Findings Magazine
Findings is the ACJ printed magazine for members. Published twice a year and posted to members, it reviews shows, technical innovations, materials and subjects of interest to makers, collectors, galleries and museums.
We are grateful for assistance from the Goldsmiths' Company, who have enabled us to publish these back issues online.
Click on the cover photos (below) of each issue to see a pdf online copy.
Autumn 1997 Issue 1
The very first issue of Findings
- The Founding of ACJ
- Marjorie Schuck new piece in the V&A
- New Technologies Symposium
- Ars Ornata Europeana 1997
Reviews:
- Japanese Contemporaries at Lesley Craze
- Artisan, Edinburgh
- New Designers
- Oppi Untracht's Traditional Jewellery of India
plus events & exhibitions
Spring 1999
- Obit, Nick Arber
- The Wearer as Maker, Carole Leonard
- Protection of intellectual rights in France
- Mersey Jewellers & Metal Artists Network
Exhibition reviews
- Brooching it Diplomatically - Madeleine Allbright's collection
- Selection 99, Essen, report by Norman Cherry
- Korean Jewellery, Oxford Gallery
- Lost Cherries - Mark Woods & Rebecca Scott, Electrum
- Decadence - Crafts Council
- Caroline Broadhead - Bodyscape
Winter 1999
- Living National Treasures - Barbara Cartlidge
- Feel it! Wear it! several reports from ACJ's Edinburgh conference
- IT for jewellers
- Research into Ancient Methods, Mike Pinder & Angus McFadyen
Exhibition reviews
- Synthesis, jewellery by Maria Hanson, Scottish Gallery
- Wendy Ramshaw, Picasso's Ladies, V&A
- Malcolm Appleby Retrospective, Aberdeen
Autumn 1998
- Sarah Parker Eaton's workshop
- Susan Cross: teaching in India
- Show me, show me - Simon Fraser on display
- Droit de Suite - commission on resale
- Contemporary Polish jewellery II
- Natasha Heaslip on Urban Jewellery
- Gijs Bakker in Brick Lane
- Ars Ornata Europeana Stockholm report
Exhibition review
- Jewellery Moves, NMS
Book review
- Head, Heart and Hand, Hermann Junger
Summer 1998
Contemporary Polish jewellery- Mizuko Yamada in Edinburgh
- SNAG conference report
- Enamellers conference report (BSoE)
- New Hallmarking regulations
Exhibition reviews:
- Inhorghenta 1998
- 50 Pieces of Gold, CAA
- Made to Wear, Lethaby Gallery
Book reviews:
- Dictionary of Enamelling, Erika Speel
Spring 1998
- Gilian Packard Sponsorship
- Holly Belsher 'Gone West'
- Trade marks
- Interview with Dazzle's Tony Gordon
- Feel it Wear it - ACJ September 1998 conference
- V&A Contemporary Jewellery study day
Exhibition reviews:
- Peripheral Vision, Tasmania
Book reviews:
- Arline Fisch Techniques in metal
- Unclasped: Contemporary British Jewellery
- Jewelry - Fundamentals of Metalsmithing Tim McCreight
Winter 1998
- Japanese Rokoshu patination (technical article)
- British Jewellers in Boston, Mass
- Sotheby's auction of contemporary work
- Gillian Packard obituary
- Is your work being copied?
- Au Couture - World Gold Council 22ct campaign
- ACJ 98 Conference plans
- ALLOY Herefordshire
Reviews
- Design Resolutions, Royal Festival Hall
- Frozen Raindrops - Janna Syvanoja
- Beguiling Brooches, Studio Fusion