Art jewellery forum, space for opinion, debate and exchange. Access to conferences, articles and interviews about the art jewellery creation written by the most relevant figures on the world of art, jewellery and crafts.

What does Contemporary Jewellery mean?

(...) Contemporary Jewellery is a type of practice - understood as the contemporary offspring of a craft-based design activity that finds its origin in medieval workshops. (...)

Benjamin Lignel

Bethel, Metalsmith Magazine, 2006

My Memories about Colour

(...) Mari Ishikawa’s works illustrate deep roots in japanese tradition and rituals, revealing at once a transformation and metamorphosis of their content in a contemporary jewellery aesthetic. (...)

Mari Ishikawa

Barcelona, Lucca Preziosa, 2007

Architectonics, Foundations in Jewellery

(...) While architecture defines the spaces where we interact with one another jewellery defines who we are as individuals within these defined spaces. (...)

Heather Skowood

Liverpool, architectonicsjewellery, 2006

Lecture by Maria Nuutinen at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium.

The main idea of my work is people and our behaviour.

Maria Nuutinen

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Polish designer's jewellery

I belong to these who are of the opinion that Polish goldsmithing after the WW II has really recovered as late as in 1990 (...)

Andrzej Bielak

Krakow, STFZ Goldsmithing Artists' Association, 2006

Lecture by Sari Liimatta at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium.

Is jewellery as an art form a media, which we try to use, to literally connect us to the society?

Sari Liimatta

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Lecture by Lin Cheung at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium

My work questions the subject of jewellery, teasing out our relationships with it: what we wear and why we wear it.

Lin Cheung

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

MERCURY-Re P: on Location

(...) Visual and verbal language — objects and words — are two distinct and separate modes of human expression. (...)

Margaret West

Sydney, JMGA, 2006

Lecture by Anna Rikkinen & Nelli Tanner at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium

(...) the process of making art in a dialogue of two artists, a space and public. (...)

Anna Rikkinen, Nelli Tanner

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Lecture by Manon van Kouswijk at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium

Within my work I focus on the value and meaning that everyday objects represent to us.

Manon van Kouswijk

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Lecture by Ted Polhemus at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium

(...) Instead of using ornament to secure us symbolically within our tribe, we use ornament by and large to set ourselves apart as separate, distinct individuals. (...)

Ted Polhemus

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Lecture by Florence Lehmann at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium

(...) Since 1998, I has been working on the theme of birth: my work revolves around the analogy between the birth of forms and the birth of human beings, between creation and procreation.(...)

Michèle Heuzé-Joanno

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Interview to Kadri Mälk

(...) In jewellery I am fascinated by its intimacy and the situation where a tiny object may incorporate such a powerful secrecy. Small things contain the secret key to the big ones. (...)

klimt02

Barcelona, Klimt02, 2006

Lecture by Tanel Veenre at the Koru2 International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium

Decadent jewelry perceives an order in the endless chaos?

Tanel Veenre

Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006

Dutch Jubilees

Three celebrating jewellery galleries in one year – this is only possible in Holland.

Liesbeth den Besten

Amsterdam, Klimt02, 2006

The Wedding Band, The (ir)refutable symbol of union

(...) The rings, preferentially valuable, that continue to seal unions are piled up in the gutter and the circle that previously represented infinitely perfect love, now finds itself empty and lifeless (...)

Jose Carlos Marques

Porto, 2006

Coming into view

(...) There is an ongoing discussion in the crafts community about how craft works can reach out to a broader audience and redefine the cultural relevance of this embattled discipline of creativity. (...)

Sakurako Shimizu

New York, 2006