KORU7

KORU workshops have always been wonderful places to get fascinated, to learn and to meet people. International teachers have guided beginners and professionals alike through intensive workshop days with different themes. 3 jewellery related workshops will be organized between 26th–28th October 2021.

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NOTE! You can participate in one workshop only. The workshops will be held in English. The maximum number of participants is 12.
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PLACE:
LAB University of Applied Sciences, Fine Art department, Lappeenranta.

THE PRICE OF THE WORKSHOPS:
350 €  / person
200 € / person  (for students and members of the Finnish Jewellery Art Association)
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The price includes the participation in one 3-day workshop and evening program.
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The price does NOT include:
- meals
- materials
- travel
- accommodation

HOW TO REGISTER
Contact: korutaideyhdistys(at)gmail.com

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There are a few seats left at Anna's and Daniela's workshop. Register now!
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Lin Cheung: Pinch Me, I must be dreaming.

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Stone is real and unreal at the same time; the impossibility of its formation is laid bare in front of us, explained through physics and seen in the geology of the land. Yet its otherworldly textures and colours is suggestive and evocative of many things, prompting us to make sense of stone in our own individual worlds.

Participants will explore a moment of realisation - somewhere between dreaming and waking - through making in a material that is notoriously slow, hard and stubbornly unique. Join me on a small journey attempting to negotiate what and how we make catch up with the lightening speed of our thoughts.
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Lin Cheung: "Pinned", brooch, 2019, rock crystal, 18ct gold and pearl pin

Lin Cheung is a jewellery artist from London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery. She is Reader in Jewellery at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Underpinned by a detailed knowledge of materials and processes, Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition.

She has won several awards for her work including the The Arts Foundation Award for Jewellery in 2001 and The Herbert Hofmann Prize in 2018. She was a finalist for the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017 and is the 2018 recipient of The Françoise van den Bosch Award.

More about Lin: cargocollective.com/lincheung
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Daniela Malev: Two sides – one story.
Pin mechanisms and brooch back design

In the field of contemporary jewellery the brooch is a very common and also much discussed form of jewellery.
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One of the special challenges of making a good brooch is to find an adequate solution for the pin which connects the piece securely to the body but goes beyond being a mere functional and invisible part of the backside. It should be an essential part of the brooch in terms of content and aesthetics.
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Mechanism and attachment of a brooch hold a tremendous potential for the design of a brooch in its entirety and need to be developed with equal importance.This workshop will initiate and encourage a conscious approach to the design of the brooch back and its mechanisms. The participants are introduced to a variety of pin mechanisms and learn how to realize them technically. They will be guided through exercises on different needle techniques and ways of thinking about what a needle can be and how it can be solved. But moreover the participant will learn and understand the integration of the brooch back and the pin mechanism into the whole creative process of making a brooch.

The workshop teaches technical skills but moreover a new way of thinking: a holistic approach to the brooch.
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Daniela Malev: Brooches

Daniela Malev is a jeweller and educator. Trained as a classical goldsmith in her hometown Dresden, Germany, she also holds a Master Craftman´s Certificate for Gold- and Silversmithing and a BA and MFA degree in Gemstone and Jewellery Design at the University of Applied Sciences Trier/Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

Her jewellery work is inspired by a deep sense of order behind all existence. She thinks of jewellery as a visual playground for asking questions or drawing connections between different things and subjects. Her work is shown in international exhibitions and presented by Charon Kransen Arts, New York.Daniela Malev has travelled a lot and likes to gather and exchange ideas and knowledge. She has lived, worked and studied abroad in the USA, Mexico and Italy and Spain.
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One of her special fields of interest are brooch backs and pin mechanisms and their integration into the design of the whole brooch. She is convinced that mechanism and attachment of a brooch hold a tremendous potential for the design of a brooch in its entirety and need to be developed with equal importance. She gives lectures and workshops on this subject worldwide. Her workshops initiate and encourage a conscious approach to the design of the brooch back and its mechanisms. She is the author of the book “To The Point – pin mechanisms and brooch back design”. 

More about Daniela: www.daniela-malev.de
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Anna Rikkinen: Attire -‍

apparel, clobber [British slang], clothes, clothing, costumery, dress, duds, garments, gear, habiliment(s), habit [archaic], rags, raiment, rig, rigging, threads, toggery, togs, vestiary, vestments, vesture, wear, wearables, weeds

The first known use of attire was in the 13th century. Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French atirer to equip, prepare, attire, from a- (from Latin ad-) + tire order, rank, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English tīr glory, ornament.‍