Christine Matthias portrait Susan Cummins: Christine, please tell the story of your background and how you knew you wanted to make jewelry. Christine Matthias: It was only after completing a commercial apprenticeship and studying interior design in Hanover that I took up my studies at Burg Giebichenstein´s jewelry department. During my studies in Hanover, I
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Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, portrait Susan Cummins: How did you discover you wanted to make jewelry? Keri-Mei Zagrobelna: I am not sure if I discovered that I wanted to be a jeweler, or if jewelry discovered me. Growing up in an environment of artifact, object, and art, it seemed normal that I should naturally fall into it.
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Pin is fourth in collectible series designed by respected art jewelers Mill Valley, CA, December 26, 2013—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the creation, study, and appreciation of art jewelry, announced that distinguished Swiss jewelry artist David Bielander has created the group’s 2014 limited-edition membership pin. The brooch, Baby Slug, is the fourth design in
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Art Jewelry Forum’s Trip to Amsterdam, the World’s Heart of Contemporary Art Jewelry October 10–14, 2013 Thursday, October 10 Marjan Boot and Dirk Jan Biemond, Rijksmuseum entrance hall, photo: Sofia Silfverstolpe Friday, October 11 After 10 years of renovation, the newly re-opened Rijksmuseum has a new and extended jewelry department. The author and collector
Noon Passama is a jeweler who truly reaches outside the boundaries of contemporary jewelry by working with other artists, photographers, and fashion designers. In Portraits, her current show at Galerie Ra, she works with the photography team called Severafrahm, consisting of Mirka Laura Severa and Michael Frahm. It is interesting to hear her thinking on
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Platina gallery’s Sofia Björkman took advantage of the recent publication Contemporary Swedish Art Jewellery by Inger Wästberg to present an exhibition of pieces featured by the artists mentioned in the book. Many of these artists she already shows, and in some cases, she got to pull pieces out of the drawers to put them together
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TWEEX 2 exhibition, photo: Xavier Ury Susan Cummins: How does TWEEX 2 expand on the theme of the transmission of knowledge from the teacher to the student in the jewelry programs in Belgium, which you began with TWEEX 1? Françoise Vanderauwera: Using the theme of transmission, the whole TWEEX project contributes to a better understanding
Donald Friedlich, Aqua Series Brooch, 2013, glass, 22-karat gold, 18-karat gold, 14-karat gold, 57 x 60.3 x 9.5 mm, photo: Larry Sanders Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you become interested in making jewelry? Donald Friedlich: In my early 20s, I met a jeweler while ski bumming in Stowe, Vermont. Up
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Laura Deakin, Our Planet on Tuesday the 14th August 2012, 2012, necklace, polyester resin, newspaper pigment, silver, 660 mm, photo: artist Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you become a jeweler? Laura Deakin: My parents have always been a huge influence in my life. My dad is an illustrator and retired
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Marie-Louise Kristensen portrait, photo: Jeanette Land Schou Susan Cummins: Please describe your project called BANGKO{K}LLECTION. Why did you choose Bangkok? Marie-Louise Kristensen: Well it’s more like Bangkok chose me. In 2011, a while after I finished working on CPH:DUCKS (a solo exhibition at Goldfingers in Copenhagen), I got in contact with Atty, the director of
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Agathe Saint-Girons, Révolution ring, 2005, pink gold, moonstones, 580 mm, photo: Elsa Vanier Missy Graff: What is the Circuits Bijoux, and who organized it? Elsa Vanier: Circuits Bijoux is presented by Ateliers d’Art de France in partnership with Les Arts Decoratifs Museum and the Un Bijou à l’Autre Association. Circuits Bijoux will be presenting around
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Joyce Scott, photo: John Dean Susan Cummins: Joyce, when did you first know you were going to be an artist? Joyce Scott: In vitro. I was born with one of the best-decorated placenta. I know you have repeated the story of your mother and her influence on you many times, but would you mind repeating
