Muriel Wilson RIP
Sad news of the death of Muriel last weekend (8 June 2018)
She was a Founder Member and for 15 years was Editor of our Findings magazine
Self-confessed "aspiring collector of contemporary jewellery and passionate devotee of beautiful things in all media", she will be much missed by many, especially her friends in ACJ.
Funeral Monday 2nd July, 11.00 am, St John's Wood Church, London NW8 7NE
ACJ Choice! Summer
The New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham hosts our 2018 members' selling show. Open 9 June to 21 July; PV 8 June 6.00 to 8.00pm, all welcome
New Designers 2018
Radical new thinking meets craftsmanship at New Designers this summer
Business Design Centre, London N1
Part 1: 27 – 30 June (Awards Preview 27 June)
Part 2: 4 – 07 July (Awards Preview 4 July)
More information available here
Special ticket offer of 20% off for ACJ members
49th Annual SNAG conference
Last month, ACJ Chair Terry Hunt and Director Anastasia Young attended the 49th annual Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Image: Kim Harrell, Terry Hunt, Anastasia Young, and Janice Derrick at the ACJ’s display at the Adorned Spaces exhibition.
Adorned Spaces 2018 ACJ display
Our display at the SNAG 2018 conference, the Adorned Spaces Salon
Jewellery: Wearable Glass London
Glass jewellery made through exciting collaborations between glass artists and jewellers.
Originated by the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, this exibition may now be seen at Studio Fusion Gallery, London until 26 May 2018. Details here
image: John Moore, courtesy of the National Glass Centre
Dunedin NZ Artist Residencies
Dunedin School of Art in New Zealand offers Artist-in-Residence opportunities, with excellent facilities. These are offered by invitation. For more information see this link
Colouring titanium
Dr Lynne Bartlett explains how to colour titanium
To accompany our exhibition, a screening & handling session explaining how to use heat or anodisation for great effects with titanium was arranged at the Crafts Study Centre.
The videos may be seen on ACJ's YouTube channel
Narrative Jewellery book
ACJ member Mark Fenn's new book "Narrative Jewelry: tales from the toolbox”
available to order from www.markfenn.co.uk
Our 20th anniversary exhibition 20:20 Visions toured to six venues from January to December 2017Peter Chang RIP
With deep regret we report the death of Peter Chang on 25th October 2017, one of the world's great innovative jewellers
ACJ's sixth international conference
Our 20:20 Visions conference was held in July 2017 at SHU, Sheffield.
See our Conference section. You can also read many articles on past conferences, events, exhibitions nad jewellery news in the Vaults