event

MasterMakers opening night

6:00pm - 8:00pm, 5 Sep 2019

RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Entry

Free

Mark Edgoose

Description

Join us at the opening of MasterMakers

Thursday 5 September 6-8 pm

Opening speaker

Virginia Trioli

Journalist, author, radio and television presenter

For over two decades, leading Australian and international Gold and Silversmithing artists have delivered and participated in masterclasses in the RMIT School of Art which has had a profound impact on the training of the craft in Australia.

This major exhibition explores the masterclass legacy and records the cultural, artistic and technical shift in contemporary jewellery and object.

Curator Mark Edgoose

Artists including Peter Bauhuis, Doris Betz, David Bielander, Julie Blyfield, Helen Britton, Beatrice Brovia, Nicolas Cheng, David Clarke, Karl Fritsch, Peter Hoogeboom, David Huycke, Jiro Kamata, Manon van Kouswijk, Yutaka Minegishi, Marc Monzó, Lucy Sarneel, Bettina Speckner

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