Photo by Sarah Forgie
ABOUT JACQUELINE NGUYEN, JEWELLER
Jacqueline Nguyen has an Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design from Melbourne Polytechnic having graduated in 2019 with the O’Neils affiliated award for Best Design and the EG Etal series project winner award. She also went on to become the 2020 VIC/TAS winner of the Design Institute of Australia’s Australasian Graduate of the Year Award (Jewellery and Objects)
for her graduate collection.
Her work concentrates on the observation of gender concepts - what is considered ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ - by examining and identifying what defines something as gender specific during the creative process, then reinterpreting once traditional, wearable pieces into something modern that stills pertains a timeless quality. This has allowed for her aesthetic to draw on the juxtaposing characteristics she see between soft curves, creases and crevices and the sharp precision of angular and architectural lines.
Amore Exhibition — Comune Gallery x CRAFT Contemporary
1 - 31 October 2023
Comune Gallery, 272 High Street, Northcote,
VIC 3070
The tradition of using jewellery to symbolise the unity of two people has been around for thousands of years. Today the practice lives on with artists using both classic and contemporary modes of jewellery making to create engagement and promise rings that act as physical representations of love and commitment.
Displaying the broad range of jewellery styles that a couple can choose to commemorate their love for one another, it demonstrates jewellery as a personal, sculptural art-form.
EXHIBITIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2024 ‘Aether And Alchemy’ Comune Gallery x NGV Melbourne Design Week
2023 ‘Amore’ Comune Gallery x CRAFT Contemporary Festival
2022 ‘Jewellery Drops Exhibition’ Milano Jewellery Week
2021 ‘Still, Life’ Radiant Pavilion Contemporary Jewellery & Object Biennial
2020 VIC/TAS Graduate of the Year Award Winner, Design Institue of Australia
2019 O’Neils Affiliated Award for Best Design, Melbourne Polytechnic
2019 EG Etal Jewellery Series Project Winner, Melbourne Polytechnic
2019 ‘Journal Works’ Radiant Pavilion Contemporary Jewellery & Object Biennial
2019 ‘AURUM’ Graduate Exhibition Melbourne Polytechnic
2018 ‘1010 Hours’ Graduate Exhibition Melbourne Polytechnic
EDUCATION
2022 Knife Making Three Day Course, NMH Metalworks
2020 David Bielander Angst and Jewellery Short Course, RMIT University
2019 Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design, Melbourne Polytechnic
2018 Gem Setting Intensive with Michael Laderman, Melbourne Polytechnic
2018 Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design, Melbourne Polytechnic
2011 Bachelor Communications Design (Graphic Design), RMIT University
2010 Diploma of Graphic Arts Design, RMIT University