March madness

I am pleased to share three wonderful shows that I have the honour of being selected for this March.

SCHMUCK 2013, Munich Germany.  It was a great honour to be selected for this year’s Schmuck exhibition curated by Bernhard Schobinger.   And thank you to Creative New Zealand for generously providing me with the opportunity to experience the event first hand.

“SCHMUCK is a global competition,” explained Dieter Dohr, CEO and president of GHM Gesellschaft fur Handwerksmessen mbH.  Schobinger of Richterswil in Switzerland is a trained goldsmith, and is one of today’s leading jewellery designers. His works are regarded as influential in determining new directions in style and the man himself is seen as an artist with a unique aesthetic sense who has broken new ground particularly in avant-garde jewellery design.  Not surprisingly, the works selected by him for SCHMUCK 2013, reflect this background, “they include a number of exciting new artist, but also many familiar names,” reveals Deiter Dohr.

-           From KLIMT02

Brooch: Chicken Vindaloo 2012
Kristin D'Agostino
photo by Studio La Gonda

Brooch:Rogan Josh 2012
Kristin D'Agostino
photo by Studio La Gonda

Handshake is an international jewellery project founded by New Zealand curator Peter Deckers. The results of this mentee/ mentor jewellery project have been exhibited regularly throughout Australasia over the last two years.  Work from my 2013 series, Milk and Honey will feature as part of the Handshake project at Handwerksmesse as part of Schmuck, Munich 6-12 March. The preview and catalogue launch will take place at 1.30pm on 6 March. Please find more information here. http://handshakejewellery.com/ 

Please also take the time watch this lovely video for the PLEDGEME drive on until the 6^th of March.
Thank you to my mentor, Judy Darragh for her enthusiasm and ongoing support

Retrospect curated by Jo Mears is showing until May at the fantastic New Dowse Museum in Lower Hutt.  It is one of my favourite museums in New Zealand and a great honour to have work shown there. Especially a show that is advertised like this: “An installation by Wellington artist Peter Deckers is featured alongside works by 20 other contemporary New Zealand jewellers. The exhibition features materials as diverse as iPod shuffles, take-away containers... and rabbit poo.” From The New Dowse Newsletter

Kristin D'Agostino: Take away series 2011

New Zealand jewellers and designers to feature at major European showcases

"With support from Creative New Zealand, seven New Zealand jewellers, designers and artists will be attending and exhibiting at the Talentè and Schmuck showcases, held annually as part of the renowned International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades.

At Talentè will be paper artist Fatemeh Aghahasan (Auckland), typographer Tamsin Fraser (Auckland), textile artist Briar Mark (Auckland) and wood artist Hayden Maunsell (Napier). Meanwhile at Schmuck will be Kristin D’Agostino from Auckland and Wellington-based husband and wife Karl Fritsch and Lisa Walker (the latter is independently funded).

In addition, Auckland-based jeweller Warwick Freeman will be at Schmuck where he has been invited to exhibit as a ‘modern classic’."

To read more click here!!!

engaging contemporary jewellery via Artfind blog

*image is of Woven Box neckpiece, 2012 by HANDSHAKE participant Gillian Deery

Artfind has a nice update on contemporary jewellery project in NZ.  It is even cooler that the Overview got a mention as well as Retrospect and Handshake.  3 out of 4 is not bad!

"One area in New Zealand’s creative landscape that I feel is extremely engaging, consistantly interesting and progressive, is the contemporary jewellery scene. We have some wonderfully talented makers producing jewellery at an international level, and there is as a strong sense of community with a number of great support iniatives around too. Check out a few interesting projects below:" read more

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We rang in the new year with a 3am earthquake in lovely New Plymouth.....  that heralds a year full of rock and roll if you ask me.

The lovely RETROSPECT show, curated by Jo Mears is heading toward The Dowse museum on Feb 1.  I love this museum and am over the moon to have my work there.

So, I am especially honored to be on the add for this one... read more about it here

http://dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Future-Exhibitions/Retrospect/

MakeShift: a Collaboration with Raewyn Walsh and Kristin D'Agostino

The Jewellers Guild of Greater Sandringham is pleased to present:

makeShift: a jewellery exhibition resulting from

a collaboration between Kristin D’Agostino and Raewyn Walsh. 

What happens when a workshop is shared and the craftspeople that inhabit the space are interested in reconnecting with the jewellery wearer, while maintaining individuality?  In Raewyn and Kristin’s experience, their ideas, materials and processes have crossed over at times and they have seen similarities appear in their work.  However, because of this and out of respect
of the other’s oeuvre, they have managed to restrict their individual practices so as not to encroach on each other’s jewellery ‘territory’.

Raeywn and Kristin have recently extended their collaborative endeavors into an experimental project that goes beyond the traditional view of craft as a display of virtuosity, to assert jewellery as a practice that actively connects with its audience.  They have used the collaboration to take their work to a new place, where shared artistic concepts, materials, and processes are privileged, and extend their individual practices at the same time. In doing so, their desire is to lift the restrictions they have imposed on themselves, both real and imagined.

Originally shown at Unitec: Snowhite gallery
Then a condensed version at masterworks gallery (pictured above).