Marmalade Issue 5, 2017

JamFactory Front and
Centre at Denfair 2017
At the annual Denfair event in Melbourne this year,
six Furniture Studio Associates and two recent
alumni represented JamFactory as part of the
inaugural Front/Centre initiative. The initiative, a new
inclusion to Denfair’s program, provided an
opportunity to promote emerging designers from
Craft ACT, Artisan, QLD, Designed Objects Tasmania
and Workshopped in association with Australian Design
Centre, Sydney. JamFactory alumnus and Furniture
Studio Production Manager, Nicholas Fuller won the
Front/Centre Best Emerging Designer Award for
his Cantilever, 2016 side tables (pictured left).
Photographer: Johanis Lyons-Reid.
Truly Honoured
Longtime volunteer and supporter of JamFactory,
Truus Daalder and her husband Joost, both passionate
contemporary jewellery collectors, have generously gifted
over 150 pieces of their extensive private contemporary
jewellery collection to the Art Gallery of South Australia. The
Daalder collection is the largest and most significant private
collection of contemporary jewellery in Australia and features
a vast array of prominent international and Australian artists
from the early 20th century to now. Particular attention is
shown to artists from New Zealand and South Australia
including Adelaide-based artists Sarah Rothe, Julie Blyfield
and Catherine Truman. The gift is a remarkable acquisition for
the Art Gallery of South Australia and one that will see the
Gallery’s holdings of contemporary jewellery increased to
one of the largest and most significant in the country.
Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Ceramics at Ernabella
First-year Ceramics Associate, Ashlee Hopkins, returned
to Ernabella Arts in the Northern Territory this April thanks
to Arts South Australia funding for the Pukatja Cuppatea
Cup Carnival, a community outreach ceramics skill
development project working with young people.
Hopkins’s first visit in April 2016 was to undertake a
month-long ceramics technician position. Returning a year
later, the funding allowed Hopkins to spend two weeks
holding a wheel throwing workshop for young female
artists from Ernabella. The workshop focused specifically
on teaching the women to throw cups which were then
decorated by young men in the community as part of a
weekly watiku (men’s) ‘Pots and Pizza’ night. The project
was documented and turned in to a number of short
bi-lingual educational films which will be shown at a
community exhibition night and used to teach future
Ernabella artists.
Photo courtesy of Ernabella.
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