November 9th - 30th 2014
Fingers Annual Group Show
Ross Malcolm Ginko brooch
October 11th - 26th 2014
Workshop 6
21st Anniversary
Workshop 6 is a collective jewellery studio based in Kingsland that has been home to many of New Zealand's leading contemporary jewellers since it's beginnings in 1993.
Past and present partners and associated jewellers make up the artists represented within this exhibition and include Areta Wilkinson, Lisa Walker, Anna Wallis, Jane Dodd, Frances Battersby, Octavia Cook, Joanna Campbell, Justine Pollock, Mia Straka, Jasmine Watson, Cheryl Sills and Gillian Deery
July 8th - 27th 2014
2014 Graduating Students Award
Given annually to outstanding final year visual arts students specialising in Contemporary Jewellery, this year's Award Winners' exhibition features the most recent works from our selected graduates of 2013
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March 12th - April 2nd 2014
STONE
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February 12th - 28th 2014
Marijke de Goey
Lines, Space, Illusion
Sculptures for the Body
Fingers is delighted to present an exhibition of jewellery by renowned Dutch artist and illusionist Marijke de Goey.
Recipient of the Francoise van den Bosch Award for jewellery in 1986, Marijke is here for the unveiling of her 15 meter high work "The Tango Dancers" at the Gibbs Sculpture Farm.
October 20th - November 11th 2013
Annual Group Show
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September 2nd - 16th 2013
Gillian Deery
'New Works'
August 12th - 23rd 2013
Kvetoslava Flora (aka Flora Sekanova)
Project 'Schmetterling' 2013
July 22nd - August 2nd 2013
2013 Graduating Students Award
Given annually to outstanding final year visual arts students specialising in
Contemporary Jewellery, this year's Award Winners' exhibition features
the most recent works from our five selected graduates of 2012
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July 8th - 19th 2013
Nadene Carr
New Necklaces
June 10th - 24th 2013
Tatjana Panyzocki
La vie est dure sans confiture...neckpieces
"This body of work orignates from the series 'Verwicklung - Entwicklung' first shown in Zug, Switzerland in 2003. Verwicklung, German for involvement and Entwicklung, meaning evolution and development. The verb, wickeln, is wrapping. 13 years later, I am still entangled and seek to find new avenues, working under the title , 'Wrapped'."
Tatjana Panyoczki, Kaiwaka, June 2013
April 8th - 20th 2013
Roseanne Bartley
'YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW.....'
An exhibition that re-imagines the moment just prior to the first expression of jewellery, and a moment of culture that occurred immediately there after.
My Shadow Wears: Green Ticket (detail) 2012/13
February 25th - 12th March 2013
Lynn Kelly
'Central'
In 2012 Lynn was awarded a Wild Creations residency, a collaboration between the Department of Conservation and Creative New Zealand, to spend six weeks in Bannockburn Central Otago.
This offered her the opportunity to spend time investigating this area, and she was inspired by the rich diversity of wildlife and landscape which has provided innumerable long-lasting reference points and stimuli for her continued work.
She has now produced new work which celebrates this environment and acknowledges the 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Central Otago and the impact it had on the region.
January 29th - February 8th 2013
Elfi Spiewack
'FRAGMENTS'
As a response to the Christchurch earthquakes Elfi has used the rubble and broken pieces she was surrounded with and added historic texts she found about the early years of Christchurch, the building of the Cathedral etc, to give them a new meaning or sense by putting them into a new context.
November 24th 2012
Ross Malcolm
October 28th - November 16th 2012
Fingers Annual Group Show
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October 1st - 18th 2012
Lisa Walker
'SWOON'
August 6th - 24th 2012
2012 Graduating Students Award
Given annually to outstanding final year visual arts students specialising in
Contemporary Jewellery, this year's Award Winners' exhibition features
the most recent works from our five selected graduates of 2011
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July 16th - 27th 2012
Matthew McIntyre-Wilson
'Nga Mahanga - The Twins'
"My practice of weaving in copper and silver originated from an interest in the form and pattern of raranga whakairo.
Combined with my formal training as a jeweller, my work continually evolves primarily incorporating these two art forms.
This current collection of work features pairs of objects - some exhibiting only subtle shifts from their counterparts.
With this new work I wanted to make two pieces at the same time, using the same material, scale and form, but creating each piece with their own subtle differences via the use of pattern. "
Matthew McIntyre-Wilson, May 2012
June 25th - 6th July 2012
Rachel Bell
'Post'
"In 2011 I completed a Masters of Design. This current body of work is a continuing exploration of the palette and repertoire of materials developed during that period of study.
In 'Post' I am utilising materials that I associate with my rural background (including rabbit, knitting needles, linen, gorse and willow), considering notions of home and place while investigating further the combination of natural and traditionally precious materials in a jewellery format."
Rachel Bell 2012
June 4th - 17th 2012
Pauline Bern
'Colonial Goose'
"I want the works to elicit curiosity, intrigue, surprise, humour and perhaps nostalgia. I am not attempting to emulate botanical forms, rather to appropriate the extraordinary, unexpected, and often un-noticed details in nature, into a contemporary jewellery context.
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Pauline Bern
February 7th - March 4th 2012
'Jewelism'Running concurrently with JEMposium, the international Contemporary Jewellery Symposium
held in Wellington, this exhibition features two works from each of the selected artists,
one based on 'Materials into Ideas' and one on 'Ideas into Materials'
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October 31st - November 11th 2011
Fingers Annual Group Show
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PAGE 1 Brian Adam, Ruth Baird, Penelope Barnhill
PAGE 2 Ben Beattie, Rainer Beneke, Helen Britton, Joanna Campbell
PAGE 3 Nadene Carr, Barry Clarke, Octavia Cook, Ann Culy
PAGE 4 Mary Curtis, Andrea Daly, Peter Deckers, Jane Dodd
PAGE 5 John Edgar, Sharon Fitness, Warwick Freeman, Kath Inglis
PAGE 6 Lynn Kelly, Craig McIntosh, Peter McKay, Ross Malcolm
PAGE 7 Julia Middleton, Tatjana Panyoczki, Tania Patterson, Alan Preston
PAGE 8 Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova, Elfi Spiewack, Mia Straka, Lisa Walker
PAGE 9 Sarah Walker-Holt, Anna Ward, Jasmine Watson, Jessica Winchcombe
October 3rd - 21st 2011
Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young
"Unnatural Tendencies"
Australian jewellers Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young have been working together on their 'unnatural' jewellery project since 2008. United by a love of frippery and fakery and a shared aesthetic sensibility, they share a sketchbook and materials whilst enjoying the creative stimulation and fruits of a long-distance collaboration between their hometowns of Adelaide and Sydney.
For Unnatural Tendencies, Simeoni and Young have drawn inspiration from a new collection of shared materials and also from the subtle, unnatural shifts between the inner suburbs of Auckland, Adelaide and Sydney – the botany, architecture and sensibilities at once so similar, yet slightly strange. Many of the pieces are a response to a long walk through Auckland's urban nature, where they sensed a 'wildness' not present in Australia, this has imbued this collection of adventurous new work with a sense of lushness, density and risk – developed and made through an unnatural filter of time and distance, it now makes a return to the site of its germination.
Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young, 2011
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September 3rd - 17th 2011
Renee Bevan, Octavia Cook, Philippa Crane, Mia Straka
"Zeitgeist Shrapnel"
"When Fingers began in 1974 we were a group of people making jewellery. Some had more concerns with ideas in their work than others. 'Guaranteed Trash' in 1976 responded to the punk movement of the time. Shows such as 'Worn Out Art' in 1979 included visual artists and Daniel Clasby even wore a smoked fish as a necktie. Theme shows such as 'Bone' and 'Paua Dreams' in the 80's were largely material based however they did reflect the Zeitgeist of the time dealing with Aotearoa and Pacific identity. By 1989 'New Medals' was dealing with political issues.
Since those days some fine contemporary jewellers have graduated from Tertiary Visual Arts courses. I am delighted that the Fingers Shopgirls, all graduates from such courses, are honouring those early shows with 'Zeitgeist Shrapnel' moving on from the old and dealing with ideas from now."
Alan Preston, 2011
August 22nd - September 2nd 2011
Julia Middleton
"(de) Compositions"
Julia Middleton, a recent graduate of Whitireia Polytechnic, explores the realm of abandoned technologies, offering up the dismantled structural remains of our precarious civilization.
Middleton takes inspiration from sources both empirical and cultural. Recent geophysical events in Christchurch, and worldwide, are referenced in the (de)structure of the pieces presented here. She hints at dereliction, of wreckage.
The pieces writhe and buckle. Metallic powders coat these artefacts suggesting ash or fallout, erosion and corrosion. The rings, like remnants of a long abandoned lunar mining colony, are contorted and aged, suggesting a kind of 'future past'. 'Con' is pure cultural criticism on a finger.
Middleton’s work is infused with a dark sense of humour and an uncanny newsworthiness.
August 1st - 12th 2011
2011 Graduating Students Award
The annual Fingers Graduating Students Award is given to outstanding final year visual arts students specialising in Contemporary Jewellery. This year's exhibition features the most recent works from our four award winning graduates from 2010.
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July 4th - 22nd 2011
The Dowse Gold Award Recipients Show
In 1998 Australian decorative arts patrons David and Barbara Thomas formed a partnership with the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt to offer a unique opportunity for contemporary jewellery artists to explore the properties of this most precious material on a level not usually accessible to them, by establishing the Thomas Foundation Gold Award for Jewellery.
Now in its twelfth year, the award is offered biennially and is now funded by the Dowse Foundation. The prize consists of $4,000 in cash and $6,000 in gold, some of which is to be used to create the winning design which then becomes part of The Dowse collection.
In their selection the judges look for a design that demonstrates an understanding of gold in the fullest sense - technical and cultural, and the resulting collection of works in gold is both stunning and distinct to New Zealand.
The 'Dowse Gold Award' exhibition at Fingers will be the first time that this body of work has been shown in Auckland. Each of the five award recipients (Pauline Bern 2000, Joanna Campbell 2002, Kirsten Haydon 2004, Lynn Kelly 2007, and Areta Wilkinson 2009), have created a small body of work to sit alongside their winning entries, and in addition each participant has selected one other jewellery artist to exhibit with them, with choices based on personal inspiration, use of gold or themes discussing value.
The result is a diverse and exciting show of contemporary treasures by internationally renowned jewellers. The exhibition will commence with an opening from 2pm on Sunday the 4th of July, and will run till the 22nd of July.
Fingers gratefully acknowledges the generosity of The Dowse in making this exhibition possible.
May 30th - June 10th 2011
Karl Fritsch
'ringe zu verkaufen'
"I am always very happy when I accidentally meet somebody wearing one of my rings. Usually it looks different than when it left me, and this is great. It lives with somebody and experiences incredible things. The ring wants people to try it on – for whichever reason – and even a collector or a museum curator won’t be able to resist it. The ring is curious and looks for curious wearers."
Karl Fritsch
March 7th - 18th 2011
Ross Malcolm
'Home Sweet Home'
'Fun with Flax'
"Spending time away from home recently has helped me develop some different ideas... One has been to investigate and use things in my immediate surrounds as starting points for new work.
'Fun with Flax' has manifested because I have a bush directly outside my kitchen window... it's in my face every day and I see it change through the seasons.
In summer, its earthy colours shift and mingle sometimes with a backdrop of bright washing on my clothesline... Tuis visit intermittently, adding a unique New Zealand touch to the palette. In winter, spent pods on high stalks flutter and dance in the wind.
These 'Fun with Flax' pieces have been made with found plastics, tin, resin, synthetic/linen threads and sterling silver. Coming to grips with new concepts and materials isn't always easy, but its good fun, plus, an added bonus if it works!"
Ross Malcolm, 2011
Malcolm left a career in construction to pursue his interest in contemporary jewellery, first studying then teaching at Manukau Institute of Technology. The jeweller's technical innovations result from comprehensive explorations into the possibilties of his chosen materials.
February 7th - 18th 2011
Silke Trekel
Spatial Structures
"I am fascinated by level and spatial structures and their principles of arrangement. Discovering these and transforming them into jewellery is my artistic ambition. Associations with architecture and the microcosm of the plant world are visible in equal measure. Using just a few basic elements, I create room-filling, complex structures, whose charm lies in the balance between the simple, large form and the wealth of the detail in the small form - the finely chased ornament."
Silke Trekel, 2010
Silke Trekel received her early training in Germany under Professor Dorothea Prühl at the University of Art and Design, Halle.
As well as receiving numerous awards in Germany and exhibiting widely in Europe and America, she has taught a masterclass at the London Royal College of Art and was Artist in Residence at the ISCP New York.
Her work is held in the A.I.R. Contemporary Jewellery Collection in Idar-Oberstein, the Marzee Collection in Nijmegen, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.
November 7th - 19th 2010
Fingers Annual Group Show
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October 4th - 15th 2010
Craig McIntosh
New Work
"This body of work continues my exploration of the idea of jewellery as a memento. These mementos are fleeting moments. The snapped end of a plastic spoon dropped on a pavement, a broken lighter washed up on the beach, other unidentifiable knobs and lumps and shards of plastic or glass.
Nothing is irreplaceable.
'Things' are seductive when new. Glossy, sharp edged, crisp. When they are old we tend to buy new things rather than considering repair.
We throw out the old 'things' with little thought for where they might end up.
An object such as a plastic cigarette lighter usually has no sentiment attached to it.
A smoker will use that lighter every day, more than once a day. The lighter will always be on hand, an intimate part of the paraphernalia of that now unfashionable and unhealthy pleasure.
An experienced smoker can locate their lighter and light a cigarette without even thinking about it. The lighter will become an extension of their body.
Yet when the lighter fluid is gone the smoker will discard the lighter with very little thought and buy a new one.
What was once vital is now irrelevant."
Craig McIntosh 2010
September 13th - 24th 2010
Jasmine Watson
'Mandalam'
"My jewellery is inspired by floral arabesques, rose windows and ancient eastern Mandalas; diagrams of geometric clarity with graceful symmetry and repeating patterns that represent balance, harmony and the infinite.
This series of sterling silver and enamel brooches is made using the champlevé technique, combining intricate detail and ornamental surfaces with layered and repeated pierced silhouettes to create delicate and elaborate formations."
Jasmine Watson 2010
August 23rd - September 3rd 2010
Lynn Kelly
'Specimen'
Jewellery inspired by New Zealand native flora
"This work arises from a voyage I undertook in 2007 to Dusky Sound, at the invitation of the Otago Peninsula based Caselberg Trust. During this trip several sites were visited where the Endeavour moored on its first trip and Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander had collected New Zealand plant specimens.
With the help of Creative New Zealand I then went on a research trip to the UK in 2008 and visited the Natural History Museum in London to view the original botanical collections and journals of Sir Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson's sketches and drawings from the 1768 - 1771 visit.
I am intrigued by the early pressed specimens and have been experimenting with creating various representations of these plants. This show is based on my responses to the pressed plants in the herbarium and beautiful botanical drawings I viewed."
Lynn Kelly 2010
August 2nd - 21st 2010
2010 Graduating Students Award
The annual Fingers Graduating Students Award is given to outstanding final year visual arts students specialising in Contemporary Jewellery. This year's exhibition features the most recent works from our three award winning graduates from 2009.
Debbie AdamsonOtago Polytechnic
Nadene CarrManukau School of Visual Arts
Kristin TollerUnitec School of Design
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June 28th - July 17th 2010
The Compendium Finale
of Contemporary Jewellers
In March 2008 Andy Lim of the boutique European publisher Darling Publications contacted every jeweller he had met since his introduction to Karl Fritsch in December 2006. Each member of this first group was invited to select another three jewellers who then selected two who in turn chose one.
After 24,000 emails the result was the publication in December 2008 of a two volume set weighing 13.5 kilos showing the work of 1044 makers from 54 nations.
Twenty four of the artists included in the publication are represented by Fingers and each has been invited to show their recent work alongside the publication which will be on display in the gallery during the exhibition.
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May 17th - 28th 2010
Jane Dodd
9 New Messages
Jane Dodd has been a member of Workshop6 jewellery collective since 1994. Recent work includes strangely familiar hybrid creatures made from hand carved natural materials combined with precious metals and stones.
"Some awards, trophies and gifts are presented in a prize-giving of dreamy mythic beings and spooky fabrications. Some represent givers, some are takers. There's mixed media and mixed messages."
Jane Dodd 2010
February 22nd - March 13th 2010
Joanna Campbell
'Good as Gold'
"The light-hearted 'Good as Gold' jewellery collection
reinterprets Kiwi colloquialisms that have
'stuck around' for generations."
Joanna Campbell
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