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Jewellery Techniques Series
Midland Junction Arts Centre – Workshop Over two days learn specific tools and techniques to turn scrap copper and plastics into unique wearable jewels. In the first session you will learn to strip copper electrical wire from its plastic sheath and then recycle it to make your own jewellery. You will learn cold forming techniques…
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AOTM x Sick AF
Oh yeah, it’s time! TOMORROW NIGHT, 27th of Feb 2026, Sick AF the touring exhibition will be launched in Kepa Kurl / Esperance at the Cannery Arts Centre. The show extends all the way until March 28, and in that interval I’m going to head down for the artist talk Making Through Illness on Thu,…
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Melbourne Art Fair!
Late notice, I know, but… Alta Forma is part of FUTUREOBJEKT at Melbourne Art Fair! Alta Forma is thrilled to present Roseanne Bartley, Sam Blomley and Gilda Jones, Melissa Cameron, Katie Collins, Debris Facility Pty Ltd, Eli Giannini, Peta Kruger, Mascha Moje, Yongping Ren, Audrey Tan, Anna Varendorff, Raewyn Walsh, Benjamin Woods, Danni Schwaag, Rosy…
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Jewellery TV
Hey there reader, it’s a very occasional YouTube roundup. I have Adam Savage first, with a bunch of jeweller-related material in his 2025 end-of-year roundup. Starting at 11m40sec but especially at the end of this vid (23m42s) he was talking in praise of what he calls a piercing (but we all know as a jewellers’)…
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Happy 2026 🙂
Hello! We’ve made it though the back end of ’25 and into a new year, with global shenanigans barrelling on (oohhh, barrelling, like oil?) at a pace that 2020 and our then content-starved senses couldn’t have ever fathomed. For those regular onlookers, you’ll note that usually I’ll post a Solsticefest greeting in time for the…
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open studio 2025
Y’all, we did it, we’re in! Please come help us celebrate the launch of the new house and studio, and the good friends who made it all happen. Katherine and Marco of vittinoAshe – our architects – will be around to talk house, I’ll be upstairs with studio deputy Susannah chatting art and jewellery, while…
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…moving
Y’all. It’s happening. Some of you have pieces of recycled jarrah that I’ve been passing around the country; these are jewellery-scale offcuts from our build. THE build, which has been going since March 2022. The build that is just about done. The build of the house and studio that has a lot of built-in furniture…
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IOTA Craft Co-lab Symposium
Team! The IOTA Curatorium has been assembled, and they are CURRENTLY IN BOORLOO (Perth) checking out the neighbourhood, in advance of making some great calls as to who gets into the next Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in 2027. If you want the chance to meet the team – get on the ground floor, as they…
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Midland Workshop Series
Do your job well enough and they might give you more time to have more fun! Head over to Insta to see the full promo vid of what we’re getting up to. Are you the magpie always collecting shiny things on the street? Do you have a collection of beautiful finds in your house that…
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I ♥ ADC
ADC has just staged THE Helen Britton retrospective, endowing her with the Master Maker – Living Treasure of Australian Craft title, the latest in the series. That show, I’m reliably informed, will travel around the country, so I’m not as sad as I could be that I’m heading over just DAYS after it has been…
