Archive for Jewellery Artists

Gijsbakker-the greatest artist

{ October 20, 2008 @ 9:42 am } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Gijs Bakker (Amersfoort, 1942) was trained as a jewellery and industrial-designer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfack Skolen in Stockholm, Sweden

Bakker’s designs cover jewellery, home accessories and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. He worked and works for numerous companies: Polaroid, Artifort, HEMA, Van Kempen & Begeer, and recently forENO Studio in France.

In 1993, Gijs Bakker founded together with design critic and historian Renny Ramakers Droog Design, a Dutch collection of designers, products and information. Together with Ramakers, Bakker is the selector and art director of all products within Droog Design.

Bakker also teaches for more than 40 years at different schools, among others the Delft University of Technology. After teaching at the Design Academy Eindhoven for more than 15 years, Bakker is now head of the Masters department, IM.

Together with Italian gallery owner Marijke Vallanzasca Bakker founded the Chi ha paura…? (Italian for who is afraid for) foundation in 1996. With Chi ha paura…? (CHP…?) Bakker wants to show the international design world that a piece of jewellery is more than a decorative fashion accessory. CHP…? challenges the fear for the contemporary jewellery.

Gijs Bakker travels around the world to give workshops, lectures about his own work, CHP…? and Droog Design and is frequently a member in juries. Currently his retrospective exhibition “Gijs Bakker and Jewelry” and the regarding catalogue are on display in various museums around the world.
Gijs Bakker’s work is represented in collections, both in museums and private worldwide.

information from his website:   http://www.gijsbakker.com/

Yael Krakowski

{ October 17, 2008 @ 1:28 am } · { Exhibitions & Events, Jewellery Artists }
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Yael Krakowski

Management: Andrzej Bielak
Place: Galeria Bielak
(Krakow, Poland)
15-Sep-2008 – 24-Oct-2008

website: www.galeriabielak.pl
website: babielak@netart.com.pl

, Piece, 2004

Piece: Untitled 2004
Glass beads, cotton thread

, Piece, 2004

Piece: Untitled 2004
Glass beads, cotton thread

, Necklace, 2004

Necklace: Untitled 2004
Glass beads, cotton thread

, Necklace, 2004

Necklace: Untitled 2004
Glass beads, cotton thread

, Necklace, 2004

Necklace: Leaves necklace 2004
Glass beads, cotton thread

, Necklace, 2004

Necklace: Mushroom necklace 2004
Glass beads, cotton thread

, Necklace, 2000

Necklace: Small balls necklace mix 2000
Glass beads, cotton thread

Statement

“Color is a fundamental element in my life and work, it brings me joy and comfort” and everyone can see it on exhibition.¨

Yael Krakowski

Yael Krakowski
Galeria Bielak
Ul. Slawkowska 4
31014 – Krakow
Poland
Telephone: +48 12 422 83 86

Hermann Jünger

{ October 6, 2008 @ 11:04 am } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Jewelry artists in northern Europe and the United States led the way, and in Germany, Hermann Junger (b. 1928) exerted a strong influence on the development of contemporary jewelry both as an artist and mentor. As one of Germany’s premier goldsmiths, Junger’s innovative jewelry and inspired teaching had a far-reaching influence not only in his native country, but throughout Europe and the United States as well…………….Junger’s life continues to be an exploration of new forms and sources of inspiration that he transforms into his jewelry. Throughout his career, Junger created jewelry that reflects his thoughtful and abiding commitment to the process of “making,” through which he examines and reacts to the world around him. His objects encourage the wearer/viewer to appreciate through the artist’s eyes a world in which everything can possess intrinsic energy and visual poetry. In Junger’s words, “Only slowly, the ‘new’ emerges out of a careful transformation of the everyday and familiar. For a piece of jewelry, the design of a medieval book cover may provide instant inspiration, a rubbish dump a more remote one; both are triggers for the imagination.

More information visite http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/hermann-junger.htm

{ September 22, 2008 @ 11:04 pm } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976), whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time. Born in a family of celebrated, though more classically trained artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art. He began by developing a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially “drew” three-dimensional figures in space. He is renowned for the invention of the mobile, whose suspended, abstract elements move and balance in changing harmony. Calder also devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheet steel. Today, these stately titans grace public plazas in cities throughout the world.

Peter Chang

{ September 15, 2008 @ 10:26 am } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Peter combines jewellery with elements of sculpture to produce complex brightly coloured pieces which can be worn or can simply exist as objects in their own right.

He uses various coloured plastics, such as acrylic and PVC, to create his jewellery and furniture, and is influenced by nature and organic forms.

He sai, “The materials I use are inseparable from my ideas- the plastics have a present-day integrity that reflects the age in which we live. Plastics, unlike some natural materials are basically characterless, anything you make out of them only adds!

I like the irony of making a permanent statements an object to last, form materials designed to be thrown away. Object-making is a non-verbal attempt at balancing the intellect with the intuitive, harmony between the hemisphere.”

website:  http://www.peterchang.org/

David Walker

{ September 8, 2008 @ 1:27 am } · { Jewellery Artists }
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David Walker was Born England 1941. He started to study at Manchester College of Art and Design in 1958 and finished in1963 then he movedto Australia in 1964

He has been worked variously as lecturer, designer and artist-craftsman.

Currently senior lecturer and head of the crafts section of the Department of Art and Design at the Western Australian Institute of Technology.

He traveled to the United Kingdom, America and Europe in 1980, examining undergraduate and postgraduate craft courses in tertiary institutions.

Fritz Maierhofer

{ September 8, 2008 @ 1:09 am } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Fritz Maierhofer was born in Vienna in 1941

1955 Began a traditional goldsmith in Anton Heldwein’s workshop and Took charge of running the workshop in 1965.

In 1969 he began to work free-lance in London, started to experiment with acrylic in combination with gold and silver and made the first object in acrylic and brass in 1971

In 1977  He worked on a new concept, “metal drawings” in silver and gold then

He temporarily went London in 1987 started to work on forms andstructures in gold and silver

 

1990Austrian Design Award acknowledgement

website <http://www.fritz-maierhofer.com&gt;

Peter Skubic

{ August 18, 2008 @ 3:08 pm } · { Jewellery Artists }
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In the 30-year career captured in this monograph, the Austrian artist Peter Skubic has relentlessly explored the limits of the jewelry medium. Trained to work in gold and silver, he has made steel his primary material in an oeuvre encompassing functional and nonfunctional jewelry, large site-specific works, drawings and at one point an outré project, “Jewellery Under the Skin,” in which a steel implant was inserted under the skin of his arm and removed seven years later. Helen W. Drutt English comments on Skubic’s protean talent: “His works of the 1970s express a strong affinity to sculpture, evident in the cut-rings and severely constructed brooches of 1977 with their cables and planes reminiscent of bridges and electrical structures. Later he tantalizes us with absurd combinations of found object. . . . Skubic’s investigations bring us into the world of performance and conceptual art.”

Todd Reed, Jeweler

{ August 16, 2008 @ 11:40 am } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Todd Reed is best known for his work with raw and cut diamonds.

Reed is a self-taught jewelry artist who uses his training as a pastry chef as the basis for his method of fabricating his jewelry pieces.

Website :   http://www.toddreed.com

Goudji, Sculptor, jewelry designer

{ August 4, 2008 @ 12:58 pm } · { Jewellery Artists }
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Goldsmithery is a terrible art for the world has turned its back to it too long.Yet this prime art counts among its artists one of the greatest goldsmith of our time: Goudji.Like a Benvenuto Cellini, Goudji does not create beautiful objects: he gives shape to beauty. His passion is to make matter serve the most elemental yearnings of the soul, and it is what distinguishes him from all others. Unclassifiable…with a compelling fact: Goudji goes far because he comes from far. Goudji’s alchemy aims at the gold of time. Even his secular work is an essay to eternity. Plainness is what passes. Impassioned with the superior style of form, Goudji creates beauty that springs from life. This religious role of art allows us to forget that it is perishable. The contemplation of Goudji’s pieces might teach us the antithesis of Dostoïevsky’s idea: it is because the world is beautiful that it will be saved.

Stéphane Barsac

visit his website to find out more!!!

http://www.goudji.com/