Elfi Spiewack Contemporary Jewellery
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(Education:

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

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

Trainings & 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
2019            'Unearthed' with photographer Doc Ross, THE NATIONAL, Christchurch
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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', Toowomba, 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 participator) WAIHEKE ART GALLERY, Waiheke Island, NZ
2018            'Annual Group Show, FINGERS, Auckland, NZ
2019/20      'Scale' with jewellers Jeremy Leeming and Lynn Kelly, FORM, Christchurch, GALLERY 33, Wanaka and MORAY, Dunedin


Nominations / Grants:     Art & Craft Design Award nomination, Leipzig, DE 
                                          Creative New Zealand Grant, 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 Magazin #165 (NZ)


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