Exhibitions that were: 2015

Of the exhibitions during 2015 that I was able to visit and write about, my top two are:

• Emma Fielden ‘Infinity‘ @ Courtesy of the Artist Studio
  & Emma Fielden ‘Iota‘ @ Gallery Funaki
  

  photograph taken with gallery permission

• Nicole Polentas ‘Reinventing a Sense of Place. Crete and the Jewellery Object‘ @ RMIT School of Art Gallery
  

  exhibition installation

Many of the exhibitions were part of the excellent jewellery happening ‘Radiant Pavilion‘.

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All the other exhibitions I’ve written about in 2015 (in chronological order):

• ‘Fresh! 2015‘ @ Craft
• Laura Potter ‘Craft Samples‘ @ Personal Space Project
• Maureen Faye-Chauhan ‘Concurrence‘ @ Gallery Funaki
• Melissa Cameron ‘Object Evolution‘ @ Bini Gallery
• Katherine Bowman ‘My Assemblages‘ @ Milly Sleeping
• Anna Davern ‘Impressa‘ @ e.g.etal
• Patrícia Correia Domingues & Sara Gackowska ‘Surfacing’ @ Gallery Funaki
• ‘Victorian Craft Award‘ @ Craft
• ‘Victorian Craft Award‘ @ 45downstairs
• ‘Small‘ & ‘paper_plastic_metal_stone‘ @ Black Finch
• Sim Luttin ‘It’s Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn‘ @ The Snug Space
• ‘Wondernamel 2015‘ @ First Site Gallery
• ‘Around the Table‘ @ First Site Gallery
• ‘Figurative Impressions‘ @ RMIT School of Art Gallery
• ‘Occupy Crossley St‘ & ‘Theatre of Detail‘
• ‘Vessel – permeable subject‘ @ Hill of Content Bookshop
• Kim Victoria Wearne ‘Orogeny‘ @ Pieces of Eight
• Warwick Freeman ‘Prime‘ @ Gallery Funaki
• Anna Davern ‘The Golden Land of the Sunny South‘ @ e.g.etal
• ‘Go, said the bird‘ @ fortyfivedownstairs
• ‘Electric‘ @ Craft
• ‘2015 Contemporary Australian Silver & Metalwork Award‘ @ Castlemaine Art Gallery

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Also:

• Exhibitions that were: 2014
• Exhibitions that were: 2013
• Exhibitions that were: 2012
• Exhibitions that were: 2009-2012
• Exhibitions that were: 2010

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Metal price update

My last update was a little over five months ago (gold only about four months ago) … let’s see …

1. Gold per gram in A$, over 2yrs : go buy!!! well, make your own decision … but it’s close to the lowest it’s been all year; I have no idea whether it’ll go down further or go up .. if I knew that I wouldn’t be working my days in an office

as at 9th December 2015

2. Gold per gram in US$, over 2yrs : the difference to the above graph will be due to the A$/US$ exchange rate; this is quite a drop over the year over close to 25% from high to low over the year …

at 9th December 2015

3. Gold per gram in US$, over 10yrs : looking over a longer period to put it in context …

at 9th December 2015

4. Gold per gram in A$, over 10yrs : over the same 10 year period ; interesting to see when the exchange rate turned against us (around 2012)

at 9th December 2015

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2. Silver per kilogram in A$ : I’d say the latest drop, as it lines up with the gold price drop, may be cross-market (all metals)

at 9th December 2015

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… previous metal price update: 19 June 2015 … and gold 09 August 2015

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Oh dear Pantone

Is it just me, or are Pantone colours for 2016 just a bit …. erm …. ?

from Pantone website; click on image for original source

I don’t mind the colours themselves. Actually I quite like them.

Though I mind the justification of their selection (the first time Pantone has selected two colours as ‘colour of the year’).

“The prevalent combination of Rose Quartz and Serenity also challenges traditional perceptions of color association.

In many parts of the world we are experiencing a gender blur as it relates to fashion, which has in turn impacted color trends throughout all other areas of design. This more unilateral approach to color is coinciding with societal movements toward gender equality and fluidity, the consumer’s increased comfort with using color as a form of expression, a generation that has less concern about being typecast or judged and an open exchange of digital information that has opened our eyes to different approaches to color usage.”

Really? Are Pantone not simply reinforcing ‘traditional perceptions’ by choosing these two to represent ‘gender’? Or is it just me, and my ‘traditional perceptions’ are getting in the way?