Jewellist at Large
A quick question – did you enter the Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition?
Hey, about that last post – did anyone end up entering the Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition?
Cryptic I know, but if you did, could you let me know? Email address on the side bar, or leave a comment below 😉
Cheers!
Melissa is in Narrative Jewelry: tales from the toolbox, edited by Mark Fenn. Are you in it too?
I’ve got to sell you this book that’s launching very soon:
Narrative Jewelry: tales from the toolbox, edited by Mark Fenn, is now available for pre-order via www.narrative-jewellery.com and www.markfenn.co.uk or via the usual.
And since I’m here (and only if you’re really, really quick – two expire in a matter of hours), let me sell you on entering these 3 things:
and one for the 18th – China time:
Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition – a biennial
Melissa will be enameling and talking about enameling for all comers in Oakland next week. Come along!
There’s a day or so left to register for my upcoming workshop in Oakland next week:
Enameling Recycled Steel for Jewelry and Objects – a workshop with Melissa Cameron
I will be sticking around in Oakland to attend day one of a weekend of large scale enameling at KVO Industries on the 9th, which is super-exciting. Knowing that I have plans to make some more panel-based works in the next year or so for a show in the UK, I’m looking to up my large-format game, and since Judy Stone at the Center for Enamel Art – all-round champion of enamel and artists – suggested I do it, how could I refuse? Not that my moderate-panel game appears to be too shabby, as I recently won a prize for Wall Works (for the above) in the Enamelist Society Alchemy 4 Juried Exhibition!
I’ll also be giving a free public lecture next Wednesday night at California College of the Arts:
“From a tamper-proof fence to Body Politic – my enamel journey so far” 7:30pm, Nahl Hall, Oakland Campus, 5212 Broadway (map)
Looking forward to spending time in the heat after just finishing up my Aussie shenanigans of the past few weeks. Northern Summer, come at me!
Cameron-Sellers, In conversation at Bini Gallery as a part of Radiant Pavilion 2017
It’s very late notice, but Caitie Sellers (USA) and I will be in conversation at our group show, Shared Concerns, at Bini Gallery in Collingwood from 3-4pm tomorrow afternoon. Please come along!
Shared Concerns is opening at Radiant Pavilion in Melbourne on the 25th of August. Come meet 3 of the artists!
For those of you visiting Melbourne for the upcoming Radiant Pavilion festivities (on the map we’re stop 53, on the Collingwood/Fitzroy border), and of course all of you locals, please consider yourself invited to the opening of Shared Concerns at Bini Gallery from 5:30pm on Friday the 25th of August.
This opening of the show is very special as it will see a record attendance of participating artists at the opening – we will be joined by our Victorian artists Jill Hermans as well as Caitie Sellers from Richmond, VA in the USA, and me! I’m so excited to see everyone in my beloved second home city, I just can’t wait! Hope to catch you there 🙂
Plate Glass opens at Arrowmont next week!
Plate Glass opens next Monday!
The opening celebration will be on Friday the 4th of August, the first night of the Enamelist Society Alchemy4 Conference at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I’ll be there to open the show and see the other enamel exhibitions that are simultaneously on at Arrowmont, including the 16th Juried International Enamel Exhibition, in which I happen to have a couple of work, as well as attend the conference.
Why Plate Glass? Well, I was asked to curate a show early to mid career artists for the conference, so I invited artists from all over the world to show off their talent and skills in the enamel medium by working on the same simple canvas – a plate!
The invited artists are:
Nicolette Absil
Alicia Jane Boswell
Susan Buchanan
Kat Cole
Katie Collins
Danielle Embry
Laura Eyles
Aurelie Guillaume
Annie Gobel
Steffi Götze
Naoko Inuzuka
Kaori Juzu
Rachel Kedinger
Inari Kiuru
Mio Kuhnen
Zachery Lechtenberg
Camilla Luihn
Sharon Massey
Lindy McSwan
Marissa Saneholtz
Samantha Skelton
Demitra Thomloudis
Jen Townsend
Claire Townsend
Leah Wadey
Kate Wischusen
Hsiao Ai Wang
Aurelia Yeomans
and they have each excelled themselves in this exhibition. Come along and see the shows, and if you’re about next Friday, please say g’day!
I’m heading to “Beautiful, downtown Oakland, California.” Wanna know why?
The Center for Enamel Art in California has invited me to lead one of their Radical Enameling workshops, so I’m headed to The Crucible in Oakland from the 6th – 8th of September for:
Enameling Recycled Steel for Jewelry and Objects – a workshop with Melissa Cameron
Got a hankering to try out some experimental enameling? Join us to find out how straightforward and un-fussy enameling can be. We’re going to work on all types of steel – including that which we find on the street – to make beautifully enamelled jewels and objects, with the addition of porcelain enamel that will be applied in its liquid form.
I always look forward to these classes because of the way people surprise themselves when confronted with a medium that can be used in such diverse ways; behaving like watercolor, spray paint or even sand. Its versatility enables each maker to leverage their mastery in traditional materials – say even pencil and markers – and then make permanent the results by literally baking them on.
And hey, it’s in “beautiful, downtown Oakland, California!”
(Thanks to Roman Mars of the 99% Invisible podcast for being the indelible voice in my head for that line 😉 )
The one about going to Sheffield in the UK to do jewellery things.
I’m on route to Sheffield to speak at the ACJ 20:20 Visions Conference about my works (spoiler, I’m on Saturday afternoon), and I’m getting pretty excited, and no, just not just to go to the multiple steel museums!
Now that the final programme has been published I see that along with catching up with friends I’ve not seen since I was last in the UK in 2011, I get to check in with a few faces familiar from other global jewellery haunts, which I’m really looking forward to.
I’ve found as the annual SNAG conference has become much more familiar to me, my participation has become very business-like (thanks especially to the annual Editorial Advisory Committee meeting and always spending the preceding week finishing work for the trunk show.) I’m looking forward to being able to learn about a less-familiar jewellery culture while meeting some heroes and making a few new friends. And having some relaxing tours of local museums and such, while finally (fingers crossed!) experiencing summer in England.
If you’re on Instagram, expect to see supreme random-ness from Sheffield, London, Birmingham and Manchester 😉 And if you’re in those places, look out for me in my hat!
In Sydney? Get along to the Studio 20/17 SALE!
If you’re anywhere near Sydney get on over to Studio 2017 Project Space at Bridget is having a SALE! There are a lot of artists involved in this space, including the maestro Bridget herself, so it’s worth it just to check out what treasures she has stashed around the gallery.
Studio 20/17 are the longest supporters and continuous stockists of my work, so they have quite the back catalogue of pieces, many of which simply aren’t available anywhere else (and some that never were.) This really is your only chance to see and try these works, and to maybe pick yourself out a little something while it’s going for a song!
Open Tuesday to Saturday 11-5pm.
Phone 0411 808 274
Instagram @studio2017_project_space
Facebook www.facebook.com/studio2017projectspace
Sale closes July 1st!
Shadow puppets?!?
So about a billion years ago I made a two-fold piece, entitled The Raven and The Fishes, for the biennial Contemporary Australian Silver Award.
The pieces were my interpretation of the works of singer, musician and writer Nick Cave, with the Fishes work a meditation on the Nick Cave and the Bads Seeds song Breathless.
This weekend, thanks to evil genius Aran Galligan who has set up the night, built the stage and who will of course be performing her own piece, I’ll be debuting a familiar-looking shadow puppet performance in between acts at a punk rock gig here in shadowy Seattle.
If you’re in the area, consider yourself invited! We’ll be starting after the first band:
