Legnica International Jewellery Festival Silver Winners 2015

Artist list

Andrzej Adamski, Alexander Blank, Bogumiła Adamska, Mireia Calaf Mensa, Sara Gackowska, Mariusz Gliwiński, Taehee In, Katja Köditz, Esther Ortiz-Villajos González, Jing Yang, Ludmila Šikolová

This competition attracted over 300 participants and we received over 600 individual pieces of work. As many participants sent more than one piece, ever so often these pieces were also in completion to each other. The jury now suggests that participants should only send one piece of work in the future, which puts the decision-making in the hand of the artist-maker and not the jury.

This years’ topic Boundaries had been wonderful and inspiring and gave the jury the possibility to discuss and test boundaries. The jury recognised and appreciated a large variety of approaches and entries for the competition. The topic of the competition opened the discourse towards ethical, political, philosophical and physical manifestations within the field of contemporary jewellery. There were original ideas and there were exceptionally crafted pieces, but what was missing was the combination of both virtues.

After long and intense discussions the jury decided to split the first two prizes. Those pieces that were awarded complement each other as they show oppositional points of views. The first joined prize celebrates qualities connected to research into the field of jewellery and its traditions. The second prize celebrates qualities connected to the subject itself and its more symbolic and poetic dimensions.

The award of the Gallery of Art in Legnica goes to a promising artist that approached the theme of the competition in a unique way. We are looking forward to see his or her future pieces of work in a personal show next year. The Organizers' Special Award for creativity, courage, uncompromising attitude and innovation goes to a witty and mindful comment that breaks conventions and looks at jewellery and the topic in a more humoristic way.

At one point the jury had collected good arguments but reached a deadlock unable to move forward. Finally we managed to move on and are now very happy to present the prize-winners and a selection of the best contributions and entries to this challenging competition in a show.

We would like to thank the organisers for being great hosts and the good pre-jury preparations.
It has been a long, thorough but also very rewarding jury process. 

The Jury, Legnica, 10th of April 2015