 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 1 2009 Copper, enamel, acrilyc
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 2 2009 Acrilyc
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 3 2009 Copper, enamel, acrilyc, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 4 2009 Copper, enamel, acrilyc, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 5 2009 Copper, enamel, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 6 2009 Polymer clay, paint, quartz
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 7 2009 Copper, enamel, acrilyc, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 8 2009 Acrilyc, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 9 2009 Acrilyc, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 10 2009 Copper, enamel, acrilyc, wengue, stone
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 11 2009 Copper, enamel, polymer clay, paint, ebony
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 12 2009 Polymer clay, paint, acrilyc, glass
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 13 2009 Copper, enamel, polymer clay, paint
 Gemma Draper Object: Apertura 14 2009 Acrilyc, found box
 Installation of Apertura exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum
 Installation of Apertura exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum
 Installation of Apertura exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum
 Gemma Draper Brooch: E is for Blossom 2008 Painted wood, nickel silver, sterling silver, copper, enamel, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: S is for Union 2008 Copper, enamel, wood, sterling silver, silk, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: U is for Bridal Bed 2008 Wood, brass, sterling silver
 Gemma Draper Brooch: B is for Increase 2008 Copper, enamel, brass, acrilyc, sterling silver
 Gemma Draper Brooch: R is for exhuberance 2008 Copper, enamel, acrilyc, brass, nickel silver, silk, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: T is for Thalamus 2008 Copper, enamel, amethyst quartz, sterling silver, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: R is for Excess 2008 Acrilyc, brass, nickel silver, sterling silver, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: I is for Abundance 2008 Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, brass, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: D is for Growth 2008 Wood, brass, sterling silver, optical lent,steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: G is for lustful 2008 Copper, enamel, nickel silver, red aventurine quartz, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: P is for Hotbed 2008 Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, mirror, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: R is for Lair 2008 Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, mirror, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: A is for Den 2008 Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, mirror, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: E is for Fullness 2008 Wood, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: E is for plural 2008 Copper, enamel, acrilyc, glass beads, nickel silver, sterling silver, steel wire
 Gemma Draper Brooch: 44 2008 Copper, enamel, magnets
 Gemma Draper Brooch: cut and birth 2006 Horn, opal beads, pink quartz beads, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: thats a soft signal 2006 Horn, quartz, glass beads, mother-of-pearls beads, silver, steel Brooch-necklace
 Gemma Draper Brooch: the silence I 2006 Horn, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: several ways to say it 2006 Horn, marble, glass beads, silver, steel Brooch-necklace
 Gemma Draper Brooch: the silence II 2006 Horn, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: slow joints 2006 Horn, quartzite, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: sweet joints 2006 Horn, marble, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: soft joints 2006 Quartzite, horn, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: quite long väli II 2007 Painted wood, quartz, oxidise silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: white väli 2006 Painted wood, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: tactile väli 2006 Painted wood, silver, gold, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: past väli 2006 Painted wood, plastic coated wood, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: white (and this little black) visible väli 2006 Painted wood, marble, pearls, calcite beads, onyx beads, oxidise silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: ongoing spring 2007 Painted wood, calcite, glass beads, oxidise nickel silver, silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: mourning of that beauty 2007 Painted wood, onyx, onyx beads, thread, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: several joints signals or one plain and dark trophy 2007 Horn, quartz, gold, oxidised silver, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: hidden joints or one private and curve trophy 2007 Painted wood, smoked quartz, steel
 Gemma Draper Brooch: initial distance (almost apparent) 2007 Painted wood, quartz, glass beads, silver, steel
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Gemma Draper, Barcelona, 1971
Education
2007-09 Master in Fine Arts. Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI. US.
1999-03 Graduate in Plastic Arts and Design | Major: Jewellery. Massana School. Barcelona.
1997-99 Artistic Jewellery. Llotja School. Barcelona.
1992-97 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Public collections
Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA (USA) | CODA Museum. Apeldoorn, NL | Young Talent Collection. Françoise van den Bosch Foundation. NL | Muzeum Ceského ráje v. Turnov. (Czequia)
Prizes and Awards
2008 Study abroad award. Generalitat de Catalunya. Award for artistic creation for the project Excessive Plural. Generalitat de Catalunya. | Award for artists traveling abroad. Institut Ramon Llull. Generalitat de Catalunya. | Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, New York | Robert H. Daisley Memorial. Cranbrook Merit Scholarship | Annual Scholarship Awards & Exhibition. Detroit Artists Market. | SNAG Endowment Honorable Mention.
2007 Award for artistic research for the project Healing Cuts. Generalitat de Catalunya.
2005 Award for artists traveling abroad. Institut Ramon Llull. Generalitat de Catalunya.
2003 Scholarship Carta Blanca-Any del disseny for the project “The body of this jewel”. Diputación de Barcelona and FAD | Prizes ARTFAD. Jury’s special mention.
2001 Prizes Enjoia’t. First prize-Installation on the body.
Solo exhibitions
2008: Parties under bridges (part 2). Wittenbrink Zeigt Schmuck project. Munich. | Parties under bridges. Galerie Rob Koudijs. Amsterdam.
2006: cordial changes. Galleria Norsu. Helsinki.
2005: bliss-à-bliss. Galeria Al65. Vilanova i la Geltrú. Barcelona.
2004: aflordepiel. Galeria Alea. Barcelona.
Group exhibitions
2009: Pensieri Preziosi 5, Oratorio di San Rocco,Padova | M’agraden les joies que portes, Galeria Alea, Barcelona |For Long and Faithful Duty-10 years of Beauty. Platina Gallery, Stockholm | Design Circus, DDI- Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid | Design Circus, DDI- Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid | Sieren met dieren (Adorn with animals), Coda Museum, Apeldoorn | Annual International Graduation Show, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen | Loose Canon, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US | COLLECT, Saachi Gallery, London | Near and Far, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki | SOFA Fair New York | Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu. Hawaii.
2008: Winter, Platina Gallery, Stockholm | JUST MUST, Great Guildhouse, Tallinn | Hand to Hand, MUDAC, Lausanne | COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Detroit Artists Market Scholarship and Exhibition Program: Cranbrook.
2007: SOFA Fair Chicago. (US) | Dual Exhibition. Ornamentum Gallery. Hudson, NY. (US) | Think Tank 04 Symposium: "Gift“ | Spanish contemporary jewellery. Galeria Rantapaja. Lappeenranta. | New concepts, new languages, new gallery.Klimt02 Gallery. Barcelona | New Horizons. Art Gallery Rob Koudijs. Amsterdam (Holland) | Giolleria Contemporanea. Oratorio di San Rocco. Padova (Italy) | Schmuck’07. 59th International Trade Fair. Munich (Germany)
2006: Francoise van den Bosch Foundation.Contemporaries and young talents.CODA Museum. Apeldoorn | Johalria contemporanea. Pedras e Pêssegos. Porto | BUE-BOG-BCN gestos sobre el cuerpo. CCEBA. Buenos Aires | Group show of work from Barcelona. Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h. Montréal.
2005: BCN.Jewellery Factory.Craft & Design Centre. Manchester.Bluecoat DisplayCentre. Liverpool | 2e.Triennal du Bijoux Contemporain. Musée de l’orfèvrerie. Seneffe | The Nomad Room. Contemporary Jewellery, Intimate Space and Public Domain. Centro Cultural de Belem. Lisboa | XVII international jewellery symposium. Turnov.
2004: T-shirt. Forvm Ferlandina. Barcelona | « la schmuckeria » | Galerie 32. Karlsruhe | Sideraden uit Spanje | Galerie Beeld&Aambeeld. Enschelde
2003: Nómades de la Memòria. Escola Massana al FAD. Barcelona | Peu de reina itinerant. Barcelona, Madrid, León, Buenos Aires | Nachstucke. Gallery Friends of Carlotta. Zurich | Srebrne szkoly. Gallery Sztuki. Legnica
2002: L’ornement est-il toujours un crime? HÉAA. Ginebra | Natur und Zeit. Deutches Goldschmiedehaus. Hanau.
Lectures
2008: The Present is an Unexpected Material. Presentation at MAD, New York.
2007: Undressing the guests. Lecture at Escola Massana. Barcelona
2006: The space between two things. Lecture at South Carelia Polytechnic.
Lappeenranta | We are on air. Workshop for jewellers and designers in the FAD, Barcelona | The jewel like a place. Lecture at Escola Industrial, Barcelona.
2005: Your setting or mine. Lecture at Gold and Silversmithing department of RMIT. Melbourne
2004 Paper in the series woman-culture-industry. Higher School of Design and Caixa Sabadell Foundation | Paper in Jewellery?, Craftwork?. Where are we? JORGC. Barcelona.
2003 Jewellery States. Recoleta cultural center. Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Professional experience
Since 2002 I work as an independent artist in my Barcelona workshop.
Teaching
2009 Additions and Subtractions. Workshop. Lamar Dodd School of Art. University of Georgia. Athens. US
2007 Otras herramientas de trabajo. Workshop for jeweler and designers. CCEBA in Buenos Aires. (Argentina)
2006 We are on air. Workshop for jewellers and designers. FAD Laboratory in Barcelona.
2004 Teacher at the graduate course Psychology of Creativity. Autonomous University of Barcelona
Artist in residence
2006-07 Rantapaja Studio. South Carelia Polytechnic. Lappeenranta (Finland).
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