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USE

Use a juried exhibition by the members of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia (Queensland Chapter) Inc. Thematically focused on tools and processes, Use explores the conceptual breadth and layers of meaning that operate within this theme for contemporary jewellery practitioners and metalsmiths. At the heart of any artisan's practice, tools and processes provide and interesting and reflexive subject matter and point of entry into contemporary jewellery and small objects practices.

Exhibiting Artists: Helen Bird, Jac Dyson, Lois Hayes, Catherine Hunter, Alicia Lane, Catherine Large, Samuel Lintern, Andy Lowrie, Nellie Peoples, Clare Poppi, Kierra-Jay Power, Paola Raggo, Elizabeth Shaw, Katie Stormonth, Rebecca Ward, Helen Wyatt and Xiaohui Yang.

USE : A juried exhibition by the members of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Queensland (ESSAY)
By Liam Bryan-Brown

"The tools that fill the drawers and cupboards of a jeweller’s bench are each imbued with the memories of their use. As hammers swing to shape and mark, so to are they shaped and marked by the materials subject to their blow. Their potential to create is inherent but impotent, unlocked by the skill and drive of the artisan who wields them. " (Bryan-Brown, L  2018, pg 1).
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Tour Dates (2018 - 2021)

Redland Art Gallery, QLD: 25 January – 3 March 2019
Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW: 15 March – 19 May 2019
Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, QLD: 17 June – 29 July 2019
Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD: 2 August – 8 September 2019
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD: 1 October – 17 November 2019
Banana Shire Regional Art Gallery, QLD: 25 November 2019 – 28 January 2020
New England Regional Art Gallery, NSW: 7 February – 3 May 2020
Hurstville Museum & Gallery, NSW: 1 August – 25 October 2020
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, SA: 11 December 2020 – 31 January 2021
Mundubbera Regional Art Gallery, QLD: 1 May – 28 June 2021


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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
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This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
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Proudly supported by Museums
and Galleries Queensland

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Proudly supported by Griffith University
Queensland College of Art


USE: FILM

This video was commissioned by M&G QLD, supported by the Australian Government, Visions of Australia. It was filmed at the Jewellery and Small Objects studio, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

USE: Hurstville Curator and Artist Talk Session

Renee Porter (Hurstville Museum and Gallery’s Curator) facilitates a discussion of the exhibition between  Lisa Bryan-Brown (USE exhibition Curator), Elizabeth Shaw and Clare Poppi (exhibiting  jewellers).

Filmed as a public program in partnership with M&G QLD while the exhibition was on display at Hurstville Museum and Gallery in October 2020.

Review of Use: Queensland Contemporary Jewellery
by Vivien Bedwell

Click here to read Vivien Bedwell's review for Garland Magazine on the Use exhibition.

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    • 2021 - Pin swap
    • 2020 - Pin Swap
    • 2020 - Movement and Motion
    • 2020 - Clasped
    • 2020 - Sound On!
    • 2020 - Show Us Your Pins
    • 2019 - State of Shine
    • 2019 - Pinswap
    • 2018-2021 - USE
    • 2018 - Pinswap
    • 2017 - Pinswap
    • 2017 - FIVE
    • 2017 - LOOP
    • 2017 - Paper Moon Cafe: Pop Up Shop
    • 2016 - Trace
    • 2016 - Pin Swap
    • 2016 - Worn & Weathered
    • 2015 - Pendulum
    • 2015 - Pin Swap
    • 2015 - Lux Lumens
    • 2014 - Wild Waters
    • 2014 - Greensmith
    • 2013 - Confluence Influence
    • 2012 - 103 Pendants
    • 2012 - 100% Recycled
    • 2012 - In The Now
    • 2011 - Boxed In Revisited
    • 2011 - Inundation
    • 2010 - Spectrum
    • 2009/10 - Heat Sweat Shimmer
    • 2009 - Fragile Nature
    • 2008/09 - Ornamentomology
    • 2008 - Rubber
    • 2007 - Fabulous Foam
  • CV
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