Alliages is a contemporary jewellery gallery in Lille, France. Juan Riusech started the gallery in 2009 to show contemporary jewellery and educate people about this art form. He wants to show the work of beginning as well as established artists. Each year he organizes an open call to select the group of artists who will be part of the permanent collection for a year. This year's artists are: Alix Manon, Ana Garcia Moya, Annie Huang, Aurelia Yeomans, Beate Pfefferkorn, Charlotta Lindvall, Claudia Steiner, Hakan Aktug, Isabelle Busnel, Izabella Petrut, Jason Thomson, Juan Harnie, Juan Riusech, Katja Toporski, Kristin Beeler, Ksenia Vokhmentseva, Lital Mendel, Mabel Pena, Mar Sánchez, Margarita Alonso, Margo Nelissen, Marita Sario, Masako Hamaguchi, Michelle Kraemer, Minna Karhu, Natasha Morris, Nicole Schuster, Noelia Macchi, Sébastien Carré, Sinéad Cooke, Suvi Tupola, Teresa Faris, Veronika Fabian, Viktoria Münzker, Viktoria von Malottki & Yiota Vogli For the past two years, Juan also organized the Legacy Award; an annual award where the selected pieces are presented at Joya Barcelona. The artists can win several awards: the Alliages choice award, the Jury award and the Public award. The Public award winner is chosen by the visitors of Joya who can vote for their favorite piece. I'm glad to be part of the Alliages permanent collection for the second time this year. I think an organization like this is very helpful for starting designers. For me it was one of the first exhibitions I was part of. My work was presented next to other starting designers as well as more established designers. Thanks to Alliages, some of my pieces where shown in France and also in Spain. If you get the chance to visit the gallery in Lille or see the collection at a different location, please do! You won't regret it. Facebook: www.facebook.com/alliages/ Website: alliages.org/
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Last weekend the Bachelors of graphic design, visual arts and jewellery design of St-Lucas Antwerp had their graduation expo. I was invited by Laura Braspenning, head of the jewellery department, and in addition to showing me around the exhibition, she gave me a small tour of the facilities. Thank you for the warm welcome! There where two jewellery designers who graduated; Cleo Van Woensel and Yosra Kadri. Next to their projects you could see a project by the first and second year jewellery design students. They had several assignments around the 'chain' and it was very interesting to see all the different results with the same starting point. I was immediately drawn to a few pieces, afterwards they turned out to be made by the same student: Djara Van Hove. Especially the variety of and differences between her pieces within the same theme was very commendable. Cleo Van Woensel did not participate in these assignments around the chain but still was drawn to this material. She started from the chain as a stereotypical shape in the jewellery world and wanted to catalogue different types of chains by beginning with a 3D object and going to 2D drawings. She presented different piles of paper, each with drawings (made with the 'frottage' technique) and each pile represented a different type of chain. I found it very fascinating that all the graduating expo's I visited this year were so different. Each school presents its own take on jewellery. This different approach was very clear in this expo. The students from St-Lucas don't necessarily graduate with a tangible piece of jewellery, but they often look at the context of jewellery. A different way of looking at jewellery than I was used to, but nevertheless extremely fascinating. I am very curious to see what these students will show us in the upcoming years! |
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