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