{"id":5368,"date":"2013-06-28T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2013-06-28T03:05:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:05:26","slug":"jmga-2013-participation-and-exchange-toowoomba-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5368","title":{"rendered":"JMGA 2013 Participation and Exchange &#8211; Toowoomba Road Trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good opportunity for some pre-conference exchange. The organisers of the conference have <a title=\"Participation and Exchange - blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.participationandexchange.com\/1\/post\/2013\/06\/great-opportunity-to-view-the-toowoomba-regional-gallery-collection-of-contemporary-jewellery.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">just posted on their blog<\/a> that &#8220;We have been offered a great opportunity to view the collection of acquired works from the Biennial Contemporary Wearables Exhibition, held at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.&#8221; So it&#8217;s off to Toowoomba to check out the collection in its natural habitat! I know (part of?) the collection toured a little while ago, though it never came past Melbourne which was a huge shame, so I for one never got to see it.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"TRAG website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au\/facilities-and-recreation\/theatres-and-galleries\/toowoomba-regional-art-gallery\/collections\/1981-the-city-collection\" target=\"_blank\">Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery<\/a> were the first public collection to purchase one of my works (you can see an image of the piece, <em>Marian&#8217;s compact &#8211; radial pattern<\/em> through the first link above) as a part of the biennial competition a few years ago. They acquire the winners of the competition as well as other pieces (like mine) each time the competition is held, and they have a few other older (as in 100 years or so older) pieces of significance. Thanks to their steady collecting of &#8216;<a title=\"Gallery of past winners\" href=\"http:\/\/twmba.net\/~tgallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wearables<\/a>&#8216; winners since 1989, they have gradually collected works by a big bunch of Australian jewellers. If you&#8217;re going to be in town (unfortunately I arrive in Brisbane later that day so I&#8217;m going to miss it) I would strongly urge you to go check it out if you haven&#8217;t already. It&#8217;s our history!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to BrisVegas for the JMGA conference? Go see the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery&#8217;s collection of jewellery works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,111,58,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dialogue","category-exhibition","category-galleries-2","category-jewellery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}