Lin Cheung, "Delayed Reactions - Still confused", 2019, Lapis lazuli, gold
MASTERCLASS: HOPE
Lin Cheung (UK)
June 22–26, 10am–17pm
(Saturday 14pm–17pm)
The Masterclasses will be in English with translation into Portuguese
“Hope” is powerful. In today’s climate, hope is being tested more than ever. Hope often follows periods of adversity, tragedy and during times of great upheaval and uncertainty. Hope can also be neutral, quiet, humorous, underestimated – feeling hopeful is so hardwired into every part of our being that despite our contemporary world view of spectacular pessimism, I believe our default human mode is one of optimism, and hope can show itself in many and varied ways.
Participants will explore though thinking and making, the notion of hope as an imaginative and creative process in everyday and ordinary situations. Join me on a small but not insignificant journey on what it might mean to be hopeful through the context and making of jewellery.
LIN CHEUNG Underpinned by a detailed knowledge of materials and processes, Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition. She sees jewellery as both creative output and a point of reference and inspiration, frequently making work as a result of this self-reference to jewellery. Lin describes having a broad reverence of all jewellery as a healthy way to understand and explore a vast and diverse subject that loyally sticks close to its archetypal roots but also has the impressive ability to morph and move with the times. Her jewellery output over the past decade is almost exclusively gemstone carving, a material and process discovered by accident but has since become a strong basis for making and conceptualising ideas. The exclusive use of stone brings new challenges and fresh approaches to on-going and recurrent themes such as reinventing and re-presenting some of the jewellery items we own and wear and how a freer sense of adornment can be achieved. Lin has won several awards for her work including The Arts Foundation Award for Jewellery in 2001 and The Herbert Hofmann Prize in 2018. She was a finalist for the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017 and is the 2018 recipient of The Françoise van den Bosch Award.
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Podcasts:
Material Matters – Stone, interviewed by Grant Gibson
Radio:
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Craft Prize 2017 finalist
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Manuel Vilhena, "Minhokia", 2018, Wood, gold, cotton
MASTERCLASS: JEWELLERY IN ACTION
Manuel Vilhena (PT)
June 22–26, 10am–17pm
(Saturday 14pm–17pm)
The Masterclasses will be in English with translation into Portuguese
"Jewellery in Action" is a five day workshop that promotes an active stand in society with one's work. To accomplish this, we investigate into participants'; ideas and intentions and re-frame them through the language of contemporary jewellery to bring the artist's work to the public sphere in an actively politically meaningful way.
It presents an opportunity to investigate what we really want to express and why and what for. In the process, it sheds light into allegiances, values and commitments to the world at large.
Participants will be engaged in group discussions, self-reflective exercises, hands-on making, and will refine their aesthetics and conceptual congruence trough experimentation and information exchange with other participants.
MANUEL VILHENA craftsman, teacher, contemporary jeweler, adult educator, chef and bicycle mechanic - not necessarily in that order, he was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in the late 60s and started making jewellery in his teens, learning from master artisans in Brazil. He completed his training as a classical goldsmith in Portugal in 1989 and worked for many years in Italy in a small family workshop. He studied Contemporary Jewelery in Cologne, Germany, with Prof. Skubic, and at the Royal College of Art, London, with Prof. Watkins, where he completed his master's degree in 1998. Since graduating, he has taught extensively at educational institutions around the world, including the Royal College of Art, London; Hiko Mizuno College, Tokyo; Silpakorn University, Bangkok; AR.CO., Lisbon, Alpe-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Shenkar College, Tel-Aviv and Alchimia Jewellery School, Florence, where he was senior lecturer for six years. He was a workshop leader at the Salzburg Summer Academy for two years and a professor at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo for four years, working there for a total of eight years. His work is exhibited all over the world and can be seen in several books on Contemporary Jewellery and in some permanent public collections, including those of the Danner Rotunde, Munich, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the MUDE Design Museum, Lisbon, the Swiss National Museum, among some others. Since 2015, Manuel has dedicated himself mainly to educational projects and in 2019 completed his Master's in Adult Education. He works all over the world, aiming to develop people's autonomy, critical thinking, social praxis and creative potential. He is an entertaining speaker and much of what he says is true.
Documentaries:
RTP: Jewelry Why Do I Want You?
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