Precious Objects: Object and Association with Robert Baines

The lecture series: Fifty Years a Goldsmith by Robert Baines takes place on 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th of July.

Lecture 1: 5th of July, Friday, 2 pm - 4 pm.
1969 -1995 The Pathway from Orthodox Gold and Silversmithing to the Artist Goldsmith.
In 1970 Robert Baines finished his education in gold and silversmithing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. This knowledge base led to an enquiry into the Bronze Age goldsmith processes and particularly the techniques of Nineteenth-Century jewellery takers. From this empowered craft position he continued to make his personal objects that are evidence of subject and meaning.

Lecture 2: 12th of July, 2 pm - 4 pm.
1995 to the present day Intervention of Red Archaeometallurgy.
Personal research of jewellery history
High Wire
The Crinkle and Crankle of Wire Perception
Endangered Pink and the story of fallalery Glamour
Multiplicity

Lecture 3: 19th of July, Friday, 2 pm - 4 pm.
1995 to the present day History works
The Schatzkammer
Bracelet "Java-la-Grande"
Fake News and True Love

Lecture 4: 26th of July, Friday, 2 pm - 4 pm
1995 to the present day Fabulous Follies
The Official History of the Compact Disc
The BC and the AD of the CD
Collecting 

Teachers

Robert Baines