SILVIA WEIDENBACH IN UPCOMING EVENTS
Silvia Weidenbach: Gilbert Collection Resident Open Studio
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wednesday 16 August, 13.00 - 16.00
In this special Open Studio, Silvia Weidenbach will be in conversation with filmmaker Andrew Smith about their latest film project "Unboxing Metis", a short theatre piece inspired by Silvia's jewellery shot at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A short preview of the film with be unveiled, in partnership with Pedro Caxade, Teneisha Bonner, Miguel Ramires and Sigi Schwab.
Jewellery Visions: Create your own 3-D Printed Jewellery
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 September, 10.30 - 17.00
Learn about jewellery, material experiments and digital craft in this unique hands on workshop with Silvia Weidenbach, V&A Gilbert Collection Resident. Explore how digital technologies can be used as a tool to dynamically visualise and create your own 3-D printed jewellery piece. Find out more here.
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Saturday 16 - Sunday 24 September, 10.00 - 17.30
Experience a visual feast of beautiful jewellery designed by V&A Gilbert Collection resident Silvia Weidenbach. Find your flavour as you feast your eyes on the delectable delights of Silvia’s jewellery, in this exhibition shown amongst a buffet of delicious works from the Gilbert Collection. Part of the London Design Festival. Find out more here.
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: In Conversation
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Saturday 16 September, 12.15 - 12.45
Join V&A Gilbert Collection Resident Silvia Weidenbach for a pop-up talk, set against the visual delights of her jewellery display 'Have Your cake and Eat it Too'. This talk will see Silvia joined by fellow jeweller Christopher Thompson Royds and V&A Curator Charlotte Johnson to discuss this playful intervention which asks visitors to consider notions of good taste and the consumption of luxury goods. How do we enjoy luxury and why are some objects more to our taste than others? Part of the London Design Festival. Find out more here.
Silvia Weidenbach: Gilbert Collection Resident Open Studio
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Saturday 16 - Sunday 17 September, 13.00 - 16.00
Visit the studio of Silvia Weidenbach, the first Gilbert Collection Resident to find out more about her artistic practice as a jeweller fusing historical techniques with 3D printing and learn about her plans to make a 21st century treasure chest inspired by the snuffboxes in the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection. Part of London Design Festival. Find out more here.
TRESOR Contemporary Craft 2017
Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Thursday 21 - Sunday 24 September, various times
Silvia Weidenbach will be presenting her work at TRESOR Contemporary Craft, a new and unique fair for high-quality applied arts, with curation by Brian Kennedy. Find out more here.
Symposium Thinking Jewellery XI
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15th October, various times
The theme of this year's symposium is the Material of Art: Imagination and virtual worlds. ‘SchmuckDenken’ [Thinking Jewellery] is the attempt to reflect upon what jewellery is. It is about an interdisciplinary conver-gence either side of the crucial categories of handicraft or art, applied or free: to discover what jewellery is made up of, not what it looks like. More information here.
Small is Beautiful: Miniature Objects and Why We Love Them
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 November, 13.00 - 16.00
From the power of a portrait miniature to the delight inspired by turning a snuff box around in your hands, objects we hold or wear can conjure up strong emotions. Explore and handle a range of masterpieces from the renaissance to the present day and gain a deeper understanding of how these objects were made and why this contributes to their appeal. Find out more here.