November 16th - 28th 2009
Fingers Annual Group Show
LINKS TO CATALOGUE PAGES
PAGE 1 ; Brian Adam Ruth Baird Penelope Barnhill Ben Beattie Rainer Beneke Zoya Beri
PAGE 2 ; Pauline Bern Kobi Bosshard Joanna Campbell Chris Charteris Jacqui Chan
PAGE 3 ; Barry Clarke Octavia Cook Ann Culy Mary Curtis Peter Deckers Gillian Deery
PAGE 4 ; Jane Dodd John Edgar Warwick Edgington Marie Erl Sharon Fitness
PAGE 5 ; Warwick Freeman Karl Fritsch Kath Inglis Lynn Kelly Craig McIntosh
PAGE 6 ; Ross Malcolm Tatjana Panyoczki Tania Patterson Alan Preston
PAGE 7 ; Elfi Spiewack Mia Straka Ann Visser Cox Jasmine Watson Areta Wilkinson
October 19th - 31st 2009
Kate Barton
'Under Construction'
"The works in this series take their inspiration from some of the largest structures in our self-made environment. I have used low tech methods and simple modular parts to build up geometric structures that remain aesthetically fragile - haphazard intervals of prism shapes along a chain, oxidised silver wire configurations referencing building plans pulled into 3D, and model-making match sticks that play at construction." Kate Barton 2009
13th - 25th July 2009
2009 Graduating Students Award
Established in 2008, this annual award is given to outstanding final year visual arts students specialising in Contemporary Jewellery. This year the work of 2008 graduates Anne Baynham, Manukau School of Visual Arts, and Gillian Deery, Unitec, are featured.
Anne Baynham
'The troubles of leaving the nest/flying the coop'
"This has been a tough year for jewellery and I. Our partnership has been rigorously tested since leaving the comfortable and sheltered confines of University. Like a young bird leaving the nest for the first time, I have struggled to find my ' wings' and learn to work independently. This series of work is a narrative of this struggle and follows on from my graduate work."
Anne Baynhan 2009
Gillian Deery
'Find. Trace. Regenerate'
"Find, trace, regenerate describes my performative process of making. All events of the making are archived in the resulting jewellery piece.
Tracing found objects and images onto a metal plane to reconstruct and fabricate into jewellery structures, new narrative constructs are physically created."
Gillian Deery 2009
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18th - 30th May 2009
Pauline Bern
'Glean'
"I collect fragments of materials to manipulate into rings and neckpieces;
we glean information from the jewellery a person chooses to wear."
20th April - 2nd May 2009
Jacqui Chan
'Jacqui Chan's Exotic Blend'
"Decorative Tea tins speak of rich histories of trade in commodity, culture and visual arts between Orient and Occident. Pierced, folded and reconstructed, these brooches pay tribute to cultural exchange in the age of the Asian supermarket and the $2 shop."
9th March - 4th April 2009
Alan Preston
'Pitt Street Methodist Church'
"These Breastplate Pendant sets are from the window of the Pitt Street Methodist Church in Auckland"
23rd Feb - 7th March 2009
'Radiate'
New Jewellery by Mia Straka
2nd - 14th Feb 2009
Elfi Spiewack
'bone, hearth and fire'
November 17th - 29th 2008
Group Show
November 3rd - 15th 2008
Helen Britton
September 15th - 28th 2008
Anna Whitley
"Board Meeting"
July 7th - 19th 2008
Sharon Fitness
M.I.T. Graduating Student Award Recipient
"Play"
May 19th - 31st 2008
Jason Hall
"SHIELD"
April 7th - 20th 2008
WORKSHOP 6 "CRYSTAL ANNIVERSARY SHOW"
Octavia Cook
Jane Dodd
Helen O'Connor
Anna Wallis
March 3rd - 15th 2008
"NEW NECKLACES"
Feb 18th - March 1st 2008
"NEW WORK"
Anna Wallis
Oct 29th - Nov 10th 2007
October 15th - 27th 2007
'LUCKY DRAW'
Tatjana Panyoczki
A FOND CHILDHOOD MEMORY...
EVERY YEAR MAX CAME TO MY VILLAGE WITH THE FAIR.
IT TOOK FOREVER TO SET UP HIS GLEAMING GOODIES - EACH PIECE
ATTACHED TO A STRING.
I WATCHED FOR HOURS OBSERVING THE FACES AND THEIR REACTIONS
AS THEY PULLED...
THERE WAS ALWAYS A WONDERFUL SURPRISE AT THE END OF MAX'S STRINGS.
September 24 - October 6th 2007
'PERMIT'
Group Show
August 17th - September 1st 2007
Karl Fritsch and Lisa Walker
'New Work'
June 25th - July 7th 2007
Christine Butler
February 5th - 17th 2007
'Somewhere in Time and Space'
Belinda Hager
"These pieces are visual musings on time and memories...
-our need to answer the big questions, unlock mysteries
-how our lives are so short on the continuum of time and space
-how we spend our time, how we value it
-how time can appear to move at different speeds
-how we savour our memories
-how memories are triggered - how one can be instantly transported
back through time by a scent, an image, a piece of music etc
-the need to make the most of time by making what we do meaningful
-the pleasure or regret of decisions made and the randomness of what
we call "fate".
The parts of a clock, with names like "all or nothing" and "escapement" can so easily be related to the complexities of our lives. It's as though we have a constant ticking in the background, reminding us of our short stay here on Earth. These items, which only function when making up a whole, are analogous of all the facets that make up our lives, as well as our place in the bigger picture - be it our planet or the universe - in which we are very small, but not insignificant, parts."
Belinda Hager,
2006
November 13th - 25th 2006
Fingers Annual Group Show
October 23 - November 11 2006
Areta Wilkinson
"journey-work"
August 21st - September 2nd 2006
'STOLEN JEWELS'
Renee Bevan, Sandra Bushby, Octavia Cook and Peter Deckers
July 24th - August 5th 2006
'20 years of Unitec Jewellery Design'
works by leading graduates
June 26th - July 8th 2006
'WORLD'
works by expatriot New Zealand JewellersRoseanne Bartley
Kirsten Haydon
Vicki Mason
Lisa Walker
June 12th - 24th 2006
Jonathan Hopcroft
'Jewellery for the Real World'
1. Objects you might see today
Those that might have belonged to someone else; one that can be used to open bottles; those pierced by vent holes; those that are unfamiliar; one that looks like it has been dropped; those full of clues; ones that might be described as facetious; cheerful chubby ones; those featuring facets; those that were loved and well used.
Jonathan Hopcroft 2006
April 10th - 29th 2006
Karl Fritsch
'metrosideros robusta'
 
"Metrosideros robusta is the latin name for the Northern rata.
I see parallels in my approach to jewellery and the growth of the rata tree. These trees start life as an epiphyte in the branches of another tree. As it grows the epiphyte rata sends roots down to the ground. It eventually replaces the host tree when it dies.
More than ten years ago I began using conventional jewellery pieces as a grounding material in my work. Like the epiphyte rata I added my attachment in gold or silver, nestling in or on a ring and also growing over entire pieces of jewellery.
Most of my recent rings do not include any ready-made pieces, they are entirely replaced by my own creations." Karl Fritsch, 2006
Karl Fritsch, winner of the Françoise van den Bosch Award 2006
studied at the Goldschmiedeschule Pforzheim and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich.
March 27th - April 8th 2006
Renee Bevan
'Never A Rose Like You'
"Continuing my interest in the memento mori, the role of the gift, and the fake, this series explores
the rose and its longstanding history as a marker of occasion, celebration and remembrance
within jewellery adornment."
Renee Bevan, 2006
November 14th - 26th 2005
Fingers Annual Group Show
October 10th - 22nd 2005
Kobi Bosshard and Peter Mckay
September 19th - October 1st 2005
Fran Allison, Andrea Daly, Shelley Norton, Lisa Walker
Weeds
"I wonder why someone would choose to be a weed in the garden of jewellery. The answer seems to have something to do with a desire to intensify awareness of everyday things as things in them selves rather than as signs of something else. It is that experimental sensate thing to which Sontag points, the pleasure of touching the familiar and finding it strange, the pleasure found in the weedness of weeds."
Grant Thompson
August 8th - 27th 2005
Joanna Campbell
Swatches 2
In 'Swatches 2' Joanna Campbell continues her process driven exploration of
textiles and metal. She investigates specific qualites of fabric such as drape, weight and bias and reinterprets them using gold and silk.
July 18th - 30th 2005
Karl Fritsch
blind diamonds and rough rubies
"In George Perec's novel A Void, which he wrote entirely without the letter 'e', there's a story about a ring. Perec compares it to a scab, because it has almost become part of the body with age and wear. Karl Fritsch's rings have that quality. It's like inverse alchemy. He uses precious materials and turns them into childish, rough objects that look like they've come out of a candy machine. They're so immediate you can see the fingerprints. A Karl Fritsch ring is like an heirloom, something your great-grandmother might have worn." Francis Upritchard
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July 4th - 16th 2005
Brian Adam
Finger Rings
"These ring forms come from their process. I added bit of natural force,
pressure, heat, gravity and steam, to the material's own properties to shape the
objects." Brian Adam, 2005
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June 7th - 18th 2005
Areta Wilkinson
Legere to gather
Brooch, Pohutukawa, Metrosideros excelsa, Christmas Tree
"Fabricated silver plants build on earlier investigations of colonisation and identity. Legere is Latin the language of taxonomy, Legere To Gather is a gathering of stimuli and the exhibition a celebration of process.
New works were developed from a range of visual and research sources relating to the botanical collecting on Cooks first 1769 voyage to New Zealand. They included original Banks and Solander plant specimens housed in Auckland Museum and Lincoln herbariums, Sydney Parkinson etchings, botanical photographs painting and drawings, my own pressed plant specimens and material experiments." Areta Wilkinson, 2005
Areta would like to acknowledge the support of Creative New Zealand.
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May 16th - 28th 2005
Tania Patterson
Specimens
"This group of work continues my interest in New Zealand natural history and the overlaps between science and art. At Auckland Museum I came across some drawers filled with dead birds, I was struck by how little they told me about birds. These sad inanimate creatures spoke to me more of my own dead, yet these dead things do teach us about life. I am interested what the static museum display does and doesn't teach us." Tania Paterson, 2005
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March 21st - April 2nd 2005
Andrea Daly
Drawing Angel Wings
"This is a whimsical body of work referencing the romantic angel figure. They inhabit the world of 'just out of sight' and though rarely seen they leave their traces everywhere through our literature, religions, myths and contemporary media. They represent potential and possibility, the magical promise of the unknown."Andrea Daly, 2005
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February 14th - 26th, 2005
Pauline Bern
The Ring Project
"I have re-viewed my local environment as a resource, selecting from the beach worn fragments of Waitemata papa, weathered pohutukawa and man-made remnants for intervention and transformation, reassessing the banal.
Made from structures and materials susceptible to wear and tear the rings are as vulnerable as the relationships they so often represent. Care must be taken: unlike the timeless durability of the convention of gold and diamonds, these rings may act as a reminder of the fragility of our emotions and interactions." Pauline Bern, 2005
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January 17th - 29th, 2005
Lynn Kelly
Exotic or Not?
Historically and even today the Pacific conveys the idea of the exotic to new comers. To recognize this view of ourselves and our surroundings is almost unimaginable. It is this possibility of seeing the familiar with an alien gaze that Kelly explores. She represents iconic botanical symbols of New Zealand in a variety of materials that demand a re-inspection of that which we take for granted.
Pennie Hunt writes, "Lynn Kelly's confident use of diverse materials explores the ways in which native plant species can appear delightfully strange, even to accustomed eyes. The real lure of these pieces is that each one has the ability to explore our botanical residents afresh, re-inventing and re-discovering what constitutes the native."
(Art New Zealand Summer 2004-2005, p47).
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