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Curated project space for expanded jewellery and object based practices in Naarm. Thur-Fri 12-5 Sat 12-4 and by appointment
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‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’, curated by Manon van Kouswijk is now open! Wearing jewellery can be considered as part of a layering; a geology of body, skin, dress, ornament. An accumulation of material, place and time. There’s an interesting dichotomy between the fragility of the human body and the toughness of jewellery materials like metals and stones that will inevitably outlive us. This is fertile ground for contemporary jewellers to work with, work around, work against, embrace, reject, rejig, rethink. ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ applies a multitude of gestures to a broad range of materials, images and objects producing works that carry meaning beyond the decorative. Featuring: Laila Marie Costa, Helena Johansson Lindell, Suska Mackert, Despo Sophocleus, Mirei Takeuchi, Charlotte van de Velde, Manon van Kouswijk, Jamila Wallentin. Exhibition dates: 9-30 October, with special additional hours: Sunday 25 October (12-4) and Wednesday 28 October (12-5). Featuring: Laila Marie Costa @lazyliberty Helena Johansson Lindell @helenajohanssonlindell Suska Mackert #suskamackert Despo Sophocleus #desposophocleus Mirei Takeuchi #mireitakeuchi Charlotte van de Velde @charlotte_van_de_velde Manon van Kouswijk @manonvankouswijk Jamila Wallentin @jamila_wallentin_jewellery Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ is presented as part of Radiant Pavilion @radiantpavilion Manon van Kouswijk is represented by @funakigallery Photography: Ross Coulter @countercoulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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Alta Forma is delighted to present, ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’, curated by Manon van Kouswijk open today Friday 9 Oct 12-5pm with opening celebration tomorrow Sat 19 Oct 2-4pm. Wearing jewellery can be considered as part of a layering; a geology of body, skin, dress, ornament. An accumulation of material, place and time. There’s an interesting dichotomy between the fragility of the human body and the toughness of jewellery materials like metals and stones that will inevitably outlive us. This is fertile ground for contemporary jewellers to work with, work around, work against, embrace, reject, rejig, rethink. ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ applies a multitude of gestures to a broad range of materials, images and objects producing works that carry meaning beyond the decorative. Featuring: Laila Marie Costa @lazyliberty Helena Johansson Lindell @helenajohanssonlindell Suska Mackert #suskamackert Despo Sophocleus #desposophocleus Mirei Takeuchi #mireitakeuchi Charlotte van de Velde @charlotte_van_de_velde Manon van Kouswijk @manonvankouswijk Jamila Wallentin @jamila_wallentin_jewellery Exhibition dates: 9-30 October, with special additional hours: Sunday 25 October (12-4) and Wednesday 28 October (12-5). Opening celebration: Sat 10 Oct 2-4pm. ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ is presented as part of Radiant Pavilion @radiantpavilion Artwork details: ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’, 2026, image by Mirei Takeuchi. Graphics by Manon van Kouswijk and Mirei Takeuchi. Manon van Kouswijk is represented by @funakigallery #altaformaprojectspace by @_altaforma_
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UP NEXT: Alta Forma is delighted to present, ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’, curated by Manon van Kouswijk. Wearing jewellery can be considered as part of a layering; a geology of body, skin, dress, ornament. An accumulation of material, place and time. There’s an interesting dichotomy between the fragility of the human body and the toughness of jewellery materials like metals and stones that will inevitably outlive us. This is fertile ground for contemporary jewellers to work with, work around, work against, embrace, reject, rejig, rethink. ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ applies a multitude of gestures to a broad range of materials, images and objects producing works that carry meaning beyond the decorative. Featuring: Laila Marie Costa @lazyliberty Helena Johansson Lindell @helenajohanssonlindell Suska Mackert #suskamackert Despo Sophocleus #desposophocleus Mirei Takeuchi #mireitakeuchi Charlotte van de Velde @charlotte_van_de_velde Manon van Kouswijk @manonvankouswijk Jamila Wallentin @jamila_wallentin_jewellery Exhibition dates: 9-30 October, with special additional hours: Sunday 25 October (12-4) and Wednesday 28 October (12-5). Opening celebration: Sat 10 Oct 2-4pm. ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ is presented as part of Radiant Pavilion @radiantpavilion Artwork details: ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’, 2026, image by Mirei Takeuchi. Graphics by Manon van Kouswijk and Mirei Takeuchi. Manon van Kouswijk is represented by @funakigallery #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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Thank you to the wonderful artists in ‘Close Reading’: Tom Burless @tomikehfabrication Melissa Cameron @melissacameronjeweller and Minhi Park @minhi_park_ for creating such a special exhibition with us! Thank you also to all our gorgeous visitors and supporters, we can’t do it without you, your enthusiasm and generosity goes a long way. We’re currently closed for installation and will reopen early October with the curated exhibition ‘Between a Rock and a Soft Place’ by Manon van Kouswijk @manonvankouswijk as part of Radiant Pavilion @radiantpavilion more details coming! by @_altaforma_
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A wonderful series of necklaces by artist and designer Tom Burless, inspired by signs and cyphers that litter the landscape between the artist’s home and studio, part of Close Reading now on at Alta Forma. Final day today we are open 12-4pm. Artwork details: Sigils #1 - #9 (Necklaces), stainless steel, silicon, woven PTFE, paint - 18 x 18 x 8cm (approx.) Tom Burless is a Naarm based fabricator working closely with artists, curators and galleries providing object support and structural substrates for the making and exhibition of sculptural art works. He also makes and designs objects on commission. In the late 80s and early 90s Tom designed costume jewellery, he has worked with Colombian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso and designer and publisher Ricardo Felipe. Tom also has an ongoing collaborative, sound and installation practice with Gail Priest. Tom also runs Overshare Book Room, a small, curated book gallery and shop in Collingwood. @oversharebooks Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography: Ross Coulter @countercoulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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Two beautiful artworks by Minhi Park featured in our current exhibition Close Reading. Artwork details: Buncheong ham(함) with Scroll Design in underglaze iron, 17x10cm, 2026 and Peony Vine Inlaid Iron-Glazed Ham(함), stoneware, porcelain inlaid, iron oxide,liquid quartz finish, 14x12x7cm, 2026. The gallery is open 12-5 today, 12-4 Fri and 12-4 Sat. “As someone who cherishes keeping precious objects inside a container—finding joy in keeping them close to gaze at and touch—I have long loved the craft of making ham 함(traditional lidded boxes). In an era where mass production is rapid and the cycle of ownership and disposal is all too easy, I wanted to create boxes that embody the true value of craft: uniqueness and utility; reflecting the artisan’s historical background and personal aesthetic, yet suitable for use in everyday life. Drawing on the rich heritage of Korean traditional crafts, I fuse traditional shapes, patterns and age-old crafting techniques with ceramics, and materials accessible in the modern world. Most of the boxes were created using the coil method—an ancient pottery technique—and shaped through continuous pounding. I crafted them with box-like forms in mind, or while reflecting on the small Korean mountains I had climbed and gazed out from.” Minhi Park, 2026 Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography: Ross Coulter @countercoulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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Enigmatic photographs printed on box board punctuate Tom Burless’ installation for our current exhibition Close Reading. “Found in the signs and cyphers that litter the landscape on the route between my home and my workshop, Wayfindings seeks to define a language that describes the key liminal aspect of my life, the banal, necessary journeys and the routes chosen to arrive at the same destination day after day. Guided by overlapping and sometimes interlocking trains of thought that rise from the urban landscape, food, Bruno Munari, condoms, colour, the speculative cinema of Tarkovsky, desire, toys, discarded drug paraphernalia, the architecture of cat scratching posts, audio books (mostly modern Asian history) pop music, the compulsive work of homeless creators and how these things collide with the natural world of gum trees, rainbow parakeets, the sky and the endless cycle of a puddle’s transition from purity to poison.” Tom Burless, 2026 Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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A selection of wonderful jewellery by Whadjuk Noongar based artist Melissa Cameron currently on view as part of Close Reading. About Melissa’s project: “Mild steel sweeping blades break off and fall from large street sweeper trucks when they clean. If you know where to look, you can find them left behind on streets the world over. Thousands of these thin metal strips have been collected by me and on my behalf by my jewellery colleagues and other conscientious observers around city streets and cemeteries. I began making chain for a large artwork called rapidyclosingwindow #1, using 2.5cm x 1cm chain links made from the blades in concert with other recycled metal and plastics. After making hundreds of meters of the same chain to complete this work, it permeated my practice. I have made several detours using street-sweeper-blade chain, diverted or even borrowed from the large work: a shrug that later grew into a chain dress, work featuring offcuts from the chain making process, work using the rust dust collected from chain manufactured into ink, I’ve used every scrap of the reclaimed material. Collectively these pieces are imbued with a story of environmental recklessness and conscious reclamation and reuse.” Melissa Cameron, 2026 Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography details of Melissa’s beautiful jewellery courtesy the artist. Photography: Susannah Kings-Lynne @skljewellery #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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“Found in the signs and cyphers that litter the landscape on the route between my home and my workshop, Wayfindings seeks to define a language that describes the key liminal aspect of my life, the banal, necessary journeys and the routes chosen to arrive at the same destination day after day. Guided by overlapping and sometimes interlocking trains of thought that rise from the urban landscape, food, Bruno Munari, condoms, colour, the speculative cinema of Tarkovsky, desire, toys, discarded drug paraphernalia, the architecture of cat scratching posts, audio books (mostly modern Asian history) pop music, the compulsive work of homeless creators and how these things collide with the natural world of gum trees, rainbow parakeets, the sky and the endless cycle of a puddle’s transition from purity to poison.” Tom Burless, 2026 Artworks: Receipt - Ring 1-7, stainless steel 3 x 3 x 3cm (approx.) Receipt - Cuff 1-4, stainless steel 8.5 x 8.5 x 2.5 (approx.) Kekkai Shroud - Brooch 1-4, aluminium, stainless steel, acetal, 10 x 7 x 2.5(approx.) Sigils 1-9 (Necklaces), stainless steel, silicon, woven PTFE, paint - 18 x 18 x 8cm (approx.) Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography: Ross Coulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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“As someone who cherishes keeping precious objects inside a container—finding joy in keeping them close to gaze at and touch—I have long loved the craft of making ham 함(traditional lidded boxes). In an era where mass production is rapid and the cycle of ownership and disposal is all too easy, I wanted to create boxes that embody the true value of craft: uniqueness and utility; reflecting the artisan’s historical background and personal aesthetic, yet suitable for use in everyday life. Drawing on the rich heritage of Korean traditional crafts, I fuse traditional shapes, patterns and age-old crafting techniques with ceramics, and materials accessible in the modern world. Most of the boxes were created using the coil method—an ancient pottery technique—and shaped through continuous pounding. I crafted them with box-like forms in mind, or while reflecting on the small Korean mountains I had climbed and gazed out from.” Minhi Park, 2026 Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography: Ross Coulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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Melissa Cameron is an artist living and working on Whadjuk Noongar land in Perth, Australia. Her aesthetic sensibility is influenced by her early studies in computer science, her first career and BFA earned in interior architecture, and her jewellery and metalsmithing MFA. Her practice alternates between research based socially aware, protest art, and technology and materials-based investigations. Her work centres the human body - physically and politically. Recent material investigations have led her to make with the steel debris left behind by mechanical street sweepers. Her works are in the public collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and Cheongju City Collection in South Korea amongst others, and she has exhibited in the prestigious Schmuck exhibition in Munich. Artworks: Sweeper blade dress, found steel street sweeper blades, 130 x 30 x 5 cm, 2024-2026. $16,500. With dress installation: offcut galvinised steel, salvaged copper wire, steel reinforcement hanger, screw fixings, 70 x 25 x 10 cm, 2026. fuckthispresident..., stainless steel, vitreous enamel, titanium, 12 x 6.5 x 1cm, $2,200 U chain (long), found steel street sweeper blades, stainless steel, 40 x 9 x 0.3 cm Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography: Ross Coulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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Tom Burless is a Naarm based fabricator working closely with artists, curators and galleries providing object support and structural substrates for the making and exhibition of sculptural art works. He also makes and designs objects on commission. In the late 80s and early 90s Tom designed costume jewellery, he has worked with Colombian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso and designer and publisher Ricardo Felipe. Tom also has an ongoing collaborative, sound and installation practice with Gail Priest. Tom also runs Overshare Book Room, a small, curated book gallery and shop in Collingwood. Artworks: Receipt - Ring 1 - 7, stainless steel 3 x 3 x 3cm (approx.); Receipt - Cuff 1 - 4, stainless steel 8.5 x 8.5 x 2.5 (approx.). Kekkai Shroud - Brooch 1 - 4, aluminium, stainless steel, acetal, 10 x 7 x 2.5(approx.) each; Kekkai Shroud - Brooch 1 - 4, aluminium, stainless steel, copper leaf 10 x 7 x 2.5 (approx.) each; Kekkai Shroud -Brooch 1 - 4, aluminium, stainless steel, paint 10 x 7 x 2.5 (approx.) Contact the gallery for full list of available works and prices: info@altaforma.au Photography: Ross Coulter #altaformaprojectspace taken in Alta Forma by @_altaforma_
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