Besides the educational exhibition which gives insight into the mind of jewellers, there also displays a purely visual beauty resulted from 2004 Japan Jewellery Art Competition. Jewellery exhibited here differ huge from the HAT, they are just as bold and vivid as they can, you’d better prepare to be dazzled.

This exhibition demonstrates the excitement, diversity and conceptual complexity of contemporary Japanese jewellery practice. Among the works, traditional western gold and silver smithing techniques and expertise sit alongside the use of traditional Japanese techniques. The makers articulately combine equally diverse materials, ranging from traditional gold and silver through to plastics and found objects.

Bedazzled invites you a journey of further remaking and rethinking, it is currently on show at Object Gallery, Surry Hills until early June.

Bedazzled: Jewellery from Australia, Japan and the UK
Date: April 23rd – June 6th, 2005
Place: Object Gallery
Address: 417 Bourke Street, Surry Hills
Tel: +61 (0)2 9361 4511
https://www.object.com.au