Installation image. Baubles, Bangles & Beads: Australian Contemporary Jewellery. Photo by Mark Ashkanasy, RMIT Gallery 2006.

exhibition

Baubles, Bangles and Beads: Australian Contemporary Jewellery

10:00am, 1 Nov —
5:00pm, 20 Dec 2006

RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Entry

Free

Baubles, Bangles and Beads highlights the range, quality and inventiveness of Australian contemporary jewellery design.

The exhibition focuses on individual items borrowed from private collections shown alongside current works by the artists, sharing the passion of collecting and celebrating these highly original artists. It also examines the special tripartite relationship between the jeweller, the wearer/consumer and the object.

Collectors

Jewellers

Ann Lewis A. M., arts patron
Penelope Seidler, architect
Dr Gene Sherman, Director, Sherman Gallery
Peggy Wallach, performance artist
Kerry Crowley, Director Yuill/Crowley Gallery
Robert Thompson, writer
Margaret Pomeranz, film critic & TV presenter
Mandy Martin, artist
Paula Dawson, holographic artist
Erika Semler, weaver
Linda Jansen, rock chick and cabaret artiste
Stephen Cassidy, collector
Rhana Devenport, curator
Anna Volska, actor
Conrad Morton, heritage carpenter

Carlier Makigawa
Simryn Gill
Yuri Kawanabe
Sheridan Kennedy
Donna-May Bolinger
Jason Moss
Margaret Kirkwood
Kate Forster
Fiona Hall
Darani Lewers and Helge Larsen
Zara Collins
Rowena Gough
Barbara Heath
Robyn Gordon
Sean O’Conne

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