Toi Art at Te Papa – a first floor glimpse

When you’re step­ping into Te Papa’s new gal­lery space Toi Art, be pre­pared for some­thing a little dif­fer­ent from your stand­ard gal­lery exper­i­ence. Toi Art is a gal­lery space 20 years in the mak­ing, it takes over two floors of Te Papa and the new entrance gal­lery is lar­ger than any space at Te Papa. I […]

Something wonderful at The Dowse

Emma from Emma Makes kindly vis­ited and revis­ited  – Wun­der­rūma: New Zea­l­and Jew­ellery  exhib­i­tion at The Dowse  for us. Each time I return to Wun­der­rūma: New Zea­l­and Jew­ellery I find some­thing new I want to own. It began at the open­ing with Emily Valentine’s King­fish­er Brooch (2013). “Is that a bird?” said the friend I was […]

Jewels of Whitireia

On Thursday night the Annu­al 2010 Whitireia Stu­dent Con­tem­por­ary Jew­ellery Auc­tion will be held at Mighty Mighty with Nation­al Radio presenter Kim Hill con­trolling the ham­mer as auc­tion­eer. Donated con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery is being sent from all over New Zea­l­and for the event includ­ing pieces from con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery prac­ti­tion­ers Peter Deck­ers, Mat­thew McIntyre Wilson and Owen […]