Exhibitions that were: 2014

Again, this year has been a little tricky with energy levels … though I continue to improve and that makes me happy.

Of the exhibitions I wrote about, my top three are (really hard to choose!):

• Caz Guiney @ Personal Space Project, February
  this was my first review-from-afar, and I adored these pieces a great deal
  

  exhibition media; click on image for original source; used with permission

• Helen Britton ‘pairs of pieces‘ @ Gallery Funaki, May
  given my recent acquisition, I don’t think I need to tell you how I enjoyed this one!
  

  photograph taken with permission

• Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery @ Gallery Funaki, August
  an astounding collection of beautiful pieces
  

  photograph taken with gallery permission

And of course I cannot have this listing exclude the blockbuster
‘A Fine Possession: Jewellery and Identity‘ @ Powerhouse Museum

photography under gallery conditions; no flash

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All the other exhibitions I’ve written about in 2014 (in chronological order):

• ‘Gold and the Incas‘ @ National Gallery of Australia
• ‘Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia‘ @ National Library of Australia
• ‘PROJECT: Jewellery for T-shirts‘ @ Gallery Funaki
• Melbourne Now ‘Contemporary Jewellery‘ @ NGV
• Peaches + Keen ‘Botanical Calamity‘ @ Modern Times
• ‘Fresh!‘ @ Craft
• ‘StArt Up: Top Arts 2014‘ @ NGV
• Natalia Milosz-Piekarska ‘Immortal Morsels‘ @ Pieces of Eight
• Karl Fritsch ‘yodel‘ @ Gallery Funaki
• Kirsten Haydon ‘Ice storeroom‘ @ Craft
• ‘Transplantation‘ @ Craft
• Vito Bila ‘Unseamly Vessels‘ @ Craft
• Bin Dixon-Ward ‘Grids‘ @ Craft
• Svenja John ‘Assembly‘ @ Gallery Funaki
• ‘National Contemporary Jewellery Award 2014‘ @ COTA
• NMIT graduates ‘Mettle‘ @ Red Gallery
• RMIT Honours ‘Hey Handsome‘ @ First Site Gallery
• RMIT graduates ‘Greater Than, Less Than‘ @ RMIT

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Also:

• Exhibitions that were: 2013
• Exhibitions that were: 2012
• Exhibitions that were: 2009-2012
• Exhibitions that were: 2010

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