Jewellery Yearbook 2016 A selection of images of outstanding student work from 2016. 1
Earring by Natalie Thomas, Level 4
FACULTY OF CREATIVE ARTS Certificate in Jewellery Techniques (Level 4) New Zealand Diploma in Jewellery (Level 5) New Zealand Diploma in Jewellery (Level 6) Bachelor of Creative Arts, Visual Arts, Jewellery Contact Fran Allison for more information: fran.allison@manukau.ac.nz ph 09 9688765 x 8191 www.manukau.ac.nz 2
Grant Thompson, Dean, Faculty of Creative Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology The Earrings of Madame de In 1951 Louise de Vilmorin published a novel titled Madame de. It is the story of a woman who refuses to be bound by the expectations of ‘society’ and pursues love freely. Central to the play of events is a pair of earrings, two diamonds each cut to the shape of a heart. By the conclusion of the novel the earrings have been gifted, sold, pawned, lost, purchased, gifted again, retrieved and paid for on four separate occasions by Madame de’s husband. When the earrings are returned to Madame de for the final time they have become simultaneously an expression of the love and the disdain her husband and her lover feel for her, but for Madame de there is no such confusion. She could not, “bear to part with the diamond hearts. They were the token of her only great love. They brought back to her ears the passionate words and to her lips the burning kisses [of her lover].” How extraordinary to have made objects that could ignite a woman’s forlorn lips. Such art, it seems to me, is particular to the work of the jeweller. The jewel may not be a diamond, but it will be made by someone who has combined skills, materials and imagination to produce a unique object with the ability to enter a life and become its touchstone. Jewellery makes its way into a wearer’s life. It gets up close and personal. The jeweller produces an adornment, wearing produces the jewel. Back to the novel. Madame de, as she must, dies a romantic death clasping one precious earring in each hand. Her husband keeps one, placing it over his dead wife’s heart and hands the other to his wife’s lover, who, “kissed the hand of the dead woman and left the room. He went straight to the jeweller’s. ‘Fasten this diamond heart on to a thin gold chain and fasten the chain around my neck so that it may never be undone.’”
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Grant Thompson Dean, Faculty of Creative Arts Manukau Institute of Technology
Contact: info@manukau.ac.nz 0800 62 62 52
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Earring, Ring, Pendant
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Sheri Bowen
Images by Mary Curtis and Sheri Bowen
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Jessica Solbe Choi
Images by Solbe Choi
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Jess Dew
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Images by Jess Dew
Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Jee Kim
Images by Jee Kim
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Daniel Kuek
Images by Mary Curtis and Daniel Kuek
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Veronica Sandoval
Images by Veronica Sandoval
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Jessica Swarbrick
Images by Jessica Swarbrick
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
Natalie Thomas
Images by Natalie Thomas
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Certificate in Jewellery Techniques - Level 4
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Jess Dew, Certificate - Cast and Hollow Rings
About our Jewellery courses Level 4 – Core jewellery making and design skills including casting and enamelling result in strong confident outcomes and a good foundation for more complex techniques and design skills delivered in Level 5. Level 5 – Responding to the broad range of practices from contemporary art based jewellery to fine, fashion and designer/production jewellery, students spend time designing and making work in each of these genres; they participate in a real world experience, working with fashion designers and mounting exhibitions in gallery and shop spaces. Level 6 - The focus of this year is one project, applying all the knowledge and skills from the first two years but now defined by each individual students interests and perspective. Students choose a project that explores the type of jewellery practice (or combination of practices) that they find most engaging with a view to engaging in this area full time once graduated. Level 7 - At the completion of Level 6 you can cross credit into the Bachelor of Creative Arts for a degree qualification focussing on Jewellery. 15
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Antonette Bothma
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Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Parneet Kaur (Niti)
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Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Sarah Kim
3D printed Mix n Match magnets, designed using Rhino CAD 19
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Julia Marin
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Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Huyen Nguyen
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Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Term 1 Project: Contemporary Jewellery
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Curious Objects
Exhibition of M.I.T. Jewellery Students at Masterworks Gallery in Upper Queen Street www.masterworksgallery.co.nz
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Masterworks is one of NZ’s preeminent applied art galleries.This is an exhibition of work by our year 2 jewellery students from their contemporary jewellery course – this is the part of the programme where we connect the students with industry in various ways (the fashion course is another example).
Term 2 Project: Fine Jewellery
Antonette Bothma
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Sarah Kim
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Parneet Kaur
Term 3 Project: Fashion Jewellery
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
A collaborative design project with Fashion Designer Lela Jacobs
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Images by Richard Orjis for Lela Jacobs
Huyen Nguyen
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Term 3 Project: Fashion Jewellery Fashion designer Lela Jacobs was so impressed with student Huyen Nguyen’s jewellery — which she made as part of a project at Manukau Institute of Technology Faculty of Creative Arts — that she asked to use Huyen’s theatrical jewellery pieces in a photo shoot with her garments. Second year students in the Institute’s Diploma in Jewellery programme were tasked with creating pieces to complement Lela’s beautiful monochromatic clothes. Lela says she was impressed with all the interpretations of the brief, but that Huyen’s pieces stood out. “I love when the true depths of creativity are released and I don’t feel like many are capable of that true unrestricted release... I feel Huyen does this, moves with quiet freedom and trusts the deep levels of creative energy moving through her into her work. I’m warmly humbled by the fact that I helped motivate the outcome of this mysterious avant guard body of work she has placed in this world.” Huyen says she likes to explore unconventional ways of attaching jewellery to the body and was strongly influenced by Lela’s notion of not following trends. 25
Image by Richard Orjis for Lela Jacobs
Term 4 Project: New Production
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Made To Wear: a group exhibition at Royal Jewellery Studio by Manukau Institute of Technology jewellery students
We are delighted to be able to exhibit at Royal for the forth consecutive year. The brief is for the students to design and make a collection of work to be worn and to sell. It is an opportunity for them to potentially sell their first work and for people to buy some beautiful and original pieces from future New Zealand jewellers.
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Royal Jewellery Studio Show
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 5
Made To Wear: a group exhibition by jewellery students from Manukau Institute of Technology
We are delighted to be able to exhibit at Royal for the forth consecutive year. The brief is for the students to design and make a collection of work to be worn and to sell. It is an opportunity for them to potentially sell their first work and for people to buy some beautiful and original pieces from future New Zealand jewellers. The work will be on display at Royal Jewellery Studio, 486 New North Road, Kingsland from Monday 21 November until Sunday 4 December.
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Macarena Bernal
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 6
I am interested in places and identity, exploring a ‘sense of place’ through the process of engagement with place & material creating a relationship with my surrounding environment, allowing an authentic expression through my pieces. ‘To walk is to collect visually. To stop and pick up stuff is to collect actively’
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Images by Caryline Boreham
Faamele Etuale
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 6
I am fascinated with connections, how jewellery is physically ‘connected’ how we ‘connect’ to the meaning of pieces, how we ‘connect’ with people through what we choose to wear.
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Lesina Salani
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 6
In the wee hours of the morning these rabbits explore the forest, crawling and climbing from limb to limb amongst the highest branches of the tallest trees in search of their favorite food; mushrooms. Their wings are tools used to help buffer their falls when their claws fail to grip to bending branches they attempt to climb while searching for others of their kind. Don’t bother trying to find them, they may be blind as bats but these furry dudes find their way around using echo location so they’ll hear you before you see them.
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Alana Nita
Diploma in Jewellery - Level 6
I am interested in places and identity, exploring a ‘sense of place’ through the process of engagement with place and material creating a relationship with my surrounding environment, allowing an authentic expression through my pieces.
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Experimentation: Drawing, Maquetting, Making, Resolving
Lesina Salani
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Monika Fraider
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Bachelor of Creative Arts
Small Scale Sale at Auckland Art Gallery Gift Shop Manukau Institute of Technology jewellery students were invited to sell their works at the Auckland Art Gallery Giftshop for the month of December. After finishing all their course work for the end of the year, many of the students from all year levels created saleable works. This real world experience taught them valuable skills about collaboration, marketing, packaging and sending work out to galleries and retailers.
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Weekend Workshops Throughout the year we offer weekend workshops to established jewellers and students by internationl jewellers and specialist makers. This year we hosted two Australian makers, Vito Bila and Julie Blyfield and ran a four weekend course in stone setting skills by master diamond setter, Brian Moorwood.
Seam work
a workshop by Vito Bila
Seam: furrow, crease, junction, closure, line, vein, layer, corrugation, fold, groove, crinkle, pucker, ridge, wrinkle, scar.. In this workshop, by working with soft (wax, clay, plasticine) and hard (metal, plastic, wood) materials and objects, participants will explore the interstitial space of the seam. Rather than hide, obscure or disguise the join between parts/sections of an object, the aim of Seam work will be to focus on the making of seams to better understand material, the making process and the reading of an object. By the repeated acts of disassembling/dismembering and then joining/recombining various objects with different materials participants will explore various means of bringing objects and materials together. A two day workshop with renowned artist and metalsmith Vito Bila (Aus) exploring concepts of the seam: overlapping, merging, intersecting, touching, nudging, pushing, melding, encroaching, engulfing, infiltrating. Workshop participants should bring several objects (metal and non-metal, hand-held size) to work with during the workshop. Presenter Vito is in New Zealand as part of the international silversmith show, Fixing the Unbroken, on at Objectspace January 30 to February 27. Featuring work by Vito Bila, David Clarke and Peter Bauhuis. When: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14th February 2016 Where: Manukau Institute of Technology, Creative Arts, Z block, 50 Lovegrove Crescent, Otara Auckland Cost: $250 Contact: kim@objectspace.org.nz to book a place or with inquiries.
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International Success In 2016 two students had work they had made in 2015 selected for International exhibitions. Sarah Kim’s work was shown in February in the prestigous Talente exhibition in Munich. Both Sarah and Maca Bernal were selected for the Marzee International Graduate show at Gallery Marzee in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Maca Bernal