Sarah Rhodes has been researching the role that practice plays in collaboration between designers and African grassroots craft producers, examining how craft and design practices can act as tools for communication and exchange. Exploring collaboration through making with two grassroots, Cape Town-based craft businesses—Imiso Ceramics and Kunye—a co-creation methodology for practice has developed, capitalizing on the differing […]
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In the wake of AJF Asia correspondent Anja Eichler’s profiles of Ubi Gallery and of professor Shannon Guo, we are happy to publish Eichler’s analysis of Professor Guo’s work. The author got access to the booming Chinese scene, and she is profiling for AJF those movers and shakers who are practically building it from the
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Helen Britton, Lucky Teeth, 2014, pendants, 750 gold (edition of 10), silver with gold (edition of 50), 20 x 150 x 5 mm, photo: artist Susan Cummins: What does Unheimlich, the title of your exhibition, mean? Helen Britton: Unheimlich can be loosely translated as “uncanny,” although the German meaning is more complex. When we look
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Hans Stofer, String Theory No.1, 2013, object, mixed media, 300 x 350 x 250 mm, photo: artist Susan Cummins: Since I have not seen the work in this show in person, can you please confirm that the objects you are using are the real thing, and therefore a shoe is the scale and material of
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Click on the first slide to enter the slideshow. 10 Most Pertinant Displays At Schmuck 2014, Munich
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Self-portrait, Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary, photo: artist Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you come to be a jeweler? Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary: It is quite probable that I would have become a musician if I did not have terrible stage fright. My father is an Iranian guitarist for classical and Spanish guitar. We had
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Click on the first slide to enter the slideshow. 10 Most Exciting Juxtapositions at Schmuck 2014, Munich
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Nina Sajet, Aardbeicollier, 2013, necklace, porcelain, nylon cord, pigment, 240 x 240 x 55 mm, photo: Jos van Beusekom Susan Cummins: Can you tell us the story of how you became interested in making jewelry? Nina Sajet: Jewelry has always been a part of my life. When I was a little girl, I loved to
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Sophie de Oliveira Barata, Stereo Leg, 2012, silicone, cast resin, studs, rhinestones chains, two old speakers; Viktoria Modesta wearing Stereo Leg, the Alternative Limb Project, 2012, photo: Rosemary Williams A new article format was launched in January 2014. This series, called “One on One,” consists of 500-word analyses of specific works that lend themselves to
Anya Kivarkis, Wynona Ryder, Lost Jewels, 3 views, 2008, 2010, ring, silver, 44.5 x 88.9 x 44.5 mm, photo: Kevin Sprague Susan Cummins: Can you give us a snapshot description of your background. Were you trained as a jeweler? Anya Kivarkis: I received an undergraduate degree in craft with a focus on jewelry and metalsmithing
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After 35-years experience working as an artist, I realize in preparing this talk that I can now be an anthropologist—a cultural and material anthropologist of my world of work. I have the opportunity to examine it, analyze it, and give it some sense that might not have been apparent at the time of making. I
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Rosemarie Jäger had been noticing how many couples there are in the jewelry world, and suddenly one day, she realized that it was a great idea for a series of shows. This one, with Beate Klockmann and Philip Sajet, is the first, and appropriately it is called Frühling or “Spring” and is the beginning of
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