Call for entries : 2018 Members' Show
New Ashgate Gallery 9 June - 21 July 2018
Applications now open for this selling show at the well respected Gallery in Farnham. Deadline 3rd April
See the Call & Terms here
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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
ACJ's 20th AGM
The ACJ held our 20th Annual General Meeting on 5th October 2017 at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham.
Marcia Lanyon announces her retirement
Marcia Lanyon has announced that she will be retiring at the end of 2017 from Marcia Lanyon Ltd, the gemstone dealing company she founded in 1975.
Stephen Bottomley made a London Freeman
Stephen Bottomley has been awarded the status of Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company
He became Head of the School of Jewellery in Birmingham in April 2017
De Vroomen: Harmony in colour & form
The exhibition, in the Goldsmiths' Hall, throughout June & July 2017, celebrated five decades collaboration between husband and wife team, Leo de Vroomen and Ginnie de Vroomen.
Emma Paragreen, Curator of the Sheffield Assay Office, reports from the ACJ & SJH Private View
Image: Diamond and enamel brooch, De Vroomen, photograph Richard Valencia for the Goldsmiths' Company