OPENING TUESDAY 31 JULY 6-8PM

JOYAVIVA
LIVE JEWELLERY FROM ACROSS THE PACIFIC 
31 July – 31 August 2012

Curated by Kevin Murray, Joyaviva: Live Jewellery from across the Pacific is an exhibition of beautiful, potent objects that recover the power of jewellery in our world.
 
Made by a new wave of jewellers from Australia, New Zealand and Chile, each of the pieces on display is ‘alive’ as a device for sharing hopes and responding to our fears – ranging from threat of earthquakes to success in a school exam. Created from diverse materials, these objects link people together – transforming private wishes into shared stories.

Melissa Cameron, Jill Hermans, Caz Guiney, Maryann Talia Pau, Jin ah Jo, Blanche Tilden, Alice Whish (Australia)
Jacqui Chan, Ilse-Marie Erl, Sarah Read, Gina Ropiha, Areta Wilkinson, Matthew Wilson, Katheryn Yeats (Aotearoa / New Zealand)
Guillermina Atunez, Francisco Ceppi, Analya Cespedes, Carolina Hornauer, Massiel Mariel, Angela Cura Mendes, Valentina Rosenthal, WALKA STUDIO (Chile)

Visit www.joyaviva.net to learn more about the objects, their creators and hosts.

UTS GALLERY
Level 4, Peter Johnson Building, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
Open Monday – Friday 12-6pm

www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au

IMAGE:  Jacqui Chan Brooch from Host A Brooch in action, 2011, cable, silver

Joyaviva: Live Jewellery from across the Pacific was shown at RMIT in Feb 2012. It will be touring to Objectspace Auckland (NZ), Santiago and Valparaiso (Chile), Jalsuri Foundation (Bolivia) and Mexico City, Mexico
Joyaviva is a project associated with the Ethical Design Laboratory, a research area of RMIT Centre for Design. Supported by the Council on Australia Latin America Relations and Creative NZ

UTS Gallery supported by Oyster Bay Wines and Coopers. Media Partner: 2ser