Calendar: February 2016

post last updated: 5th February

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Upcoming: ‘Unclasped’ @ Hellenic Museum

It’s not usual for me to write a special post to talk about an upcoming exhibition … but I like to do this for friends from my RMIT days.

Dr Nicole Polentas … yes, she’s a Doctor now! … is curating an exhibition that will shortly open at Hellenic Museum in Melbourne.

‘Unclasped: Discovering Contemporary Greek Jewellery‘ is “an exhibition of contemporary jewellery objects, bringing together and examining the practices of twenty-two artists of Greek descent currently working in Greece, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Cyprus and Australia.

The exhibition aims to provide a platform for contemporary thought in order to highlight the work of both established and emerging international Greek artists.

Exploring the connections between the manufacture and the act of wearing jewellery, the works encompass a wide variety of contemporary jewellery making techniques and mediums; expressing the diverse nature of modern jewellery practice within the Hellenic diaspora.

Exhibiting Jewellers: Aggelika Diplari, Akis Goumas, Anastasia Kandaraki, Artemis Valsamaki, Christina Karakalpaki, Constantinos Kyriacou, Danae Natsis, Demitra Thomloudis, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Efharis Alepedis, Erato Kouloubi, George Giannoutsos, Ismini Pachi, Liana Pattihis, Mala Siamptani, Maria Tsimpiskaki, Nicole Polentas, Niki Stylianou, Poly Nikolopoulou, Vicky Kanellopoulos, Vivi Touloumidi and Zeta Tsermou”

[text from Hellenic Museum site]

The exhibition will run from 6th February to 3rd April 2016, and there are many associated events such as artist floor talks.

Check out Nicole’s facebook page for progress shots of the amazing exhibition space (designed by Christopher Earl Milbourne) and events.

exhibition media

exhibition media

Get along … I expect to see you there!

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Please also see:

• Artist Profile: Nicole Polentas (May09)
• Toowoomba Contemporary Wearables 2009 (Sep09)
• ‘XAOS‘ @ Hellenic Museum (Apr10)
• her presentation as part of RMIT seminar ‘Jewellery Practice as a Site of Enquiry‘ (Aug10)
• Nicole Polentas & Christopher Earl Milbourne ‘Psychomanteum‘ @ Counihan Gallery (Oct11)
• if you search for Nicole’s name on my blog you get 12 pages of results – that’s how much I write about her and how many times she’s included in various exhibitions; the above listing includes the major solo posts
• Nicole Polentas ‘Reinventing a Sense of Place: Crete and the Jewellery Object‘ (Apr15)

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Sunset 11th January 2016

There was a great storm.
This is the colour of the sunset, facing east.

[photographs taken with my mobile, no filter, no alteration but for a little cropping]
[images not to be used without author permission]

The year that was: 2015

It’s been a relatively quiet year, blog-wise.

You’ve no doubt noticed, I’m posting less and less … it’s likely to do with not making as much any more (I still consider I’m ‘taking a break’; I haven’t given up), and something to do with not being able to see as many shows as I’d like to.

To be fair though, I did keep the solid posting-love for about four years there. The below is the number of posts written per month:

everyone loves a graph

The traffic has changed over time too … which is no doubt impacted by my posting frequency, though also by the general decline in blog reading/writing. I cannot get my statistics page to do what I want it to (ie. by month), but visits by year looks like this:

I like the other graph better

The numbers are by no means large … I like to call my little blog ‘hyper-niche’.

My stats page also tells me the top individual posts for 2015 were:

1. 13JAN13 : Short Courses in Melbourne (update) ; this is an outdated post, and the traffic numbers are so much higher than subsequent updates that it’s clear people just aren’t reading the newer information
2. 27NOV13 : Studying jewellery in Melbourne ; again, an outdated post
3. 12MAY15 : Studying jewellery in Melbourne (update) ; phew, finally some are reading the update!
4. 13JUL10 : Makers Mark Gallery news ; why on earth is this still being read?!
5. 08JUN09 : What is contemporary jewellery?

All but the third post above were old ones, probably getting more traffic due to them being popular in previous years (SEO and all). No other post written in 2015 made the top 10; the next popular 2015 post (11th on the list) was Patrícia Correia Domingues & Sara Gackowska ‘Surfacing’ @ Gallery Funaki.

That’s worth a photograph!

photograph taken with gallery permission

Thank you dear reader.