Pauline Bern

Pauline Bern (born 1952) is a New Zealand jeweller.

Pauline Bern
Born
Pauline Bern

1952 (age 70–71)
Auckland, New Zealand
Known forJewellery

Early life

Bern was born in Auckland in 1952.

Career

Bern is a self-taught jeweller who began making jewellery while living in the United States in the 1970s.[1] She has exhibited consistently in New Zealand since the mid 1980s.[2] In 1988 she became a lecturer in craft design at Carrington Polytechnic in Auckland (now Unitec Institute of Technology).[3] In 1992 Bern became Head of Jewellery, and continued to teach at Unitec until 2012, working with a number of students who went on to become significant artists in their own right, including Areta Wilkinson, Octavia Cook, Jane Dodd and Joe Sheehan.[2]

Work

Bern's work often references domestic activity.[4] A necklace of silver strands woven to resemble small steel wool pot scrubbers won her the Thomas Foundation Gold Award in 2000,[5] and the piece she created as a result, made from 80 metres of 18ct gold wire, is in the collection of the Dowse Art Museum.[5]

Recognition

In 2003 Bern was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Residency, giving her the opportunity to spend two months working with other jewellers at the Gray Street Workshop in Adelaide.[6] Major exhibitions include 'Strain, Grate, Whisk, Scrub' which toured New Zealand galleries in 2000–01 and 'Colonial Goose' at Objectspace, Auckland, in 2011.[6][7]

References
  1. "Pauline Bern". Avid Gallery. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. Tyler, Linda (Summer 2014). "From small beginnings come beautiful things". Arts news. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. Skinner, Damian (2010). Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry. San Francisco: Velvet Da Vinci and The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston. p. 60. ISBN 9780615340104.
  4. Skinner, Damian; Murray, Kevin (2014). Place and Adornment: A history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. p. 220. ISBN 9781454702771.
  5. Clifford, Andrew (17 November 2004). "At the end of the garden". NZ Herald. APN New Zealand Limited.
  6. "Auckland jeweller relishes residency opportunity". Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. 19 June 2003. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.

    Exhibitions

  7. "Colonial Goose". Objectspace. Retrieved 6 December 2014.

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