National Contemporary Jewellery Award 2024

ALCHEMY: A National Contemporary Jewellery Initiative 

Featuring Three Exhibitions:

• The 2024 National Contemporary Jewellery Award (NCJA) finalists: showcasing artworks by 24 of Australia’s finest contemporary jewellers, each vying for five thousand dollars in prize money and acquisition into Griffith’s National Contemporary Jewellery Collection.
• Treasure Trove - 50 years of Jewellery from The National Gallery of Australia. This collection features key pieces of contemporary jewellery on loan from the NGA Collection
• GEOMORPH, by Sabine Pagan. This exhibition explores the value of materials in shaping our perception of, and connection to, our surroundings. Melding the natural with the man-made, the works draw from both the artist’s recent move to Tasmania and her background as a Swiss Australian. 

Join us at the opening of the Gallery’s prestigious National Contemporary Jewellery Award - a biennial award that brings together contemporary applied arts, visual arts and design practice.

Attracting Australia’s leading contemporary object artists and expanding the boundaries of the art of human adornment, the NCJA showcases unique and innovative creations of some of the country’s finest contemporary jewellery practitioners.

The Griffith Regional Art Gallery is proud to be the custodian of the NCJA, the only collection of its kind in regional NSW. The award was started by the Griffith Regional Art Gallery in 1992 to support the development of the collection and to promote contemporary jewellery practice.

This year we are also delighted to host a Collection from the National Gallery of Australia, featuring Contemporary Jewellery pieces from the 1970's - 1990's. 

You can also view a collection of works from one of the Award's judges - Sabine Pagan - with an exhibition of her unique contemporary designs.

Enjoy Dee Vine Estate wines and canapés with our special guest judges, as we celebrate a Festival of Contemporary Jewellery and announce the the newest addition to the Gallery's prized Jewellery Collection.

Tickets $25 each, under 12's may attend free of charge with an accompanying paid adult.

Numbers are limited.

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Opening Event
6pm Friday 8 November
Join us at the opening, enjoy Dee Vine Estate wines and canapés with special guest judges as we celebrate the newest addition to Gallery’s prestigious NCJC. Tickets to the opening are available to purchase here.
Cost is $25 per person.