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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| 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.(...) Michčle Heuzé-Joanno Lappeenranta, Koru2, 2006 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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| Dutch Jubilees Three celebrating jewellery galleries in one year – this is only possible in Holland. Liesbeth den Besten Amsterdam, Klimt02, 2006 
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| 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 
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| 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 
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