February 7th - March 4th 2012
"Jewelism"
Ted Noten, Fabrizio Tridenti, Manon Van Kouswijk, Helen Britton, David Bielander, Gillian Deery, Sharon Fitness, Ross Malcolm, Shelley Norton, Alan Preston, Lisa Walker, Pauline Bern, Lynn Kelly, Kate Barton, Renee Bevan, Peter Deckers, Andrea Daly, Tatjana Panyoczi, Mia Straka, Mary Curtis, Fran Allison, Roseanne Bartley, Ilse-Marie Erl
Running concurrently with JEMposium, the international Contemporary Jewellery Symposium to be held in Wellington, this exhibition will feature two works from each of the selected artists, one based on 'Materials into Ideas' and one on 'Ideas into Materials'
Opening 5.30 Tuesday 7th
ALL WELCOME!
Recent Exhibitions and New Stock
Fingers Annual Group Show
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PAGE 1 Brian Adam, Ruth Baird, Penelope Barnhill
PAGE 2 Ben Beattie, Rainer Beneke, Helen Britton, Joanna Campbell
PAGE 3 Nadene Carr, Barry Clarke, Octavia Cook, Ann Culy
PAGE 4 Mary Curtis, Andrea Daly, Peter Deckers, Jane Dodd
PAGE 5 John Edgar, Sharon Fitness, Warwick Freeman, Kath Inglis
PAGE 6 Lynn Kelly, Craig McIntosh, Peter McKay, Ross Malcolm
PAGE 7 Julia Middleton, Tatjana Panyoczki, Tania Patterson, Alan Preston
PAGE 8 Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova, Elfi Spiewack, Mia Straka, Lisa Walker
PAGE 9 Sarah Walker-Holt, Anna Ward, Jasmine Watson, Jessica Winchcombe
'Unnatural Tendencies'
A jewellery cross-pollination by
Lauren Simeoni & Melinda Young
Australian jewellers Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young have been working together on their 'unnatural' jewellery project since 2008. United by a love of frippery and fakery and a shared aesthetic sensibility, they share a sketchbook and materials whilst enjoying the creative stimulation and fruits of a long-distance collaboration between their hometowns of Adelaide and Sydney.
For Unnatural Tendencies, Simeoni and Young have drawn inspiration from a new collection of shared materials and also from the subtle, unnatural shifts between the inner suburbs of Auckland, Adelaide and Sydney – the botany, architecture and sensibilities at once so similar, yet slightly strange. Many of the pieces are a response to a long walk through Auckland's urban nature, where they sensed a 'wildness' not present in Australia, this has imbued this collection of adventurous new work with a sense of lushness, density and risk – developed and made through an unnatural filter of time and distance, it now makes a return to the site of its germination.
Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young, 2011
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"Zeitgeist Shrapnel"
"'Zeitgeist Shrapnel' (a.k.a. the shopgirl show!) is where we are as makers in this place, at this time, right now, while reflecting on why people made contemporary jewellery when Fingers first opened 37 years ago."
Mia Straka, Octavia Cook, Philippa Crane, Renee Bevan, 2011
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Julia Middleton
"(de) Compositions"
Julia Middleton, a recent graduate of Whitireia Polytechnic, explores the realm of abandoned technologies, offering up the dismantled structural remains of our precarious civilization.
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2011 Graduating Students Award
The annual Fingers Graduating Students Award is given to outstanding final year visual arts students specializing in Contemporary Jewellery. This year's exhibition features the most recent works from our four award winning graduates from 2010
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The Dowse Gold Award Exhibition
Robert Baines, gold brooch, 2010
Now in its twelfth year, the Dowse Gold Award is offered biennially with the winning design becoming part of The Dowse collection.
The 'Dowse Gold Award' exhibition at Fingers will be the first time that this body of work has been shown in Auckland.
Each of the five award recipients have created a small body of work to sit alongside their winning entries, and in addition each participant has selected one other jewellery artist to exhibit with them.
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Karl Fritsch
'ringe zu verkaufen'
"I am always very happy when I accidentally meet somebody wearing one of my rings. Usually it looks different than when it left me, and this is great. It lives with somebody and experiences incredible things. The ring wants people to try it on – for whichever reason – and even a collector or a museum curator won’t be able to resist it. The ring is curious and looks for curious wearers."
Karl Fritsch
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Ross Malcolm
'Home Sweet Home'
'Fun with Flax' pendants 2010
"Spending time away from home recently has helped me develop some different ideas... One has been to investigate and use things in my immediate surrounds as starting points for new work.
'Fun with Flax' has manifested because I have a bush directly outside my kitchen window... it's in my face every day and I see it change through the seasons.
In summer, its earthy colours shift and mingle sometimes with a backdrop of bright washing on my clothesline... Tuis visit intermittently, adding a unique New Zealand touch to the palette. In winter, spent pods on high stalks flutter and dance in the wind.
These 'Fun with Flax' pieces have been made with found plastics, tin, resin, synthetic/linen threads and sterling silver. Coming to grips with new concepts and materials isn't always easy, but its good fun, plus, an added bonus if it works!"
Ross Malcolm, 2011
Malcolm left a career in construction to pursue his interest in contemporary jewellery, first studying then teaching at Manukau Institute of Technology. The jeweller's technical innovations result from comprehensive explorations into the possibilties of his chosen materials.
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Silke Trekel
'Spatial Structures'
"I am fascinated by level and spatial structures and their principles of arrangement. Discovering these and transforming them into jewellery is my artistic ambition. Associations with architecture and the microcosm of the plant world are visible in equal measure. Using just a few basic elements, I create room-filling, complex structures, whose charm lies in the balance between the simple, large form and the wealth of the detail in the small form - the finely chased ornament."
Silke Trekel, 2010
Silke Trekel received her early training in Germany under Professor Dorothea Prühl at the University of Art and Design, Halle.
As well as receiving numerous awards in Germany and exhibiting widely in Europe and America, she has taught a masterclass at the London Royal College of Art and was Artist in Residence at the ISCP New York.
Her work is held in the A.I.R. Contemporary Jewellery Collection in Idar-Oberstein, the Marzee Collection in Nijmegen, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.
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Fingers Annual Group Show 2010
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Brian Adam, Fran Allison, Penelope Barnhill, Kate Barton
Ben Beattie, Rainer Beneke, Renee Bevan, Jennifer Braithwaite
Joanna Campbell, Nadene Carr, Jacqui Chan, Chris Charteris
Ann Culy, Mary Curtis, Peter Deckers, Gillian Deery
Jane Dodd, John Edgar, Sharon Fitness, Karl Fritsch
Kath Inglis, Lynn Kelly, Ross Malcolm, Craig McIntosh
Shelley Norton, Alan Preston, Elfi Spiewack, Mia Straka
Kristin Toller, Lisa Walker, Anna Ward, Jasmine Watson
MORE EXHIBITIONS
Copies of Lisa Walker's latest publication 'Wearable' are available to view and purchase at the gallery
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Congratulations
Jasmine Watson
Winner of the 'President Award', selected by jury at the 44th International Exhibition of the Japan Enamelling Artist Association. The exhibition is to be held at the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, in February 2011.
Jasmine has also won an 'Award for Excellence' in the 24th International Cloisonne Jewellery Contest, a juried exhibition which is part of the annual 'Japan Shippo Conference' in Tokyo (Shippo is the Japanese word for Enamel).
Gillian Deery
Award Winner, The New Zealand Jewellery Show Contemporary Awards 2010
Selected to exhibit in the International exhibition 'Talente' in Munich 2010
Lisa Walker
Awarded the prestigious 2010 Françoise van den Bosch Award
Jacqui Chan
Currently studying for her Masters at Melbourne's RMIT University
Selected to exhibit in 'Talente' 2010, Munich
Shelley Norton
Waikato Contemporary Art Awards 2009
Selected to exhibit in the world's oldest annual contemporary jewellery exhibition, 'Schmuck' in Munich 2010
Nadene Carr
Award Finalist for the New Zealand Jewellery Show Contemporary Awards 2010.
Octavia Cook
Exhibition at Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, Jan 2011
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