Amberif Design Award 2013: Simply the ring

Artist list

Bożena Czarnecka, Bogdan Dowlaszewicz, Maren Giloy, Paweł Kaczyński, Lidia Karpacz, Miron Kutarba, Katarzyna Luter, Adam Łyszkowski, Marek Mrowinski, Karolina Navus-Wysocka, Olga Oblezina, Alain Roggerman, Marta Rudnicka, Wojciech Rygało, Svetlana Shagarova, Angelina Stoykova, Andrzej Szadkowski, Jasper Vanderberghe

Exhibition presents pieces selected to the 17th International Competition for Jewellery Project with Amber organized by the International Fair of Amber, Jewellery and Gemstones Amberif. Its aim is promotion of a creative thinking and innovative solutions in jewellery design with amber. This year’s topic was: Simply a ring.

International jury composed of:
Caroline Broadhead – chairwoman, lecturer of jewellery design at the Central Saint
Martins College of Arts and Design, London, Great Britain
Christophe Burger – jewellery designer, Colmar, France
Katarzyna Rzehak –Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Jacobson – Cielecka - journalist, art critic and curator of design, Poland
Gisbert Stach – jewellery designer, Graefelfing, Germany

Assessed 152 works submitted by 110 artists from 17 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Ireland, Israel, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Great Britain and Italy, and awarded the prizes. The Jury selected 21 works for publication in the AMBERIF 2013 Fair catalogue and for display at the exhibition:

LAUREATES of ADA 2013:
GRAND PRIX sponsored by the Mayor of the City of Gdańsk – 10.000 PLN
Bożena Czarnecka

AMBER PRIZE
sponsored by the International Amber Association – 1 kg of amber
Angelina Stoykova

SILVER PRIZE - 1 kg of silver
Bogdan Dowlaszewicz