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Moving On: 8,207,654 mm

A group of jewellery students from the Royal College of Art are staging a walking exhibition covering 8,207,654 millimetres (5.1miles) across London on Friday 25 January.
The students will be showing their contemporary designs in accessible containers on their bodies to encourage live interaction with passers-by in the street on tubes and buses! For the 8,207,654 millimetres walk (mm being the unit of measurement the designers work in) they hope to open up the debate around accessibility of jewellery and so-called precious objects. The collective will encourage the public to touch their work to counteract the traditional notion that jewellery is kept isolated in glass cabinets. Designs will include games of oscillating objects, light constellation objects and rings of strings.

The group begin their journey at the Royal College of Art in Kensington stopping outside city landmarks along the way, including the British Museum and Tate Modern. They will invite passers-by to Gallery SO on Brick Lane to try on pieces from their current jewellery exhibition Chamber of Wonder. The walk will finish at the Design Museum where the students will talk about their experience at the Pecha Kucha x Craft-crossover event, as part of the Museum’s Unexpected Pleasures jewellery exhibition. Throughout the walk, the collective will be giving away 5 complimentary tickets (worth £17 each) for the evening event to members of the public.

The RCA students are part of a newly formed collective called Moving On whose aim is to increase the public’s awareness and accessibility of contemporary jewellery and object culture, Moving On:8,207,654mm is the first in an on-going series of public events.

For more info and tickets for the Pecha Kucha talk visit www.designmuseum.org/talks

-> Route:

11.00 AM: Start The Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore
12.30 PM: 30min stop British Museum, Great Russell Street; TICKET GIVEAWAY
3.00 PM: 30min stop Tate Modern, Turbine hall, Bankside
4.00 PM: 1hour stop Gallery SO, 92 Brick Lane; Gallery SO host a short talk and handling session of Chamber of Wonder
6.00 PM: Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames
7.30 PM: Design Museum Pecha Kucha x Craft Crossover event

-> Friday 25 January 2013
11 AM - 7.30 PM

-> website: http://www.movingoncollective.com

Work in Progress Show 2013

 

Students from the programmes of Ceramics & Glass, Fashion Menswear, Fashion Womenswear, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, and Textiles exhibit their work in progress.

To have a sneak peek into how I design, take a look at the 9 booklets I created for the Work in Progress show.

Booklets on the research process of the ‘Gold price’, ‘SCENTence’, ‘Homage to the label’, ‘Scent of Metals’, ‘Solid Perfume –Jewellery- recipe book’, ‘Find the stone’, ‘Base’, ‘Bejewelled Scent’ and ‘Nano Gold’.

 

 

-> adress:

Royal College of Art

Kensington Gore

SW7 2EU

London

-> 15 January until 20 Januaru 2013
opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday: 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am-5 pm

-> website: http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=518920

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Effe Kijken 5 / Let's Have a Look 5 at Gallery Marzee

The fifth and final 'Effe Kijken / Let's Have a Look' has kicked off. The BIGGER picture project asked the students of the Royal College of art to open up questions about inner experience and exterior appearance. Every student gave their own interpretation of the topic and the results can bee seen at Gallery Marzee in the Netherlands.

For myself, a conceptual jewellery designer, I mostly use a label to frame my work. It is an important part of the work, it not only identifies the maker and the context it also explains the concept and idea. Therefore my work 'Homage to the Label'.

 

 

 



These goldplated magnets have been developed to make nearly
every label wearable. If you buy a piece of jewellery from a
gallery you can, with these magnets, wear the label as well.

 

-> adress:

Galerie Marzee

Lage Markt 3

6511 VK Nijmegen

The Netherlands

 

-> 16 December 2012 until 27 February 2013

opening hours:

Tuesday-Friday: 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am-5 pm

-> website: http://www.marzee.nl/galerie/

 

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what's in a LABEL?

 

 

 

Label:

 

noun 

small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object and giving information about it

verb 

labels, labelling, labelled; US labels, labeling, labeled [with object]

 

-Oxford dictionaries

 

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A label frames a piece.

It provides essential information about the maker and the context in which the piece was made, and it is usually the only visual representation of the title.

 

For a conceptual jeweller, like myself, the label is an important part of a piece because it can contain an explanation of the idea. For those pieces the label is just like the actual work, a different visual, mostly written representation of the idea and yet it does not receive as much attention. Eventhough the label of a piece contains much needed information, there is also no existance for the label when the piece leaves the gallery and/or when the piece is worn.

Why?

 

Should a label for jewellery take on a different shape?

Should it be attached to the piece?

Should it be incorporated in the piece of jewellery?

Or should jewellery not be labelled at all?

root5 CLERKENWELL POP-UP SHOP part 2!

Get ready for a second round of the root5 CLERKENWELL POP-UP SHOP!

Your last chance to pick up some amazing objects / jewellery / leather / silk / scarves / print / scent / cards / wrapping / photography / and much more!

 

 

Established in 2011 by East End artists and designer Sian Evan and Jenny Parker, root5 has invited over 15 designers and artists that represent generations of students and graduates from among others Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
Items start priced at £2.50, up to the extra-special something, the shop opens with a launch
party on 30th November and there will run a small programme of activites and events.

 

Some of my work that will be for sale in the POP-UP shop:

 

 

 

-> adress:

111-113 St John Street, EC1V 4JA, London, United Kingdom

 

-> 13 - 15 December

Opening hours: 11 am - 6 pm and on Thursday there is a late night opening from 6 pm until 9 pm

 

-> website: http://cargocollective.com/root5

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RCA Christmas Fête

This Christmas if you’re bored of giving your Granny a set of hankies or your Dad another road atlas and you need a bit of inspiration, then the RCA is the perfect place to shop as it opens its first Christmas Fête to the public from 6 to 9 December.

RCA students and graduates will be selling a range of affordable, beautiful and unique art and design pieces that are sure to make your friends and family smile. Items start from as little as £2. This is a fantastic opportunity to pick up original Christmas gifts as well as helping to support up and coming creative student talent.

The Fête will be located in a marquee on Jay Mews (just opposite Kensington Gardens) and will also feature a pop up café serving festive sweet treats courtesy of Kath’s Cakes, hot chocolate and mulled soft drinks. The Fête has been organised by the RCA Students’ Union to help promote the work of students to a wider audience.

Visitors to the Christmas Fête will also be able to view the College’s 175th anniversary exhibition, The Perfect Place to Grow, located in the Kensington galleries. With free late night entry on Friday 7 December until 8pm, this will be a chance to visit both events on the same night.

 

Some of my work that will be available for sale on the RCA Christmas Fête is:

 

 

 

-> adress:Royal College of Art, Jay Mews Entrance
Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU, London, United Kingdom

 

-> 6 - 9 DecemberOpening hours: Thursday: 12 - 6 PM, Friday: 12 - 8 PM, Saturday and Sunday: 12 - 5 PM

 

-> website: http://rcachristmasfete.tumblr.com/

 

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