Exhibitions Archive - Australasia & Pacific
Australia
Treasury Australia - Australia Treasure room
This exhibition brings together Australian Treasury in the premises of two exhibitions. This part is the work of Prof. Dr. Robert Baines. Dr. Robert Baines, Director of Research and Innovation at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology dedicated. Its Treasure of Evidence, or treasury of the evidence points to the possibilities of jewelry and its cultural, social and political allusions. He combines artisanal detail and technical expertise in the footsteps of the great goldsmiths of ancient, medieval and Renaissance themes of our time and a critical perspective.
26/02/2010 - 10/04/2010
Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
New Zealand
Karl Fritsch: Freeling
I will be showing my first ‘made in New Zealand’ pieces. I’ve just built my own workshop in Wellington and am still keen to build more things. I like it. I like the DIY mentality – everybody has a project around the house and it doesn’t matter how skilled you are; you just do it. You might fail but then you can just fix it again. There’s usually a good amount of making things fit that do not really fit. Materials get reinterpreted for a new use and the project becomes a creation and a statement in itself: the serendipity of DIY.
8/06/2010 - 3/07/2010
Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia
1839 Exchanges - Jewellery by Jason Hall
Since 1998 artist Jason Hall has been questioning what it means to be Pakeha. This exhibition, curated by Damian Skinner, is about jewellery, identity and cultural exchange. It features a series of amulets created by Hall ‘for’ Frederick Edward Maning, an Irishman who arrived in Aotearoa in 1833. Hall’s works draw a parallel between the meaning of the amulet and the tension that sits at the heart of settler societies.
19/12/2009 - 21/02/2010
Rotorua Museum, New Zealand
Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry
During the Second World War, American troops in New Zealand were issued a concise guide to familiarize themselves with the country in which they were stationed. Five decades later, the Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry continues this tradition of cultural exchange, introducing a new generation of Americans to contemporary jewelry made, as the original guide put it, "deep in the heart of the south seas."
13/01/2010 - 28/02/2010
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco CA, USA
Talisman
Talismans are found in many cultures throughout the world. In this exhibition twelve contemporary New Zealand jewellery artists have made new work responding to the enduring power of the talisman. The inclusion of twelve rare and important historic talismans from Canterbury Museum's Oceanic collection highlights an exchange across times and cultures, and reinforces not only the connections between jewellery and the body, science, magic and nature, but also the idea that jewellery accrues meaning through use.
5/12/2009 - 14/02/2010
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
Areta Wilkinson: Waka Huia
Waka Huia is a treasure trove of precious jewellery, objects, and stories created by leading New Zealand jeweller Areta Wilkinson. The exhibition explores Wilkinson’s return to her spiritual home of Ngai Tahu, and reflects the cultural landscapes through which she travels. Wilkinson has developed a new element of Waka Huia for HBMAG viewers. These works adopt the tradition of carte de visite: travel photographs of family and loved ones. Wilkinson’s pictorial devices relate through whakapapa and legend, unlocking deeper narratives for the objects of Waka Huia. It is an exciting time to be working with Areta Wilkinson, one of this country’s leading Maori artists, who is fresh from receiving one of New Zealand’s most prestigious awards for contemporary jewellery – The New Dowse Gold Award.
17/10/2009 - 14/03/2010
Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery, Napier, New Zealand
Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry
During the Second World War, American troops in New Zealand were issued a concise guide to familiarize themselves with the country in which they were stationed. Five decades later, the Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry continues this tradition of cultural exchange, introducing a new generation of Americans to contemporary jewelry made, as the original guide put it, "deep in the heart of the south seas."
13/01/2010 - 28/02/2010
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco CA, USA
Made in Aotearoa: Jewellery by Alan Preston
This exhibition showcases one of New Zealand’s greatest artisans, whose desire to create a “jewellery of this place” saw him spearhead a movement in favour of materials from Aotearoa and the Pacific. In the late 1970s Alan Preston abandoned western jewellery making traditions in favour of locally found materials and techniques. From delicate shell necklaces to politically charged sovereignty badges, Preston began crafting beautiful objects with symbolic meaning. The exhibition features some of his most riveting work, much of it influenced and discovered between the tides and inspired by artefacts at Auckland Museum.
7/03/2009 - 31/05/2009
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Pacific
Ho‘olaulole: The Joy of Wearable Art
Inspired by Maori artist-in-residence Donna Campbell and coordinated by Hawaiian artist Maile Andrade, this exhibition features full body adornment (from clothing to jewelry) by Native Hawaiian visual art students and some of the most cutting-edge artists of today.
13/11/2009 - 18/04/2010
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, USA