Shelley Norton 
Conversations

The concept that underpins Shelley Norton’s work is the notion of meaning and how this fascinating production in turn influences us in our daily existence.  
Jewellery for Norton participates in a visual grammar, enhancing or disrupting the vast unspoken, both knowingly and unintentionally.  A rich medium to use in this exploration. 
26 March – 09 April 
Opening 6:15pm, 27 March, G_Space Gallery, NMIT, Nile Street, Nelson
Open Monday – Friday 9 – 5, Saturday – Sunday 10 – 1

Otago Polytechnic / Dunedin School of Art 
By degree: works from the Otago Polytechnic jewellery graduate collection
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​Celebrating the School’s 150th anniversary, this exhibition provides a small slice of the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Art Collection, as works of significance, represented through the decades. The extensive collection comprises over 1600 catalogued works dating to the early 1970s following amalgamation with the Otago Polytechnic. Works from the Jewellery studio find their way into the collection with new accessions acquired every year through donations or purchases either from staff, artists’ in residence or students. 

26 March – 14 April 
Nelson Provincial Museum windows, cnr Trafalgar and Hardy Street
The end of year SITE exhibitions offer a prime opportunity to support our emerging artists. As a valued asset, the art collection adorns the student, staff and public environments of the Polytechnic and supports learning as a teaching tool. As of this year the Dunedin school of Art is the only New Zealand institution able to offer dedicated studies in contemporary jewellery through to a Master of Fine Arts level. An online catalogue of the work on display is accessible via QR code, alongside some printed hardcopies available inside the museum.
 

HANDSHAKE Project CHAINreaction: HANDSHAKES at the Refinery

​HANDSHAKE project exists 10-years. 
The exhibition at Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson celebrates this milestone with 49 artists who directly and indirectly were associated with the project. They all make a HANDSHAKE by contributing to a continues necklace. Each link will be a highlight and celebrates connectivity and communication.  
HANDSHAKE is a mentoring and exhibition project with a continues progressive programme that over the years has benefited a great number of NZ emerging jewellery artists. It gave these artists extended creative energies and network opportunities. 
HANDSHAKE can be described as an experimental bridge that connects emerging artists with professional practice. Mentors came out from all over the world with a helping hand for those asking for it. The HANDSHAKE exhibitions were at national and international locations; with a couple at highly respected spaces.
Its success can be described through its collective contribution and sharing nature. 
HANDSHAKE project is funded by Creative New Zealand and managed by MAKERS 101. 
Dates: 27 March – 17 April 
Opening event: 5:30, Saturday 27 March
Venue: Refinery ArtSpace, 114 Hardy Street ​​

Project 21
​Exquisite Corpse ​

​Contemporary jewellers Kay van Dyk, Katie Pascoe and Joel Fitzwell, (collaboratively known as Project 21), have adapted the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse where each collaborator has contributed a top, middle and bottom section, without knowing what each other has made. 
The final works are assembled to create a jeweller’s Exquisite Corpse.  
Dates: 26 March – 4 April
Opening event: 5:00pm, Friday 27 March 
Venue: 18a, 18a Vanguard Street, Nelson 

Beatrice Carlson
​A Walk on the Beach 

These stones talk about seascape, but mostly, metaphorically reposition us and redefine our notion of value. Even though I use heavy solid silver, the stones are the precious part of the ring.
They represent who and where we are, they talk about New Zealand.
Venue: Suter Art Gallery, 208 Bridge 
Hours: Monday-Sunday 9:30-4:30

Gavin Hitchings
Stones of Unknowing

A retrospective exhibition by influential Nelson-based contemporary jeweller Gavin Hitchings.
​13 March - 23 May
Venue: The Suter te Aratoi o Whakatu, 208 Bridge Street
Hours: Monday-Sunday 9:30-4:30 

Red Gallery
Organic

Venue: 1 Bridge Street 
​Hours: 8.30 – 4.30 Weekdays, 9 – 2.30 Saturday

Stacey Whale 
​Brilliance

​Brilliance is an exhibition of colour and beauty showcasing Stacey Whale’s first body of work after a decade away from the bench. 

Visit Brilliance at Stacey’s newly opened jewellery shop in Nelson’s, Upper Moutere.
Dates of exhibition: 26 March - 4 April
Venue: 1381 Moutere Highway, Upper Moutere, Nelson Tasman

Hours open: 10am-4pm daily

Craig Potton jewellers 
Showing new pieces created for Nelson Jewellery Week

​Image: Hannah Sheehan
We are proud to represent the following New Zealand jewellers;
08., Neil Adcock, Jessica Aggrey, Martin de Ruyter, Warwick Freeman, Marita Green, Jade & Form, Marama Jewellery, Claire McSweeney, Hannah Sheehan, Joe Sheehan and Nick von K 
Dates: 26 March – 4 April
Venue: Craig Potton Gallery + Store, 255 Hardy Street
Hours: Monday – Friday 10:00-5:00, Saturday 10:00-3:00

Isaac Ibbotson 
​HOOPS

Isaac Ibbotson’s handcrafted gold and silver hoop earrings have been adorning ears around New Zealand since 2001. In this showcase the jeweller will be displaying his design in a range of mediums to reveal the light qualities, movement and form which have inspired its evolution. ​
Venue: Shine, 253 Hardy Street, Nelson  
Hours: Monday-Friday 10 - 5, Saturday/Sunday 10 - 4

Kelly McDonald and Victoria McIntosh
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MODIFIED             for display

MODIFIED for display, takes us inside the world of contemporary jewellers Kelly McDonald and Victoria McIntosh where the body is seen as both site and subject. 
 
“The work refers to personal spaces. All materials are deliberately chosen and inseparable from their initial meaning, functionality and symbolic charge. These objects tell the stories already partly imbedded in them, although now augmented or ridiculised, I like to call them fictionalized objects.” 
Liesbeth den Besten, 2020 
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Kelly McDonald excavates meaning from discarded domestic and industrial objects, melding the narratives of home, workshop and motherhood to explore both power and gender constructs

Victoria McIntosh stitches together contemporary jewellery, sculpture and assemblage. A collector by nature, she is drawn to found objects that carry a sense of history, whether real or imagined 

Venue: Refinery ArtSpace, Workshop Room       
​114 Hardy Street
26th Mar -  4th April