Subliminal Infiltrations show at Masterworks

The results of infiltrations thus far is now on show at Masterworks Gallery until Feb 2011.
The documentation of the whole project can be found here:  http://subliminalinfiltrations.blogspot.com/


A Brief and Un-concise History 

By happy coincidence, three Auckland Jewellery Geeks (yes, we are trying to think of a better name) wore Cath Dearsley felty brooches to the Fingers Contemporary Jewellery exhibition opening on 04 August 2010 featuring new work by Nadene Carr (MSVA), Kristin Toller (Unitec), and Debbie Adamson (Otago Polytechnic). 

The Geeks had been planing to do some guerilla actions at openings for a while but had not yet found a suitable behaviour to get ourselves out there and noticed without looking like complete dorks. Being smart and perceptive like we are, we quickly realised the potential of this three Cath Dearsley accidental happening and set about creating a cunning plan to Subliminalli Infiltrate the Auckland Contemporary Jewellery and Art scene in the four months leading up to our pencilled in THINKspace show. 

The plan: keep it simple,showcase on Geek's work at each opening leading up to the THINKspace, take photo documentation, and keep simple notes on the interactions as we went along. 

The Geeks are: Kristin D'Agostino, Raewyn Walsh, Cath Dearsley, Nadene Carr, Lynsay Raine, Gillian Deery, and Sharon Fitness. We are very grateful to the satellite geeks who helped us with this project, especially Joey, Renee Lilian, and Sinead and all the others who wanted to play in our sandpit. 

Nava Lubelski : more textile painting boundary slurring

Following the breadcrumb trail from Bad at Sports >>>to the The Present Group. I found this great interview with textile artist and innovative maker, Nava Lubelski on the Present group blog.  I love her angle on deconstruction and mending.

Her work, dedication to craftsmanship and ability to step outside of craft and peak around the corners of what is possible is really knocking my socks off.

maps, quilts, painting and craftsmanship

I have been swerving towards textiles lately and seeing this lovely quilt by Ian Hundley

on Alabama Chanin made my heart jump.  I love the work in these peices.

How Might One Live? #1: The Present Group

I am on a Deleuze kick at the moment and am loving the question he poses.... 'how might one live?' as applied to an art practice or the movement of art in society.

The Present Group : an art subscription service Exploring new ways to fund and distribute arist projects.  I'd say this is answering the Deleuze question in a very innovative way.  I found the The Present Group via an interview on Bad at Sports, and think they are just the bees knees.  TThis sbuscription based art distribution group is located in San Francisco.  The way it works is for 150 dollars a year you recieve 4 art works.  Money is given to the artist to produce the subscribed number of works and then they are distributed.  They are a true inspiration, so simple and yet so brilliant!

Artists apply to be involved. And with each release there is a critical essay that accompanies the work.

Check out their blog for more infomation.

Bad at Sports treats

Contemporary art talk.  These weekly pod casts are just about the best thing a girl can ask to listen to during her 9-5 stint.  They are a ray of sunshine straight from the heart of the good old Midwest.  Thank you Bad at Sports! 

Not only is there a weekly podcast, there is a blog and an amazing archive.

There is so much to listen to, but here are two of my favourites.

Episode 267: James Elkins and the Stone Summer Theory Institute

Episode 243: The Present Group

The Box Project

Come enjoy the unique works made by eighteen contemporary jewellers from Australia and New Zealand using unexpected materials they received in a mysterious brown box. An unusual ear plug neckpiece, shuttlecock earrings and brooches sprouting living grass adorn Gaffa Gallery’s walls amongst many other delightful pieces.

Curator Jasmine Matus conceptually revisits her childhood busy box, a box full of collected items brought out on rainy afternoons to inspire the making of imaginative objects. Twenty years later, The Box Project involves professional jewellers using complex materials and techniques to bring to life this intriguing past.


‘Working with a limited palette of things you would never choose yourself is quite a challenge but sometimes the best things come from foreign places’ ⎯ Sharon Fitness

theboxproject.tumblr.com

Triangular Design Manifesto

While I don't use the word designer to describe myself, I like this, see no.2
Thank you Conceptual Devices

00_ Design should not be based on formal principles – but always on an idea of society.
01_ Designed forms represent possible social orders and a lot of their contradictions.
02_ Design is everything. Anything could be designed. Everyone is a designer.
03_ Design allows social innovations. Often it is not made by designers.
04_ Design has not scale. It could be small and have great impact.
05_ Design is not an innocent practice. Designers are wicked.
06_ Design should engage people and interact with them.
07_ Design is an interdisciplinary applied science.
08_ Design produces visual consciousness.
09_ Design is a triangular manifesto.
10_ Design makes you smile.
11_ This is the top.
12_ Enjoy!

kicked into touch

Phew.  Back from the whirlwind of a Sydney visit, full of wonderful people and galleries.  Overall we were really happy with the show and its reception. 

It is hard to believe that it is in it's final days today.

The show might be coming to an end, but Raewyn Walsh has been keeping the blog evolving with featured artists: whose pictures are all remarkably indicative of their personalities.

We have had some good attention from the blog community:

melbourne jeweller

bijou 

kit and caboodle

strobed

and we even subliminally infiltrated our own show: subliminal infiltration 

Lisa Walker at Objectspace

Objectspace window will host Lisa Walker 6 November - 15 December 2010

Here is how Objectspace is billing the show:

This installation presents a selection of recent neck pieces by Lisa Walker, each of which utilises a range of materials from New Zealand collected by Walker when she returned home from Munich last December after 14 years abroad. The construction of the neck pieces resembles that of contemporary Polynesian lei, where the designs frequently draw upon found materials, both natural and manufactured, in 
bright colours and textures.

Announcing Touch, Pause, Engage

Touch, Pause, Engage is an introductory snapshot of contemporary jewellery from Aotearoa, New Zealand for the Australian community.  Known primarily as the call the referee shouts before two rugby teams lock into a scrum, in this context Touch, Pause, Engage becomes a call to look fully and interact with jewellery as you see it.

And so, this innovative jewellery showcase is designed to reset the trans-Tasman rivalry between our rugby-loving brothers and sisters, and to build new jewellery relationships. The show will be hung at the Keeper Gallery, at the Gaffa Art Complex in Sydney, and will run from 21 October – 2 November 2010.  Opening night, October 21st will also mark the release of an accompanying publication.

The initiative of Kristin D’Agostino and Raewyn Walsh, Touch, Pause, Engage, has invited a diverse team of fifteen New Zealand jewellers to submit inventive and inspired works.  Although many of the makers’ practices focus on different issues and are expressed in a wide range of forms, the side is fit and game ready.  The roster is comprised of talented individuals with varying skills, strengths, and experience but who all make a target of pushing the experimental aspects of their jewellery practice.

-Kristin and Raewyn

Jewellery events in Auckland

 

Back in Auckland just in the nick of time and ready to jump back into the buslting jewellery world. 

Craig McIntosh @Fingers - October 4th

Amanda Game @Objectspace lecture series - October 6th

Cheryl Sills and Mia Straka  @ Royal - October 8th

Artist Alliance Workshop Day - October 9th

Peter Deckers and Nadene Carr @ Masteworks - October 13th

Broach of the Month Club/Masterworks Dinner  - October 13th

Peter Deckers Floor Talk @ Masteworks - October 14th

I've got a mild fascination for collectors

This song and youtube video say it all. 
your girlfriend says its time to sell,
but everything fits so well.

submliminal infiltrations

I have a sneaky feeling Auckland jewellery is taking an interesting turn.  This blog: subliminal infiltration catalogs the adventures of guerrilla jewellery in a guerrilla world.

Here is how the subliminal infiltrations work as per the blog:

 A brief and unconcise history:
By happy coincidence, 3 auckland jewellery Geeks (yes we are trying to think of a better name) wore Cath Dearsley felty brooches to the Fingers Contemporary Jewellery exhibition opening on 04 August 2010 featuring new graduate work by Nadene Carr (MSVA), Kristin Toller (Unitec) and Debbie Adamson (Otago Polytechnic).
Now, the Geeks have been planning to do some guerilla actions at openings for a while but hadnt yet found a suitable behaivour to get ourselves out there and noticed without looking like complete fools.
Being smart and perceptive like we are, we quickly realised the potential of this 3 Cath Dearsley accidental happening and set about creating a cunning plan to subliminally infiltrate the Auckland Contemporary Jewellery and Art scene in the four months leading up to our pencilled in THINKspace show at Masterworks Gallery opening on 04 December 2010.
The plan: keep it simple, showcase one Geek's work at each opening leading up to the THINKspace, taking photo documentation and keeping notes on comments and feelings as we go along.


The Geeks are: Kristin D'Agostino, Raewyn Walsh, Cath Dearsley, Nadene Carr, Lynsay Raine, Gillian Deery and Sharon Fitness.

Art News NZ - Spring 2010

Bold, new and curious forms:

Kristin D’Agostino and Craig Foltz trace the new wave of jewellery and its embrace of sculpture

First Edition ~ 10 emerging jewellers ~ the National

10 emerging jewellers group show

Now on at the National, 158 High St. Christchurch

Nadene Carr

Suni Gibson

Gillian Deery

Lynsay Raine

Raewyn Walsh

Anne Baynham

Kristin D'Agostino

Apologies to Tara Brady and Cath Dearsley whose pictures didn't turn out.

View from the street

Time for a Scavenger Hunt!!

A fungal bloom hits Christchurch.
As part of the First Editions show, I thought I would sprinkle some love throughout Christchurch and subconsciously draw the public in.  I am very excited about the idea that jewellery can link people to a place and an experience.  So in the cold and early hours of the morning, Lynsay Raine and I set out to create a viral, fungal bloom around town.
Headquarters:

We put between 30 and 40 blossoms around town, how many can you find?  
They are all in places worth travelling to.

Raewyn Walsh - jewellery box last day

photo courtesy of Raewyn Walsh

Raewyn Walsh is in the Masterworks jewllery box this month.  She taken a nice step from her dark stacked objects into colour.  She is still investigating the silver tea service and intervening with its reading and function, but the subtle introduction of colour adds an exciting new aspect. Here is how Raewyn describes the work:

photo courtesy of Raewyn Walsh

I am still interested in the vessel, especially the silver tea service, and this time I have set my sights on the vessel accoutrements; those parts that are added on but which also define the use and function of said vessel. Here the teapot spout is recast as a brooch and spoon handles become pendants that are long enough to be held.

The National - First Editions Tuesday July 6th, CHC

The National is very pleased to present "First Editions",  an exhibition of 10 selected Emerging Jewellers:

Anne Baynham
Tara Brady
Nadine Carr
Kristin D'Agostino
Cath Dearsley
Gillian Deery

Suni Gibson
Lynsay Raine
Robyn Singh
Raewyn Walsh

6 of the jewellers will be at the Opening so we would love you to join us!

 

Meet the artists and preview the work

Tuesday 6th July,  from 5pm

The New Zealand Jewellery Show - Regal Casting Awards

The results are up for the finalists.  This year seems to be an Auckland sweep. Congratulations to Gillian Deery, Nadene Carr, Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova.  I am honored to be a member of this gang.

I submitted this piece after working and working on a planned masterpiece... that refused to let itself come into being.  I had been twiddling away on this piece (pictured) between melt downs on version A, B and C of afore mentioned failed masterpiece.  All the good stuff happens when you are not trying.  From the sound of it Nadene and Gillian also had similar, last minute changes of heart when it came to the work that they eventually entered.  I think that judge, Lisa Walker, might have sniffed out the blah-fuck moments.

http://www.jewelleryshow.co.nz/2010-regal-castings-jewellery-awards-finalists

"Topography of Metal" Now accepting entries from the sunny shores of Lake Erie

There is a call for entries for a jewellery show in my hometown, and I thought I would pass along the good word. 

Now accepting entries for "Topography of Metal"
at Tap Studios/Gallery M in Cleveland, OH
Oct. 150 Nov. 19, 2010
Curated by Susan Skoczen

Topography of Metal is an exhibition to investigate and discover jewelry and metal artists who explore the manipulation of the surface of metal. This manipulation can be either purely associated with alteration of the metal and/or the addition or use of other non-traditional materials

Gallery: Tap Studios / Gallery M is a unique studio and exhibition space dedicated to the creation and promotion of art jewelry. We offer a regular program of exhibitions featuring national and international artists in an eclectic setting based in Cleveland’s Asia Town neighborhood. A program of classes and workshops is scheduled on an on-going bases. www.tapstudios.com

Curator: Susan Skoczen is a studio jeweler in Cleveland, OH. Her work has been shown in San Francisco, Massachusettes. Texas and New York. She also teaches jewelry/metalsmithingaroundtheClevelandarea.Inaddition to making and showing her own work, she has been a curator and.or juror for such shows as Cain Park Arts Festival in Cleveland Hts, OH, “In Between” and “After Hours” show at The Reinberger Galleries, The Cleveland Institute of Art, was Chair of the SNAG student show, “On the Verge”. www.susanskoczen.com

Eligibility: This exhibition is open to all artists over the age of 18. All entries must be original, completed within the last three years and accurately be represented in jpeg images. Works not meeting these criteria will not be exhibited. Work not to exceed 24” x 24” x 24”

Theme: “Topography of Metal” is an exhibition to investigate and discover jewelry and metal artists who explore the manipulation of the surface of metal. This manipulation can be either purely associated with alteration of the metal and/or the addition or use of other non-traditional materials.
Format: All entries will be juried from high-resolution (300 dpi) jpeg digital images on CD. Maximum 3 pieces, each with a detail image, if necessary.

more info:
  http://www.klimt02.net/showcase/index.php?item_id=18615

ENTRIES DUE: July 9, 2010
Notification of Artists: Sept. 17
Shipping/Delivery of Accepted Work: Oct. 1-6
Exhibition Dates: Oct. 15- Nov. 19
Opening Reception: Oct. 15, 6-9pm R
Return of Work: Nov. 20-24

Lineage - Raewyn Walsh

Raewyn Walsh introduces her new work at Masterworks, June 9th.  6pm.  

Rumour has it, the show is a bit familiar and a little new.  

We are all very excited to see how her work has progressed.

re:production project

Here is a sneak peak of one of the photos that I have sent off to the re:production exhibition.  

The show is curated by Zoe Brand at the Keeper Gallery @ gaffa in Syndey.  This is how Zoe describes the project.  By removing the ‘end product’ of a work and displaying only the documentation in the form of a series of images, the viewer is given a different perspective from which to understand further the workings of contemporary jewellery practice. 

The show is supported by a lovely blog so that all of the overseas jewellers can appreciate the show. 
There are a few spots still available if other makers are interested in participating.

Exhibition Dates: 3rd June - 29th June 2010, blog live now.

a selection of magpie treasures

DIY Magpie Workshop Walking Tour of Taupo part 2

six for gold

Drew's Goldsmith's

Joanna Campbell's ribbon necklace

seven for secrets not to be told

Taupo's question mark

Octavia Cook's brooch

eight for a wish

wishing well

Matthew McIntyre Wilson's coin brooches

nine for a kiss

rose garden

Pauline Bern's Mend brooches

ten for a bird not to be missed

Magpie

Lisa Walker talk 2pm

At this point we laid out the collections and started making, making, making.