Involution: Making Jewellery, Creating Change 2024

19th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australian national biennial conference.

The Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia have convened biennially since 1980 to celebrate, educate and showcase contemporary jewellery in the region. The Theme; “Involution: Making Jewellery, Creating Change” captures the entangled pushing and pulling of organisms constantly inventing new ways to live with, and alongside one another. As creatives, we grow and develop within our fast-changing surrounds; we strive to find meaning, construct metaphor, seek comfort, push boundaries, develop narratives and explore relationships. Through our connections we seek to wander outside and beyond our prior limits.

The Conference will bring together practitioners, educators and students, collectors, critics and cultural theorists for two days of discussion, debate, interaction and the exchange of ideas in the Cultural centre of Perth’s CBD. Workshops and exhibitions will run either side of the event over a range of venues.

Submissions are now open for Conference papers, Workshops and Exhibitions addressing the above themes.

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