Pauline Bern

Pauline Bern
Born Pauline Bern
1952
Auckland, New Zealand
Known for Jewellery

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

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. 1 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. 1 2 Clifford, Andrew (17 November 2004). "At the end of the garden". NZ Herald. APN New Zealand Limited. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. 1 2 "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.
  7. ↑ "Colonial Goose". Objectspace. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  • Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Strain, grate, whisk, scrub : jewellery by Pauline Bern, Auckland: DOT, 2000. ISBN 047306927X
  • Bronwyn Lloyd, Colonial Goose, Auckland: Rim Books, 2011. ISBN 9780473204303. Excerpt available online from Rim Books http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/P_Bern-Colonial-Goose-Web-excerpt.pdf
  • The Dowse Art Museum; Kobi Bosshard, The Second New Zealand Jewellery Biennial: Same But Different, 1996.
  • Deborah Crowe; The Dowse Art Museum, 4th New Zealand Jewellery Biennale: Grammar: Subjects and Objects, 2001.
  • Pauline Bern in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa


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