midland Junction Arts Centre – Workshop Over two days learn specific tools and techniques to turn scrap copper and plastics into unique wearable jewels. In the first session you will learn to strip copper electrical wire from its plastic sheath and then recycle it to make your own jewellery. You will learn cold forming techniques…
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Happy 2026 🙂
Hello! We’ve made it though the back end of ’25 and into a new year, with global shenanigans barrelling on (oohhh, barrelling, like oil?) at a pace that 2020 and our then content-starved senses couldn’t have ever fathomed. For those regular onlookers, you’ll note that usually I’ll post a Solsticefest greeting in time for the…
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The Poetics of Place II
From the Atta Gallery website: Poetics of Place ll by Australian Artists, Curated by Melinda Young May 15, 2025 – July 13, 2025 The Poetics of Place brings together the work of 16 makers across contemporary craft, object-based and textile practices whose work explores, expands and troubles the concept of ‘place’ in post-colonial Australia and Aotearoa.…
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On the horizon…
It may look like a clean slate, but it’s the incoming traffic just above the horizon line that’s widening eyes and setting my little duck-legs to paddlin’. March: Heading to Munich for the jewellery-obsessive’s most favoured/feared hang, Munich Jewellery Week. No, I’m not in the IHM’s one and only Schmuck exhibition this year (but great…
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MC and HO meet BKK at AG
In between appearing at conferences – IOTA 24 in September and JMGA in October – (more on those soonish!) I went to Thailand for the first time, thanks to an invitation to exhibit at Atta Gallery in one of IOTA‘s first international exhibits. Handily, ceramic artist Holly O’Meehan and I managed to earn a grant,…
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Banner + Badge – New Website!
The decade-long wait for new content on my main website is over! There are not enough emoji to convey the effort expended, and the gratitude and relief to have it up and out in the world. https://www.melissacameron.net/exhibition/banner_and_badge/ You just gotta see it for yourself 😉 Before I get into that, and the show, I need…
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Lost in Translation
IOTA is off to Bangkok – Jude, Holly and I will see you at Atta gallery on the 8th of September!! Lost in Translation A Group Exhibition by 18 Artists from the Indian Ocean Region Curated by by Haisang Javanalikhikara and Atty Tantivit 29 August – 20 October 2024 Opening Reception on 8 September 2024;…
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JMGA Conference 2024 – registrations are open!
book online now! Announcing the 19th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia Conference Saturday October 5th, 2024WA Maritime Museum,Victoria Quay Road, Walyalup/Fremantle The JMGA Conference Committee are pleased to announce the details of the upcoming biennial Conference. Taking place at the WA Maritime Museum, just outside of Boorloo/Perth, in Walyalup/Fremantle, this famed biennial event returns…
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Radical Jewelry Makeover at Metal Museum, Memphis
The reception for Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) Artist Project at the Metal Museum is TODAY (central standard USA time)! RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK FEB. 11, 20243 – 5PM Please join us for a conversation with the Radical Jewelry Makeover co-directors, Susie Ganch and Kathleen Kennedy, at the opening reception. Metal Museum website Radical Jewelry Makeover: The Artist…
