Graduate Metal XI – emerging ideas in jewellery & objects is an award exhibition held in conjunction with the National Biennial JMGA Conferences.
This year marked the eleventh show of its kind and surveyed a selection of work by 60 recent Jewellery and Metal smithing graduates from Australia. In spirit of the theme of the conference, 32 international students from Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Thailand were invited to exhibit for the first time.

The exhibition ran from Friday 25 January - Thursday 14 February 2008 in the Light Square Gallery at Adelaide Centre for the Arts.

Three awards were presented as part of the exhibition. The Judges were:
Julie Blyfield - Contemporary Jeweller of International acclaim, and co-founder of the Gray Street Jewellery Workshop.
Robert Reason - Curator of European and Australian Decorative Arts at the Art Gallery of South Australia and affiliate lecturer of Politics at the University of Adelaide.
Julie Ewington - writer, curator and broadcaster - is currently Head of Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery.

Congratulations to our prize winners – Sandra Marker, Tomoka Kaizu and Jimin Kim and to all makers selected to take part in Graduate Metal XI. The wonderful diversity and skill shown in the selected works ensures the strength and originality of future Contemporary Jewellery in the Australia, Asia and Pacific regions.

Awards
Congratulations to:

First Prize

Judges Choice Award Sandra Marker (Sydney Institute of TAFE, Design Centre Enmore, NSW, Australia)
$1,000 worth of Photographic services from Grant Hancock.

(L-R) Amy Worth, Gina Stutchbury, Grant Hancock and Sandra Marker.

Second Prize

Judges Choice Award
Tomoka Kaizu (Tokyo National University, Fine Arts and Music, Saitama, Japan)
A Selection of Jewellery Books including a hand signed copy of "Julie Blyfield".

Third Prize

AMC Award - For "The skillful and creative use of contemporary materials"
Jimin Kim (Kookmin University, Department of Metalwork and Jewellery, College of Design, Seoul, South Korea)
$300 worth of products donated by Grant Evans from Adelaide Moulding and Casting Supplies.

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