This blog shares my adventures in jewellery and other things related and completely unrelated.
I often post details of jewellers’ exhibitions, blogs, projects and competitions.
http://theneedlefiles.blogspot.com/
Another book in the design and make series. Textile jewellery is the third in the jewellery series, written by Sarah Kaey. The book features a chapter by Joanne Haywood, based around the textiles technique of smocking.
Other Project Chapters include work by: Suzanne Smith; Liz Brown; Marjory Keay; Vicky Forrester; Helen Robertson; Lilia Breyter; Sarah Smith and Sarah Kettley. You can read more about it on the A&C Black Website:
http://www.acblack.com/visualarts/Books/details.aspx?isbn=9781408101070&title=+Jewellery+using+Textiles+Techniques
This Jewellery book has recently been published by Quarto. It covers a wide range of techniques and processes alongside examples of work from around the world. I was invited to write the design section for the publication.
You can see more information for this book on amazon and you can read more about Vannetta the author of the book on her website www.vannettaseecharran.com/index.php
http://www.quarto.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Contemporary-Jewellery-Making-Techniques/dp/1844484904/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265103834&sr=8-7
There are a million jewelry blogs - a great one Wearable Art Blog here http://www.wearableartblog.com/my_weblog/2009/05/wooden-jewelry-by-julia-turner-.html - covered very interesting work by Julia Turner.
Got favorites?
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Interesting profile of Harriete Estel Berman on metalsmithsunite.blogspot.com
How would you describe what you do as an artist?
ANSWER: I construct everything from jewelry to large sculpture with recycled materials. And all of my work includes social commentary about our material culture and consumer society.
what inspires your designs? ANSWER: I am inspired by the recycled materials and the thought-provoking commentary on advertising and social issues. This is a study and examination of our material culture.
how long have you been involved in this type of making? (how did you start?)
ANSWER: I’ve been making exhibition quality work since 1980. I started with an undergraduate degree in metals in 1974 from Syracuse University and received a graduate degree from Tyler School of Art in 1980.
“Nine artists working in different media were invited to describe one of their works and submit both the work and the description for inclusion in an exhibition. Nine poets were then invited to produce a poem as a response to one of these works and nine jewellers to produce a work inspired by an artist’s text. Texts, poems and jewellery were exhibited without further explanation. In an extension of this original project, for the Galvanise Festival, the original participants were asked to invite further artists, poets and jewellers to participate. This current exhibition displays the work of all 108 participants in the project.”
Image courtesy of Bank Street Arts
www.bankstreetarts.com
www.joannehaywood.co.uk
Alissia Melka-Teichroew’s Jointed Jewelery (pictured below) is brilliant example of selective laser sintering technology. One seamless string of ball joints, it was before impossible to mold a ball joint in ceramics or plastics all in one go, without having to assemble individual pieces together.
Intended as an open dialogue, the collection on display at Material Connexion in NYC is part of an ever-evolving global tour that matures based on feedback provided at each location.
Read the whole article: http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/10/bits_n_pieces.php#
