AJF just announced this year’s five 2018 Artist Award finalists: Karin Roy Andersson, Bifei Cao, Corrina Goutos, Aurélie Guillaume, and Jelizaveta Suska. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. For this, the 16th annual AJF Artist Award, the jurors were Swedish collector Inger Wästberg, Australian curator Su san Cohn, and American […]
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April Wood, Brooch, 2017, repurposed costume jewelry, photo: Erica Bello Our final Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant finalist interview is with Susie Ganch. Susie, who works in Richmond, Virginia, in the US, is an educator, maker, and passionate advocate for raising awareness about the ongoing need for sustainability of material sourcing, use, and consumption in
Kristen Baird, the winner of the 2017 Halstead Grant, hails from Savannah, Georgia. Her Southern upbringing and immersion in nature led to the organic flow in her jewelry collection, which incorporates ethically sourced gemstones and silver reticulation techniques. Winning the Halstead Grant helped Baird launch her new fine jewelry collection, a long-awaited dream. In this
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Christoph Zellweger is an internationally renowned Swiss artist and professor currently based in the UK and in Switzerland. Born into a family of goldsmiths and fifth-generation jewelry shop owners, Zellweger found his way to interdisciplinary, experimental jewelry in London and continues to create work informed by material research, technological innovations, and challenging processes. Zellweger’s works
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Lauren Kalman, Devices for Filling a Void…, 2015, inkjet print, gold-plated electroformed copper, earthenware, 50.8 x 40.6 cm and 10.2 x 10.2 x 15.2 cm, photo: courtesy of the artist Lauren Kalman, a visual artist and educator based in Detroit, is celebrated for her innovative work, which lies at the juncture of art jewelry and
Anya Kivarkis, Marcus Gunther Sketch, c. 1711, 2007, brooch, silver, white gold, auto paint, 82.5 x 63.5 x 25.4 mm, photo: Kevin Sprague Anya Kirvakis works with appropriated source images, from Baroque sketches to modern photographs. Her jewelry captures, deconstructs and re-creates glamour pieces as representations of representations, with all their invocation of yearning social
Lynn Batchelder, A Line in Space, 2017, necklace, electroformed copper, silver, 406 x 61 x 38 mm, photo: artist A lot has happened in the nearly two years since Lynn Batchelder received the 2016 AJF Artist Award. Since that time, she has been busy with exhibitions, residencies, and growing her career as an artist and
Kristin Beeler, promotional image, Archive of Rag and Bone, photo: artist Kristin Beeler, an illustrious American artist in the contemporary jewelry field, was one of the finalists for the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. Currently a professor and program head at Long Beach City College, Kristin examines the weight of beauty and memory through contrasting
Karin Seufert, Untitled, 2016, necklace, PVC, thread, 90 x 110 x 27 mm (without the thread), photo: artist Karin Seufert is a German artist who received her training in the Netherlands and currently lives in Berlin. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions worldwide and has also included curatorial projects and lectures around the
Carina Shoshtary, In the Beginning there Was Red, 2017, headpiece, spruce bark, almond shells, graffiti, glass, paint, photo: Laurens Grigoleit I had the pleasure of interviewing Carina Shoshtary a year ago as one of the finalists for the AJF Artist Award. Fast forward a year and here we are again, this time with her as
Renate Heintze, Vogel und Stein, 1987, brooch, aluminum, cast, citrine quartz, stainless steel, 85 mm wide; and Mann und Kissen, 1987, aluminum, cast, turquoise, stainless steel, 70 mm wide, photos: Janos Stekovics This year at the International Handwerkskammer during Munich Jewelry Week, Renate Heintze was honored both as the Klassiker der Modern 2017 and with
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Sergey Jivetin, Spectacle. Chart Dividers, 2016, sculptural utensil, antique optical device, vintage navigational instrument, brass, 200 x 100 x 120 mm, food by John N. Novi, photo: artist Sergey Jivetin is recognized for masterfully manipulating unlikely materials—such as watch hands, eggshells, needles, and steel jeweler’s saw blades—into poetically articulated forms exhibiting a softness contradictory to
