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Makers Move has been invited to Lisbon for the 2nd Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial with the themes “Political jewellery and jewellery of power”. The event will be inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Carnations’ Revolution that ended 48 years of dictatorship in Portugal and opened the way to the end of the colonial wars that had been raging for 13 years and to the independence of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa.
This time in Lisbon, to mark 50 years of Portuguese democracy, Makers Move will take the street again, engaging with people in a conversation about freedom. Through the use of thin metal wire, the exchange will manifest in 3D abstract elaborations of the concept Freedom, and then assembled into a chain of reflections – ‘freedom abstractions’, to be exhibited at the Calheta Palace.
The association Makers Move has initiated the artist group Awn, which brings together five jewellers from different corners of the world, Josephine Winther (DK), Marie Rimmen (DK), Ruth Gilmour (SCT/DK), Kathleen Reilly (SCT/J) and Gitte Nygaard (DK/NL).
From the 28th of September till 1st of October 2023, during the event Smykkernes By organized by the Danish Goldsmith guild, which is running under the theme of 'connect', we are developing an exhibit of jewellery and body-related objects under the theme of 'growth'. Through this exchange, we will explore new ways of working together, adapting and interacting to challenge our individual practices to produce work that responds to and reflects on our current situations.
Makers Move exhibit the mobile workshop and work at:
MAKK – MUSEUM FÜR ANGEWANDTE KUNST KÖLN, 22 December 2020 – 18 April 2021
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS COLOGNE
An der Rechtschule 7 50667 Köln
And at:
Staatliche Antikensammlungen, 10 Marts – 14 June 2020
Königsplatz 1 80333 München
Jewellery as a Medium of Exchange, at Bard Graduate Center, Friday, November 22nd 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm, 2019.
On invitation from Bard Graduate Center and as part of NYC Jewelry Week, we will do a talk and have a pop-up exhibition showing Makers Move’s archive. At BGC we will discuss our project Makers Move, and share ideas about how exchange reflects our relationship to objects, jewellery, and each other.
Bard Graduate Center
Lecture Hall
38 West 86th Street
New York, NY
Link; bgc.bard.edu
The event is a part of; nycjewelryweek.com
With support from the; Danish Arts Foundation
Rian Designmuseum, Falkenberg in Sweeden, 2019.
Makers Move have pumped and polished the bike and we are ready to be on the road again. First stop is Rian Designmuseum in Falkenberg Saturday October 19th, where we will give a talk about our project at 13:15.
Pecha Kucha talk during the symposium Jewellery Matters in The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam on the 16th of November 2017.
Gitte will do a pecha kucha talk about Makers Move during the symposium Jewellery Matters in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/jewellery-matters
The talk will be on the 16th at 16:00.
The book Makers Move Matter will be presented from 17—11 until 19—11—2017 during Publishing Jewellery Books, talks, and drinks – hosted by San Serriffe https://www.facebook.com/San.Serriffe/ Amsterdam Opening Hours: Thu-Sat, 13:00-19:00.
See more on http://www.current-obsession.com/obse…/publishing-jewellery/
Chrome Yellow Books will promote our book Makers Move Matter during Schmuck, 8 – 13 March 2017, Fairground Messe Munchen, hall B1.
On Saturday the 11th of March Makers Move will make a short presentation of our project and new book ‘Makers Move Matter’ on action Stage between 16.10-16.30 (just before the TALENTE price).
Chrome Yellow Books will promote our book Makers Move Matter during Collect, 2 – 6 February 2017.
The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects at the Saatchi Gallery in London's King's Road London SW3 4R.
Makers Move Matter book launch on November the 4th 2016.
We are happy to announce that the book ‘Makers Move Matter’ is finished. It’s a documentation of our work since 2012, and some of the encounters we had with people on the road and their stories. Four writers have contributed their ideas about material culture, the relevance and importance of tangible objects and jewellery as a ‘dynamic’ medium, and the human and powerful qualities of making things.
Thanks to Ayelet Yanai for the graphic work which has transformed the book into a beautiful object. To Adriel for his correction reading, and to the text contributors Louise Mazanti, Hans Stofer, Inger Sjørslev and Morten Skriver.
Needles to say – the book is a relevant object to have in your hands!
The book will be launched on November 4th in Gallery Goldfingers during http://boilingpot.dk. For the time being the book can be purchased directly via mail@makersmove.com for € 25 exclusive postal cost.
Makers Move is invited to EdgeBorderGaps in Sydney, Australia from the 3rd of July till 14th of July, 2015.
During the event Makers Move will be working in the streets on the 5th and 6 of July, and giving a talk at the JMGA conference on the 12th of July. There will be an overview of the Makers Move project at the SCA Galleries, Sydney College of Arts, from the 9th of July till 1st of August.
From the 17th till the 23rd of October 2014 Makers Move are invited to Dongyang, China.
WCC (world crafts council) has invited Makers Move to present our project during the Golden Jubilee Summit.
In August 2014, Makers Move is invited to participate with its mobile workshop during a cultural meeting in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark. The cultural summit (Kulturmødet) is new stage for discussing arts and culture in Denmark.
Makers Move invited to 'Kulturkalaset' in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The 16th of August Makers Move and the mobile workshop will be on three locations during 'Upmarket' in Gothenburg.
Makers Move is invited by 'Röhsska Museum', 'Upmarket', 'Hnoss Initiative' and 'New Adventures in Jewellery'.
Makers Move in Cape Town.
The Danish Agency for Culture has invited Makers Move together with 5 other designers to represent Danish Crafts and Design during the event World Design Capital 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.
From the WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2014 webpage;
World Design Capital Cape Town is about design in its broadest sense, including designing better cities for people. The WDC Cape Town 2014 programme promotes design-thinking as an innovative andeffective means to solving the various issues faced by modern society. Cape Town will use World Design Capital 2014to highlight the creativity of our city, country and continent through a year-long programme of design-ocused events, exhibitions, projects and initiatives.
VISION. Our vision is to transform Cape Town through design into a sustainable, productive African city, bridging historic divides and building social and economic inclusion.
Makers Move go Paris.
Between the 15th and 30th of September 2013, Makers Move expanded their ‘base’ and next to the mobile workshop joined forces with Amandine Meunier, in the kiosk at Place Palais Royal in Paris during the Circit Bijoux events.
Have a look at our publications – a new one is out Makers Move go Paris /3.
Makers Move CPH /1 , Selected guests /2 & Makers Move go Paris /3.
You can order the publication by sending a mail to mail@makersmove.com, each publication costs 10€ ex postage.
Makers Move won the Crafts and Design Biennale Prize june the 28th 2013 in Copenhagen.
" Makers Move is a ground-breaking project in jewellery art. In a simple move, Gitte Nygaard and Josephine Winther focus on an aspect of jewellery that we often neglect - the personal and relational aspect - and the meanings that emerge in the exchange between object and wearer over time, and which often have profound symbolic layers. Here are layers that reach far beyond the actual value of the jewellery and beyond what we see when jewellery is worn or exhibited. Layers that can incorporate past and present, wearer and giver, stages and places in life" (From presentation text by Louise Manzanti )
Makers Move is nominated for the Biennale Prisen 2013. The Biennale exhibition will begin the 29th of june and take place in "Rundetårn" in Copenhagen.
The Danish Arts Foundation Crafts and Design Committee have awarded a prize to the jewelry project Makers Move.
Prize motivation:
“In Makers Move, the two jewelers in an exemplary manner combine a number of interesting aspects of making jewelry, wearing jewelry and communicating through jewelry. The project is both very simple and very complex. It is fun and unpretentious, while at the same time it is both serious and ambitious. When the two jewelers on their quirky cargo bike set up their workshop at selected locations and extend an invitation to the public to engage in a dialogue, you clearly sense that Makers Move is the real thing − not just a publicity stunt, but a serious exchange of experiences between customer and artist.
The two jewelers not only assume the role of anthropologists and facilitators of people’s stories about jewelry − they also have something at stake themselves, as they offer passers-by to make casts of their jewelry in a kind of “give and take” exchange. The jewelry is copied on the spot and the result is beautiful, embossed pewter coins or amulets, coarse but with character.
One attraction is the fundamental fascination in watching skilled craftsmen work, but there is not much showing off in this open workshop. Instead, there is an attractive crackpot or DIY atmosphere, which feels inviting and inclusive and is therefore fully in line with the whole idea behind the project.
Although the small workshop is primitive, everything has been thought out with an inspiring care and a lot of attention to detail in the design. Even in bad weather it is fully functional. And of course, the communication and media aspect is well thought out, for example in the form of the website www.makersmove.com. Quite simply, the idea behind Makers Move and the reality of the project are in perfect unison. The Committee for Crafts and Design is looking forward to seeing the two jewelers in their work clothes on their quirky cargo bike out and about in the city next time they have the chance.”