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Fingers : jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand : 40 years of Fingers Jewellery Gallery

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : David Bateman, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 152 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781869538620
  • 1869538625
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NK7401.F5 S5 2014
Contents:
1974-1980 -- 1981-1987 -- 1987-2000 -- 2001-2013.
Summary: "On 22 November 1974, five jewellers opened Aotearoa's first contemporary jewellery gallery in a narrow shop at 6 Lorne Street, in the centre of Auckland. Fingers jewellery cooperative was an answer to the challenge of how to make a living from their craft, while keeping true to the alternative spirit of the 1970s. Over the subsequent four decades, Fingers has made a huge contribution to contemporary jewellery, representing many of this country's leading jewellers, and providing a home for some of the most sophisticated thinking about craft, materials and adornment in Aotearoa. In this richly illustrated book, Damian Skinner and Finn McCahon-Jones tell the history of Fingers through objects, texts, images, posters and invitations - all the evidence that demonstrates that the story of Fingers is also the largely untold history of contemporary jewellery and craft in Aotearoa New Zealand"--Publisher's description.
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"Published in conjunction with 'Fingers : Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand' 7 November-20 December 2014, Objectspace, 8 Ponsonby Road Auckland 1011"--Page 002.

Includes index.

1974-1980 -- 1981-1987 -- 1987-2000 -- 2001-2013.

"On 22 November 1974, five jewellers opened Aotearoa's first contemporary jewellery gallery in a narrow shop at 6 Lorne Street, in the centre of Auckland. Fingers jewellery cooperative was an answer to the challenge of how to make a living from their craft, while keeping true to the alternative spirit of the 1970s. Over the subsequent four decades, Fingers has made a huge contribution to contemporary jewellery, representing many of this country's leading jewellers, and providing a home for some of the most sophisticated thinking about craft, materials and adornment in Aotearoa. In this richly illustrated book, Damian Skinner and Finn McCahon-Jones tell the history of Fingers through objects, texts, images, posters and invitations - all the evidence that demonstrates that the story of Fingers is also the largely untold history of contemporary jewellery and craft in Aotearoa New Zealand"--Publisher's description.

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