I AM HERE is a Crafts Council Exhibition that launched at the Saatchi Gallery during 'Collect' 2015 and then opened at The Royal College of Art in December.
The exhibition will now tour nationwide during 2016.
The show features over 100 pieces of jewellery by European makers from over five decades, starting with pieces from the most radical era of modern jewellery making, the New Jewellery Movement in the 1970s. I AM HERE also tells the story of the importance of collections in the support of pioneering craft. One of the collections that features is the Crafts Council Collection that was formed in 1972 and charts the history and development of contemporary craft in the UK, "capturing significant moments in the work of a maker, and developments in practice. It currently includes over 400 jewellery pieces and represents many of the great and iconic names and works in the modern history of jewellery practice, such as Caroline Broadhead, David Watkins, Roger Morris, Gerda Flöckinger, Lina Peterson, Naomi Filmer, and Andrew Lamb"