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Education:

1992-1996    University College of Art, Design, Technology and Commerce, Pforzheim, Germany
                        Faculty Jewellery- and Silverware Design
                        BA Design 1996

1987-1991    Technical College Jewellery and Watchmaking, Pforzheim, Germany
                         and apprenticeship with Guenter Krauss Jewellery
                         Qualified Goldsmith 1990

Training & Work experience:

1986/87        'La Calade Jewellery', Montreal, Canada
1986/87         Centre des Arts Visuels, Montreal, Canada
1987              Klaus Vischer Jeweller, Berlin, Germany
1994              ZETBE Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995              Viola Schwalm Jewellery, Stuttgart, Germany

Career:

2012-2016      Jewellery Design Tutor at CPIT, School of Art and Design, Christchurch, NZ
2000 -              Elfi Spiewack Design NZ, design and production of own jewellery ranges and exhibition work
2006 / 2007    Freelance designing for 'JADE FACTORY', NZ
1995 -1999     Elfi Spiewack Design Germany, design and production of own jewellery ranges
1995 / 1996     Freelance designing for ZETBE Design, Karlsruhe, PHOENIX DESIGN, Stuttgart, HANSGROHE, Schiltach, DE


Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2002            'From the Woods', FORM Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2003            'Playinstinct', FORM Gallery Christchurch, LURE, Dunedin, NZ
2005            'Sea Below', INFORM, Christchurch, NZ
2006            'New Work', QUOIL, Wellington, NZ
2008            'Bone, Hearth & Fire', INFORM, Christchurch, NZ
2010            'Anthology', THE NATIONAL, Christchurch, NZ
2012            'Fragments', FORM Gallery, Christchurch, FINGERS, Auckland, NZ
2015            'Osseous', THE NATIONAL, Christchurch, FINGERS, Auckland, QUOIL, Wellington, NZ
2017-           'In Splendour Moot', ASHBURTON ART GALLERY, THE NATIONAL, Christchurch, WHAKATANE Museum & Art Gallery
2020            'Unearthed' with photographer Doc Ross, THE NATIONAL, Christchurch
2021            'deeper', AVID, Wellington, NZ
​2023             'Un/familiarities, THE NATIONAL, Christchurch,NZ         
2025             'Bond', Project 100, Nelson, NZ
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Selected Group Exhibitions:

1993            'Reliquien', HALLMACKENREUTHER, Cologne, DE
1995            'Schmücken', SCHMUCKMUSEUM, Pforzheim, DE
                     and Gallery MARZEE, Nijmegen, NL
1997            'Von Sinnen', FORMSTEIN, Mannheim, DE
2001            'Anonevent', FINGERS, Auckland, NZ
2003            'Bloom', OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, USA
2003            'From the Woods', ORANGERIE Botanical Gardens, Goettingen, DE
2005            'Colour for Winter' (with Kobi Bossard), GALLERY THIRTYTHREE, Wanaka, NZ
2006            'The Art of Adornment', Cleveland Gold Award & Exhibition, Dunedin, NZ
2006            'The New Germanic' (curating + show with Juergen Braeuer and Sabine Hauss),
                     INFORM, Christchurch, NZ
2008            'South Island Show', SODA+RHYME STUDIO, Adelaide, AU
2009            'Contemporary Wearables', Toowoomba, AU
2011            'Side Seams', INGE DOESBURG Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2012            'Rosary', LURE, Dunedin, NZ
2012            'Annual Group Show', FINGERS, Auckland, NZ
2013            '[IN] Box, Artbox, Christchurch, NZ
2014            'X-Years', THE NATIONAL, Christchurch, NZ
2016            'Wishlist VI', FORM, Christchurch, NZ
2017            'SculpT', (curator and participant) WAIHEKE ART GALLERY, Waiheke Island, NZ
2018            'Annual Group Show, FINGERS, Auckland, NZ
2018            'Locality', Oxford Gallery, Oxford, NZ
2019/20      'Scale' with jewellers Jeremy Leeming and Lynn Kelly, FORM, Christchurch, GALLERY 33, Wanaka and MORAY, Dunedin
2020            'The Art Centre Sculpture Festival', Christchurch, NZ
2021            'The Art Centre Sculpture Festival', Christchurch, NZ
2022            'Circum', Form, Christchurch, NZ
2022            'Rings', The National, Christchurch, NZ
2022            'Lobe', Fingers, Auckland, NZ
2024            '20 years of The National', The National, Christchurch, NZ
2025            'Familiar in the Foreign - Jewellery from the Southern Hemisphere', Gallerie Handwerk, Munich, DE
2025            'Fifty Squared Art Prize', Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, AU
2025            'The Art Centre Sculpture Festival', Christchurch, NZ


Nominations / Grants:     Art & Craft Design Award Nomination, Leipzig, DE 
                                          Creative New Zealand Grants, NZ
                                          ZAFAA finalist 2017, 2023 and 2024
                                          Artist Residency, Project 100, Nelson, NZ


Press / Publications:   “Schmücken” (Exhibition catalogue from the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, DE)
                                      Schmuck Magazin (DE)
                                      Object Magazine (AU)
                                      Platinum (Australasia)
                                      The Press (Christchurch, NZ)
                                      Dominion (Wellington, NZ)
                                      Göttinger Tageblatt (DE)
                                      Pforzheimer Zeitung (DE)
                                      Narrative Jewellery (UK)
                                      In Splendour Moot (own publication, NZ)
​                                      Art New Zealand Magazine #165 (NZ)