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Some things you cant touch, see or grab. But they are there. Always and everywhere. Silently invading every part of you, your everyday life and the things in it. The less you speak of it the more you have it. The more you have it the less you want and can address it. Shame is not logic, it is not the brain reacting, hardly our conscience, it's the body. It is truly and fully a physical feeling. For the first time I give myself permission to dig into all of these materials, I indulge in the styles and tastes that I've long felt forbidden for me. I wont be limited in my choices of symbols, coloration or aesthetics in ways that good taste and patriarchal structures have taught me to be. I am letting that guard down and diving in, using it in advantage for my work and my theme. I feast on fake pearls, glitter, shells and plastics. I turn towards what is considered shameful or bad taste and work with it, embrace it and elevate it. Not to show that is the new "right" but to justify for all of the times that I have turned away from it because of shame. To be a person with feelings of shame is to be a person that automatically will try to turn from itself. Shame is intimately entwined with femininity, it is silently inherited from generation to generation. It is experienced only by some bodies and not others. It is not being able to see your own value. It is the loneliest feeling in the world, but really a marker for something much bigger and deeper than one individual. It is materialized everywhere around us. It is not me, but it is not not me.

This diploma thesis addresses the practical and theoretical aspects of piercing jewellery and related accoutrements. The practical part describes the design and construction of a series of ceramic jewellery boxes for piercing jewellery. These three boxes are functional and unique jewellery in their own right. The theoretical part of this thesis examines body piercing art, piercing techniques and piercing jewellery. A visual section displays the piercing jewellery and documents the making of the jewellery boxes and their final design.

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On the base of cultural norms, it seems that it is commonly accepted that one animal is considered 'friend', while the other 'food'. Even though people's opinion may differ in regards to the world's largest animal rights organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal) (Kulkarni, 2009), the organization asks a relevant question: “ If your cat tasted like chicken would you eat her?” As I work within the contemporary art jewellery field, it is through the body, jewellery, and the conscious act of wearing it, that I would like to encourage consumers to reflect on their personal meat consumption and to connect the packaged meat to the animal it comes from: what is it that we are eating? Where does it come from? Through this essay and my work/practice, I aim to critically reflect on the different existing values between animals in our society and to inspire more conscious and well informed decisions concerning meat. This essay is a research project prior to my practical exam work at the Jewellery + Corpus Master program at Konstfack and will serve as a basis for my artistic exam work. Against this background, I look at relevant literature and case studies representative of the field of contemporary art jewellery, in order to research/address the following question in this essay: -          Is it possible to discuss complex questions within society though the media of contemporary art jewellery?  Within the field, opinions differ between art historians as well as makers; it seems that the framework of contemporary art jewellery provides the medium, on one side, with great potential to speak of issues within society, although, on the other side, the same frame work commonly hinders the medium’s ability to reach out to the general public, in order to generate a wider discussion.

XX amžiaus antroje pusėje juvelyrikai priartėjus prie kitų vaizduojamojo meno rūšių, papuošalui tapus meno kūriniu, išreiškiančiu individualią kūrėjo poziciją, ir pradėjus rengti specializuotas juvelyrikos parodas, iškilo juvelyrikos eksponavimo reikšmė. Problematiškumas slypi srities specifikoje (dažnai maži mąsteliai, brangių medžiagų naudojimas) bei santykyje su kūnu, nes dėvėjimas yra esminis papuošalo suvokimui. Todėl įprastas juvelyrikos eksponavimas stiklinėse vitrinose netenkina juvelyrikos, kuriamos postmodernaus meno principais. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti galimas meninės juvelyrikos eksponavimo strategijas pasitelkiant trumpalaikių meninės juvelyrikos parodų pavyzdžius iš Lietuvos bei užsienio nuo XX a. 8 dešimtmečio iki šių dienų. Tyrimas nėra istorinio pobūdžio: juvelyrikos parodos nėra analizuojamos chronologiniu principu ar kaip vientisas reiškinys, procesas, kuriame galima užfiksuoti tam tikrą raidą. Nagrinėjamos trumpalaikės personalinės ir grupinės juvelyrikos parodos, nes jose gali būti įgyvendinti tokie ekspoziciniai sprendimai, kurie netinkami ilgalaikėms muziejų ekspozicijoms. Tyrimu siekiama išsiaiškinti, kaip juvelyrikos eksponavimas veikia pačių kūrinių supratimą, priėmimą ir turinį, kokios skirtingos juvelyrikos eksponavimo praktikos naudojamos, koks yra žiūrovo ryšys su papuošalu parodos metu bei kaip skirtingi eksponavimo būdai lemia šį ryšį, koks žiūrovo santykis su ekspozicija. Magistrinio darbo struktūra paremta skirtingų juvelyrikos parodose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Contemporary jewellery cannot be dissociated from developments in the fine art. In the second part of the 20th century jewellery started to be considered as an art form which can express the individuality of an artist. During that time the first specialized jewellery exhibitions were held and since then the attention was drawn to the importance of how objects are displayed in the exhibition. What makes exhibiting jewellery difficult is its connection to the body - wearability is the essence of it. In addition, usually jewellery is small scale and made of precious materials. As a result, typical showcases made of glass are no longer satisfying for displaying art jewellery. The aim of this research is to analyze possible strategies of how art jewellery can be presented. The examples of temporary jewellery exhibitions, both personal and group, from Lithuania and abroad from the 1970s to the present are included. The research is not historical and based on chronology, jewellery exhibitions are not seen as a continuous phenomenon with clear evolution. Temporary exhibitions offer a possibility of to putting into practice such display solutions which would not be suitable for permanent museum displays. This paper looks into the questions such as what kind of different display strategies are used to exhibit jewellery, how the display affects the perception of the artworks, what the relation between the viewer and the jewellery work in the exhibition is, how display influences this... [to full text]

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This study investigates the jewellery industry in South Africa from about the 1920s when the industry operated as a cluster in Johannesburg, to the more contemporary period of 2003. The industrial cluster approach to industrialisation forms the theoretical background for discussing the evolution of the jewellery cluster in this period. Various factors or “turning points” influenced the course of the cluster’s development and ultimately culminated in the demise of the jewellery cluster in Johannesburg. The study pays specific attention to the role of government in first resisting and then promoting the growth of jewellery manufacturing in South Africa. In recent years the jewellery industry has been the focus of both government and private sector initiatives to enhance its competitiveness globally. The result of these initiatives is discussed in the context of the internal and external constraints that affected the industry in the past and continue to play a role in the present.

Modern jewellery making techniques can be very seductive, not least the ease with which an artist can design a piece on a computer and forego the time-consuming, and often frustrating, process of manufacture. But, the question needs to be asked: is something being lost by the artist who absents themselves from that part of the process? In this essay, I argue that such artists are subjected to a truncated creative process. Their design doesn’t come up against the limits of the material, and that of their own abilities. They aren’t forced to modify or refine their design in the face of such obstacles. By contrast, the artist with a handmade approach, such as Peter Bauhuis or Karl Fritsch, continues to have input by physically participating in the manufacture of the piece. The hurdles they must overcome in realizing their idea stimulate and extend the creative process, and the result can be a superior piece. But it doesn’t always turn out that way. The nature of the process is such that the artist can hit a brick wall and have nothing to show for their efforts other than wasted time and material. But it’s worth the risk. The increasing homogenization of culture has lead to a reaction of individuality, and a return to some old ways: the artisanal approach. Adorning one’s body with jewellery is part of a person’s attempt to define and express that individuality, and nothing can express that uniqueness like a custom, one-off piece. A handmade piece. This isn’t a new idea, of course, and it finds expression in ancient aesthetics, such as the raw beauty of wabi-sabi, right up to the work of more contemporary practitioners, whose work is discussed here.