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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

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

Text ot the conference at the Arts Ornata Simposium, Barcelona 1999

(...) Creation is not communication, creation is loneliness, a loneliness calmly accepted. (...)

Ramon Puig Cuyàs

Barcelona , Ars Ornata, 1999

The Flower in the Wound: Situations & Reflections Part 2

This is the second part of Margaret West conference during the workshop Situation at Sweden in 2004.

Margaret West

Gothenburg , Konstepidemin, 2004

Ramon Puig. An hybrid mind

Ana Campos

Porto , Esad, 2003

The Flower in the Wound: Situations & Reflections Part 1

(...) Many things can incite an artist to make jewellery, irrespective of its potential role as a social catalyst. It is often prompted by existing situations, though it is not necessarily directed towards subsequent ones. What happens happens (or mis-happens). But, like all jewellery, it is haunted by the presence or the absence of a wearer. (...)

Margaret West

Gothenburg , Konstepidemin, 2004

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

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

Beyond the showcase

Liesbeth den Besten

2004

After the revolution, jewellery without boundaries Jewellery in The Netherlands since 1990.

Liesbeth den Besten

2003

JEWELRY -The State of the Nation

2003

A look at Constel.laciò: a jewel open to dialogue with the receptor

Ana Campos