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About Jack Cunningham
Jack Cunningham is an academic and contemporary studio jeweller whose particular interest is narrative jewellery, being that which tells a story or makes a statement through visual imagery.
Cunningham completed a practice-based PhD at The Glasgow School of Art in 2007, researching the synergy between ethnographic factors and the creative outcomes of contemporary narrative jewellers. He investigated the significance and influence of environment on the creative individual and how these factors impact on the creative process.
image: Joseph James Photography / James Aylin Design |
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Jack Cunningham at Star Space, Shanghai
Star Space is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to the promotion of avant-garde art in an international context. It is a strategic extension of AIVA (Academy of International Visual Arts) in 2008 as a training ground for art practice. It aims to foster new perspectives and expertise of art by bringing to China high quality international contemporary art.
To Strangers - Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition
8 March— 24 April 2009
Private View: Saturday 7 March 2009, 18:00—20:00
Artist Talk: Sunday 8 March 2009, 14:00—16:00
Curator: Jiang Jiehong |
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Makers Statement
I am motivated by the construct of our relationship with family, place, of recollection and memory, life and death. I am also interested in the dialogue that is consequently established between the maker – the originator of the artefacts statement, the wearer – the vehicle by which the work is seen, and the viewer – the audience who thereafter engages with the work.
I work exclusively with the brooch form to explore these personal narrative themes, which are sourced during numerous visits to Japan and time spent between homes in Glasgow and Paris.
A piece of jewellery tells us something of the designer maker, who may otherwise remain quite anonymous. It indicates a conscious decision making by the wearer, who then becomes the vehicle whereby a wider audience views the work. For the wearer therefore, there exists the potential to interpret the work through a personal frame of reference. The desire of the wearer to make his or her own personal statement is significant, and enables the wearer to become part of this process of communication with a wider audience. A triangular relationship is formed, maker-wearer-viewer.
Jack Cunningham, Birmingham City University.
Head of the School of Jewellery, 2009
© All material copyright 2007 |
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| Dr. Jack Cunningham - Curriculum Vite 2009 |
| 1990-2004 |
Lecturer, The Glagow School of Art. |
| 2005-2008 |
Head of Department, Silversmithing & Jewellery, Glasgow School of Art. |
| 2008- |
Head of the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. |
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| Education |
| 1971-72 |
Glasgow College of Building – Interior Design. |
| 1972-76 |
B.A. - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. |
| 1988-89 |
Teaching Certificate -
Jordanhill College of Education (Strathclyde University). |
| 2001-07 |
Ph.D. The Glasgow School of Art. |
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| Recent Awards |
| 2005 |
The Royal Netherlands Embassy |
| 2004 |
The Scottish Arts Council, Lottery Funding |
| 2003 |
The Edinburgh Assay Office, Goldsmiths Hall |
| 2003 |
The Glasgow School of Art Research Award (MWV) |
| 2001 |
The Glasgow School of Art Research Award (V&A London) |
| 2000 |
Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2000 (Jewellery - Shortlist Nominee) |
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| Curator |
| 2005 |
Maker-Wearer-Viewer
Exhibition & Symposium |
| 2005 |
Maker-Wearer-Viewer
Contemporary European Narrative Jewellery. |
| Touring |
The Glasgow School of Art,
The Scottish Gallery,
Galerie Marzee.
Catalogue ISBN: 0 901904 59 7 |
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| Recent Solo Exhibitions |
| 2009 |
To Strangers – Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition
(joint exhibition with Professor Teng Fei, CAFA, Beijing)
Star Space Shanghai, 4th F, 66 North Shaanxi Road
Shanghai 200041 |
| 2007 |
Jack Cunningham – Contemporary Narrative Jewellery
Atrium Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art |
2003-4
Touring |
Jack Cunningham – On the Line
Arai Atelier Gallery, Tokyo
Hélène Porée Galerie, Paris
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Catalogue: isbn 0 901 904 295 |
2003
Touring |
Brooching the Subject
The Travelling Gallery, Scotland |
| 2001 |
Jack Cunningham
Crafts Council Gallery at the V&A Museum, London |
2000
Touring |
Journey
The Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia. (July-Sept 2000). |
| 2000 |
Journey - Jack Cunningham Jewellery Installation.
The Lighthouse, Glasgow (January-March).
Catalogue isbn-0901904864 |
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| Recent Group Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
Masters & Protégés
Itami Museum, Itami & Mikimoto Museum, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 2008 |
Collect
The Scottish Gallery, V&A Museum, London. |
| 2007 |
Gold and Silver Jewellery:
The Transformation of a Tradition in the Twentieth Century
The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Organised by The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. |
2007
Touring |
The Cutting Edge
NMS, Chambers Street, Edinburgh |
2005
Touring |
Maker-Wearer-Viewer
The Glasgow School of Art |
| 2005 |
Collect
The Scottish Gallery, V&A Museum, London. |
2003
Touring |
Chess
Velvet da Vinci at SNAG, San Francisco. (Touring USA & UK) |
| 2002 |
Pearltalk
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. |
| 2002 |
The Scottish Gallery @ SOFA
SOFA
Chicago, USA. |
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| Material Copyright Jack Cunningham 2007-2008 |