JEMPOSIUM: JEWELLERY OR WHAT

http://www.jemposium.co.nz

International Jewellery Symposium: 10 - 13 February 2012
Whitireia NZ Performance Centre, 25 Vivian St, Wellington

Premiere opening followed by two days of themed presentations, panel-led discussion, PechaKucha 20x20, Masterclass sessions and Pin Swap

Speckers
Atelier Ted Noten (artist, Netherlands)
Manon van Kouswijk, (artist, Netherlands/Australia)
Karl Fritsch (artist, Germany/New Zealand)
Fabrizio Tridenti (artist, Italy)
Liesbeth den Besten (art historian, Netherlands)

Topics
Ideas into materials; Materials into ideas; Distribution

Exhibitions;
PHOTOSPACE
1st floor, 37 Courtenay Place
Wanna Swap your ring – Atelier Ted Noten
30th January – 15th February
You are invited to exchange your ring for a pink Mis Piggy ring

Night’s Plutonian Shore – Julia deVille
7th –15th February

THISTLE HALL
293 Cuba Street, Te Aro
Situational Personalities – Sarah Walker-Holt
Tuesday 7th February – Sunday 12th February 2012
Opening: Tuesday 7th February 2012, 6.00pm
http://www.thistlehall.org.nz/gallery.html

NEW ZEALAND ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
1 Queens Wharf
Selected Masterclass participants

TOI PONEKE
The Wellington Arts Centre, 61-63 Abel Smith Street
Handshake: Prentice & Prodigy
Thursday 9th February – Sunday 19th February 2012
Opening: Thursday 9th February 2012, 5.30 - 7.30pm
http://www.handshakejewellery.com/

HAMISH MCKAY
1st Floor, 39 Ghuznee Street
Der Tiefenglanz – Karl Fritsch, Gavin Hipkins
Thursday 9th February – Saturday 3rd March 2012
Opening: Thursday 9th February 2012, 6.00pm
http://www.hamishmckaygallery.com/

Supporting Exhibitions;
WELLINGTON
BARTLEY + COMPANY ART
56a Ghuznee Street
Three jewelers: Lisa Walker, Areta Wilkinson & Sofia Tekela-Smith
Tuesday 31st January- Saturday 25th February 2012
Opening: Sunday 12 February, 5.30 - 7.30pm
http://www.bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz/

BOWEN GALLERIES
39 Ghuznee Street
Swatch – Warwick Freeman window exhibition
Friday 10th February- Friday 24th February 2012
‘Room 22’- Warwick Freeman
Monday 20th February- Saturday 10th March 2012
http://www.bowengalleries.co.nz/

MUSEUM OF WELLINGTON CITY & SEA
Queens Wharf, 3 Jervois Quayn
Host a Brooch – Jacqui Chan
Medals lecture
Telling Tales
http://www.museumswellington.org.nz/

{SUITE} GALLERY
108 Oriental Parade
Sugar High – Cat Auburn
Wednesday 8th February – Saturday 25th February 2012
Opening: Wednesday 8th February 2012, 7.00pm
Telling Tales
http://www.suite.co.nz/

AVID GALLERY
48 Victoria Street
Colonial Goose – Pauline Bern
Saturday 4th February - Wednesday 15th February, 2012

QUOIL
49 Willis Street
Members exhibition*
http://www.quoil.co.nz/

THE MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA
55 Cable Street, Wellington
Collecting Contemporary
9 June 2011 – June 2012
www.tepapa.govt.nz/collectingcontemporary

THE DOWSE
45 Laings Rd, Lower Hutt
Cluster, collection exhibition
Saturday 11th February – Sunday 13th May 2012
http://www.dowse.org.nz/

PATAKA MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE
17 Parumoana Street, Porirua
Metadecorative – Mary Curtis
Saturday 28th January – Sunday 26th February 2012
http://www.pataka.org.nz/

AUCKLAND
FINGERS
2 Kitchener Street, Auckland (opposite Auckland Art Gallery)
Jewelism
Tuesday 7th February-Friday 24th February 2012
Opening: Tuesday 7th February 2012 5:30-7.00pm
http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibition_program.htm

OBJECTSPACE
8 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby, Auckland
Manon van Kouswijk and Fabrizio Tridenti and Atelier Ted Noten
Wednesday 8th February – Saturday 10th March 2012
Opening: Wednesday 8th February 2012, 5.30pm- 8.00pm: Floor talk by Manon van Kouswijk and Fabrizio Trident
http://www.objectspace.org.nz/

THE PAH HOMESTEAD, TSB BANK WALLACE ARTS CENTRE
72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough
RETROSPECT
The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre Wednesday 1st February –Sunday 15th April 2012 and Wallace Gallery Morrinsville Thursday 19th April – Sunday 10th June 2012
Opening: Tuesday 31st January 2012, 6.00pm
http://www.tsbbankwallaceartscentre.org.nz/

MASTERWORKS
77 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
JEMposium Reflections
Monday 20th February- Saturday 10th March 2012
http://www.masterworksgallery.com/

CHRISTCHURCH
THE NATIONAL
158 High St, Christchurch
Octavia Cook
The Possession Obsession of Cocoa Vitako
Friday 17th February – Thursday 8th March 2012
Opening: Friday 17th February, 5.30pm

Thistle Hall Gallery

Situational Personalities
10.00am - 6.00pm Tuesday 7th - Sunday12th Febraury.
OPENING: 6.00 Tuesday 7 February.

Thistle Hall
CNR CUBA & ARTHUR STREETS
WELLINGTON
PH 3843088


OFFICE@THISTLEHALL.ORG.NZ.
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In conjunction with JEMposium, Situation Personalities is an exhibition of Sarah’s graduate work from 2010. http://www.jemposium.co.nz/

Implement Detachment

OBJECTive ART AWARDS 2011

29 October -2 December 2011
Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
Corner Orly Avenue & Bader Drive, Auckland

In conversation
Talk by Deborah Crowe, Mary-Louise Browne and James Pinker
Saturday 19th November 2pm

“Kia tapu, Kia hua, Kia puawai.
To grow, to prosper, to sustain”

This quote from Princess Te Puea Herangi was the theme for this year’s entry.

#5863, 2011, neckware

By constructing a piece of Neckware that is driven by wanting to bewilder where it sits in time and space, I dissect my materials and shift them from their everyday, banal existence as domestic implements into a contemporary jewellery context. #5863 has grown and prospered into a single object that is decorative while still suggesting a mechanistic function and fit. The compositional process is also sustained through the objects ability to be reconfigured by the wearer.

This is a continued area of investigation for me this year and #5863 is presented beautifully in a glass case on its own, adding to its strong sense of presence. Objective is well worth the visit this year; the organisers have put together a strong exhibit of highly refined art works, of which I have to say there is a very strong presence of jewellers.

My congratulation goes out warmly to Raewyn Walsh for her winning piece Vessel 2011. This I felt was a well deserved win that was very fitting to Raewyn’s practice. As a contemporary jeweller, Raewyn’s strengths stretch out in her experimentation with vessels especially the teapot.

I would also like to congradulate Kvetoslava Sekanova (2nd) for White Book and Jasmine Watson (3rd) for Subsequence who are both currently exhibiting along side me in the Fingers group show

Fingers Group Show 2011

Fingers Annual Group Show October 31st - November 11th 2011
2 KITCHENER ST / CNR KHARTOUM PLACE
AUCKLAND CENTRAL
OPENING HOURS
MON - FRI 10AM - 5.30PM
SAT & SUN 11AM - 4.30PM

Current (orange) 2011, Neckpiece

Current (orange) 2011, back detail

Pinch Me 2011, Neckware

Rocket 2011, Button hole Brooch

Winner of the New Zealand Jewellery Show 2011

See winning images;
http://www.jewelleryshow.co.nz/media-1

Media Release: 09 September 2011

Diamonds and Twine
Opposites attract judges eyes at the New Zealand Jewellery Show Design Awards.
You wouldn’t find two more polar opposite pieces: a fine jewellery flower ring that transforms at the flick of a hidden mechanism into a pendant studded with almost $30,000 worth of sapphires and diamonds, and a contemporary pendant made using wooden kitchen utensils, firewood, garden twine and nuts and bolts, but both of them were winners at the New Zealand Jewellery Show Design Awards last night.
WINNER – contemporary: Sarah Walker-Holt for: ‘Timekeeping’.
The contemporary judges were looking for a piece with x-factor and found it in Timekeeping. “We were looking for individualism confidently expresses through media, that is – a unique piece that has conceptual and aesthetic resolve.” Timekeeping excited the judges with the way in which Walker-Holt treated the recycled household materials the same way precious metals and stones are treated in the best of fine jewellery.
“The solutions Walker-Holt used to construct her piece are not accidental, but in fact are the result of careful decision making. The aesthetic seems to come out of a DIY vernacular, and assemblage of parts reflects a resourceful keen eye and hand.”
Walker-Holt explains the inspiration behind Timekeeping “The worn and used aesthetic I create is reflective of my ethics. I want value to ultimately lie in an objects sense of endurance through its patina and though time honoured craft techniques.”

Judges; Karl Fritsch and Areta Wilkinson

2011 Graduating Students Award

1 August to 12 August 2011

Thanks to all those who came to the opening on Monday night, it is nice to know I am well supported by friends, peers and lecturers especially Fran Allison and Mary Curtis. It was also great to meet and catch up with the other graduates; Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova, Jessica Winchcombe and yang Zhang.

Check out the awesome images courtesy of Fingers;
http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibition_program.htm