Sat 26, Sun 27, Monday 28 March, Sat 2, Sun 3 April
26 March 2016, 11:00 AM to 3 April 2016, 5:00 PM

Part art project, part social enterprise, the aim of the Indigenous Jewellery Project is to strengthen and continue existing traditions and facilitate artists to develop a career as exhibiting contemporary artist jewellers through upskilling in the use of professional jewellery materials such as metal wires, clasps, silver hooks, silk thread and ‘tiger tail’ (fine plastic coated steel cable with copper crimps).

It is focused on developing and maintaining Aboriginal jewellery and small object tradition and practice, reinforcing the connection to traditional lands and the natural world and developing a sophisticated contemporary art craft practice, in which works are created that both sit on the body and outside it.

The Indigenous jewellery project is curated by McCulloch & McCulloch co-director Emily McCulloch Childs who is linking up with contemporary jewellery galleries and jewellers to connect them with Indigenous art centres across Australia.