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04.09.21 – Contemporary Wearables 2021
It was an honour to be selected amongst such a talented group of artists for the latest Contemporary Wearables event. Curated by Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, the Contemporary Wearables Biennial Jewellery Award and Exhibition recognises and promotes innovation in design and use of materials in the creation of contemporary jewellery and adornment.
The diverse and carefully curated installation is on display from 4 September – 31 October 2021. A copy of the opening night speeches and award announcements can be viewed here.
16.10.20 – Unleashed 2020: Emerging Craft & Design at ARTISAN
Unleashed 2020: Emerging Craft & Design brings together six exciting emerging Queensland artists whose practices take us beyond the worn and utilitarian to a more complex and challenging conceptual realm. What might appear initially to be an exhibition of a disparate range of fashion, textiles, jewellery and ceramics are, in fact, a challenging group of objects and installations that interrogate aesthetic form and function, notions of identity and diverse social issues. Look a little deeper, and you will find a refined exploration of visual art tropes, story-telling and performance, still life ceramics, contemporary heirlooms, costumeries, couture, and post-consumer waste. (Artisan 2020)
My work will be displayed alongside Queensland’s up-and-coming, emerging craft practitioners and designers including:
- Adam Anderson – Performance
- Peta Berghofer – Ceramics
- Minqi Gu – Jewellery
- Emily McGuire – Textiles
- Joash Teo – Fashion
The exhibition will be on display at ARTISAN from 16 October to 28 November 2020.
19.01.20 – Forge Forward Launch
I will be participating as a collective cast member for the launch of FORGE FORWARD on February 8. It is a multidisciplinary environment that feels like a gallery cross a boutique retail space located at 709 Ann St in Fortitude Valley. Each month FORGE FORWARD will host a collective of creatives, makers, artists and designers with ONE FEATURE ARTIST & up to TEN CREATIVES spanning across furniture, ceramics, accessories, leather work, apparel, fashion, objects, design, print and products.
04.12.19 – Monster Creative Design Event
In the coming weeks, I will be participating in a Pop Up Shop with Monster Creative at Vacant Assesmbly on December 19. The event runs each month featuring a different collection of quality artists, makers and designers. For the occasion, I have designed and made a production series of pieces inspired by my Contours Series.
22.11.19 – Glossy at NYC Jewelry Week
Glossy is now installed at NYC Jewelry Week from November 21 and through to November 24. All amazing works (including my feature pieces for the Contours Series) plus a few new additions will be displayed alongside the solo exhibition, 2 BE SEEN, by Emiko Oye.
A big thank you to all the J&SO alumni in New York at the time for sending me some snaps of the installation and my work.
25.10.19 – A Special Commisson
When your talented studio buddy from J&SO days, Teresa Lee, is getting hitched, you have got to make a pair of earrings based on the groovy couple. What fun it was to create this work and an honour to stand by you on your special day.
31.05.19 – Glossy Opens at JCK Las Vegas
Glossy is now installed at The Plumb Club Pavilion at JCK Las Vegas from May 31 and through to June 3. All amazing works (including my feature pieces for the Contours Series) are also available to purchase online at: https://shop.ombregallery.com/glossy/
Glossy features contemporary artist jewelers inspired by the images and messages presented in magazines, also known as ‘glossies,” for the paper on which they are printed. Glossies serve as a vital communication tool for messaging in the fashion industry. The fashion world is often influenced by celebrity, art, films, and literature. Artists are also responding to the material culture around them. From enamel and textiles to diamonds and zippers, the jewelry artists in this exhibition investigate the medium that captures the zeitgeist of our times.
The artists in this exhibition include: Mando Bartlett, Kate Cusack, Heather Guidero, Gabrielle Gould, Mia Hebib, Everett Hoffman, Mia Kwon, Margaux Lange, Maia Leppo, Tara Locklear, Heidi Lowe, Brooke Marks-Swanson, Jennifer Merchant, Jillian Moore, emiko oye, Louise Perrone, Denisa Piatti, Rachel Reichert, Lyndsay Rice, Caitie Sellers, Inbar Shahak, Bridgette Shepherd, Olivia Shih, Olga Starostina, and Rachel Suzanne Smith.
04.05.19 – Pop Up Shop at Grey Street Gallery
A few production pieces inspired by my Contours Series have been dropped off to Grey Street Gallery for a Pop Up Shop by the J&SO Collective. This event will run from may 8th – 18th to conincide with the BAD (Brisbane Art & Design) Festival.
09.02.19 – New Series In Progress
Inspired by a call out from Ombre Gallery, this new series of work, Contours, examines the integral function of the body as an object for personal and artistic expression. It highlights adornment as a symbolic act signifying the interconnected relationship between the body and self as well as the representation of the self to the other. This series will include a large range of earrings and brooches – stay tuned!
05.12.17 – Collective Origins Exhibition
After a prolonged absence, I am pleased to announce I have been back at the bench to create a new series of work for the Collective Origins exhibition. Collective Origins is an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the J&SO Collective. The exhibition highlights the lineage of the Collective and the success of current and past members.
23.09.15 – KORU5 Catalogue
Finally have my hands on some copies of the beautifully published KORU5 catalogue! The exhibition is now installed at Vaasa Art Hall and will be on display until November 29th.
07.08.15 – KORU5 Exhibition Opening at Imarta Art Museum
KORU5 – an international contemporary jewellery triennial – has opened at the Imarta Art Museum in Imarta, Finland. The KORU5 is organized by the Finnish Jewellery Art Association and brings together artists, lecturers, researchers and people with interest in contemporary jewellery through the exhibition, seminar and workshops.
My work will be on display here, along with 50 other talented art jewellers, until the 12th September before the exhibition tours to Vaasa Art Hall (3.10.2015 – 29.11.2015) and the Kuopio Art Museum (10.06.2015 – 10.09.2016).
07.07.15 – JMGA Conference 2015: edgesbordersgaps
Bags are packed and heading to the JMGA Conference, edgesbordersgaps! It is set to be an eventful few days full of informing presentations, networking events and exhibition openings.
In addition to attending the conference, I will be participating in Jewellery 101: A Forum BY Students FOR Students and my work will be exhibited in Graduate Metal XIV, a selected exhibition of recent graduates from Australia and New Zealand.
20.05.15 – Arts QLD Case Study
Arts QLD has now published case study exploring the internship I undertook with contemporary jewellery gallery and online forum Klimt02 in Barcelona, Spain. The case study notes my advice to other young artists about making the most of opportunities and how to approach galleries for representation.
02.01.15 – Published Blog of Spanish and Klimt02 Experience
I have now published a blog documenting my Klimt02 internship and prior Spanish adventures. Throughout the remainder of my internship, I will continue to update this blog with my experiences immersed in the international art jewellery community. Watch this space!
12.10.14 – AV17 Gallery Opening & Lithuanian National Television Report
The 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Metal Art – “METALLOphone: personally” has opened at the AV17 Gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania. The exhibition was also featured in a National Lithuanian Television report including commentary by Jurgita Ludavičienė (PhD) and installation shots of my work.
01.10.14 – JOYA Barcelona & Klimt02 Internship
With all the final elements of organization completed, I am excited to share that I am off to Barcelona next week for JOYA Barcelona and staying on in Spain until beginning my internship with Klimt02 Gallery! I will be blogging about my experience on my website.
20.09.14 – KORU5 Selection
I am thrilled to announce I have been selected to create a new series of work for KORU5 – an international contemporary jewellery triennial in Finland. These new works will be exhibited along with my series of pendants from the Grandparent Portrait Series. Of the 363 applicants from 44 different countries, 51 artists were selected to participate KORU5 exhibition.
19.09.14 – QCA: Awards and Recognition
My selection as a National Contemporary Jewellery Award Finalist was acknowledged by Griffith University in a feature article.
01.09.14 – 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Metal Art – “METALLOphone: personally”
My series of pendants, ‘Grandparent Portrait Series’, have been selected for the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Metal Art – “METALLOphone: personally”. The exhibition will be held at (AV17) Gallery in Vilnius, Lithuania and will tour to SamogitiArt, Telšiai. This exhibition has been recognised in a Klimt02 article.
14.08.14 – National Contemporary Jewellery Award Finalist
My series of brooches, ‘Grandparent Portrait Series’, have been selected as a finalist in the 2014 National Contemporary Jewellery Award. The exhibition of finalists will be held at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery and will tour to Courtesy of the Artist, Sydney and Sturt Contemporary Craft and Design, Mittagong.
05.06.14 – Spectacle Exhibition
I participated in a group exhibition of contemporary jewellers, both emerging and established, at the Contemporary Artisans Collective in Brisbane. The exhibition, Spectacle, had gallery wall bursting with resin busts and limbs adorned in contemporary jewellery.
28.11.13 – Fine Art Graduate Exhibitions
My fellow fine Art graduates and I celebrated our last night as students at the Fine Art Graduate Exhibition: LiMEN. The culmination of work made during our final year at the Queensland College of Art can be seen in the online copy of LiMEN catalogue. Running in conjunction with LiMEN, the Griffith University Art Gallery exhibited the selected finalist for the GAS: Graduate Art Show and the Survey Co. Art Award. I was honoured to have my ‘Grandparent Portrait Series‘ included in the exhibition and was one of only two jewellers to make the selection.
As part of the special industry preview, the J&SO graduates hosted a J&SO Industry Night with a range of awards sponsored by generous industry sponsors. Dr Campbell Gray, Director of the University Queensland Art Museum judged the awards and my ‘Grandparent Portrait Series‘ was presented with the Outstanding Series of Work award sponsored by A & E Metal.
04.07.13 – NOW: the starts of a conversation Exhibitions
As a satellite exhibition for the Participation + Exchange, the 15th Biennial Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia Conference, the final year students from the Queensland College of Art began a jewellery dialogue with final year students from Modern Handicraft and Art Department in Shandong, China. The exhibition, NOW: the start of a conversation, is on display in the Library and Webb Building entry cabinets at QCA until the end of August before being shipped off to China.
23.12.11 – POP Gallery Exhibition
My work was featured in a group exhibition of sculptors, printmakers and jewellers at the POP Gallery in Woolloongabba, Brisbane. The J&SO cabinet included some lovely work by fellow students at QCA, including Renata Fojitkova, Clare Poppi and Dave Gibbon, and included selected works from my Organism Series.
25.11.11 – Moustache Magazine
Selected works from the Griffith Jewellery Collective, including five rings from my Canyon Series, were featured in the online blog of Moustache Magazine.
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