Catalogue available from exhibition venues 
 Includes essays and full artist statements, b/w and colour plates
Jewellery Out of Context Artists:
ILSE MARIE ERL
A number of imprinted silver fetishes climb up the wall and keep getting rearranged by jewellery lovers to tell different stories
COLLEEN ALTAGRACIA / ROSS MALCOLM /
                                                           CAROLYN MILBANK
If beads could talk what stories would they tell?
CHELSEA GOUGH & GABBY O’CONNOR
Jewels grow and dpread like an untamed virus, not on our adorned selves, but on the very objects that we will fill our homes with....
RENEE BEVAN
Assuming the position of archaeologist, I reproduce from that which is already reproduced, excavate false history and perpetuate longstanding jewellery myths.
EMILY BULLOCK
What is sexy, desirable, valued, and sought after?
CATHARINE HODSON
Wearing the right necklace for the conditions,
JENNIFER LARACY
The deconstruction of this symbol, literally and figuratively, not only evokes a feeling of loss on a sentimental, social level, but also refers to the breakdown of traditional concepts within
 contemporary jewellery-making.
STELLA CHRYSOSTOMOU
‘HOLE ‘ investigates the power and meaning jewellery exerts through its absence.
LEOLA LE BLANC
‘The Route of all Evil ’ is an interplay between the issues of ornamentation, narcissism and the hedonistic characteristics
related to the body.
TRACEY CLEMENT in collaboration with MELISSA LAING
‘ A Leading Role’ is a cheeky look at the role jewellery plays in the pop culture, from B-grade flicks to Hollywood blockbusters.
GINA MATCHITT
My current  work translates well-known local and international brands from English into Maori and meditates on the relationship between language as logos, and language as economic power.
DEBORAH CROWE
‘Bling, bling’! These mirror boxes present jewellery items as objects of desire.
VICTORIA McINTOSH
‘My invented History’ combines found objects, textiles and my hair. I set about creating heirlooms to an imagined past.
ANDREA DALY
An ‘ex-voto’ plaster can be decorative yet when it is ripped from the body it allows the wearer a personal moment of penance.
SHELLEY NORTON
I am fascinated by the manufacture of meaning....
ARTI SANDHU
Jewellery concepts for India - where animals, lamp posts, scooters, rickshaws and other mundane everyday objects hang off a tangled network of electricity cables to form a collection of (un?)-wearable necklaces and brooches.
JULIA DE VILLE
“Learn to die”.
PIPPI TETLEY
“Baubles”is about taking jewellery out of the drawer, putting it on the wall and providing more than one option in a single piece of jewellery.
LANG EA
‘Romancing the stone’ is a collection of ten short personal stories behind ten precious stones. The stories illustrate survival, humanity and cultural identity, captured on a DVD format - within the realm of a visually abstract documentary genre.
LISA WALKER
A collection of about 200 handmade objects consisting of jewellery and pieces that may become jewellery...
NIKI HASTINGS McFALL
‘Iced Vovos” are assemblages made from children’s toys, glow-in-the-dark plastic flowers embellished with beads and my dust-gathering paraphernalia that ‘may come in handy some day’.
FRAN ALLISON
How to...make a rabbit from a sock...make a necklace from a frock uses clothing as a resource in the making of jewellery. In recycling this frock to make a necklace I attempt a transformation while acknowledging the history implied by recognition of previous usage.
SANDRA BUSHBY
Moving through craft practices from goldsmith to embroidery I have used the hand craft of embroidered stitches to recreate the historically innovative Tiffany jewellery designs.
TONY DE GOLDI & GRANT CORBISHLEY
“Yee Haaa! Howdy partners!’Dresses to Kill”- this town ain’t big enough for the two of us!” is a collaborative project investigating relationships between production, purpose, display, documentation, performance and adornment.