ANNA VLAHOS
jewellery shows me that everyone is the same. and that even throughout history we have been the same. beads have been found that are 100000 years old. 100000 years ago she found something she thought was beautiful, or a lucky charm, or sentimental and she wanted to wear it. just the same as I did yesterday. it's nice I think.
I started making jewellery in australia. then I moved to greece and started making jewellery in greece. then greek things started to get into my jewellery making even though I was making in my australian way. and that seems to be where things are at right now.
jewellery shows me that everyone is the same. and that even throughout history we have been the same. beads have been found that are 100000 years old. 100000 years ago she found something she thought was beautiful, or a lucky charm, or sentimental and she wanted to wear it. just the same as I did yesterday. it's nice I think.
I started making jewellery in australia. then I moved to greece and started making jewellery in greece. then greek things started to get into my jewellery making even though I was making in my australian way. and that seems to be where things are at right now.
TREES FOR GRAMS
since mid 2019 I started a project in the lead up to my Little Forest exhibition, which took place at Bridget Kennedy Project Space in Sydney, Australia. I would sponsor the planting of one tree per gram of silver (or other metal) in all the pieces I sold. pieces made from natural materials such as wood or fibre are not included in my trees for grams project. the sponsoring takes place after the pieces is sold, and I get paid from my gallery. pieces made and sent to galleries prior to the start of this project are not included as I did not keep track of weights before then. I sponsor the planting of my trees with Eden Reforestation Projects, and I donate an amount of $0.15 per gram (their general tree planting cost is listed at $0.15US) , you can check out their planting FAQ here.
since mid 2019 I started a project in the lead up to my Little Forest exhibition, which took place at Bridget Kennedy Project Space in Sydney, Australia. I would sponsor the planting of one tree per gram of silver (or other metal) in all the pieces I sold. pieces made from natural materials such as wood or fibre are not included in my trees for grams project. the sponsoring takes place after the pieces is sold, and I get paid from my gallery. pieces made and sent to galleries prior to the start of this project are not included as I did not keep track of weights before then. I sponsor the planting of my trees with Eden Reforestation Projects, and I donate an amount of $0.15 per gram (their general tree planting cost is listed at $0.15US) , you can check out their planting FAQ here.
CV
Education:
2004 Certificate IV in Jewellery Design and Production. Central TAFE. Fremantle. Australia.
2002 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) Honours. School of Visual Arts, Edith Cowan University. Perth, Australia.
1999-2001 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts). School of Visual Arts, Edith Cowan University. Perth, Australia. Printmaking, major.
Solo and Two Person Shows:
2022 Sommerlaunen. Schmuck Galerie Hannah Rembeck. Regensburg, Germany.
2019 Little Forest. Bridget Kennedy Project Space. Sydney, Australia.
Group Exhibitions:
2020 Antivirus. Tincallab, Porto, Portugal | Vegetal Slaughterhouse. Parcours Bijoux. Minicyn Showroom/Atelier, Paris, France | Streetview. Athens Jewellery Week. Popeye Loves Olive, Athens, Greece | Companions. Pieces of Eight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2019 Popeye Loves Olive at Munich Jewellery Week. Munich, Germany | Athens Jewellery Week, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece | Nature. Galerie Bettina Flament. Galerie Bettina Flament, Lille, France. | Silver Triennial International 2019. Association for Goldsmiths’ Art and the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau German Goldsmiths’ House, Hanau, Germany.
2018 Trinity: Contemporary Stories. Eleni Marneri Gallery, Athens, Greece | Hidden Curriculum, Popeye Loves Olive at Atelier Cepsisskova, Munich, Germany | Hidden Curriculum, Popeye Loves Olive at Melting Point, Valencia, Spain | Earrings Galore. Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, USA | Pairings. Baltimore Jewelry Centre, Baltimore, USA.
2017 Frame München. Galerie Ra, Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany | Compliments of Spring. Hermsen Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany | Intersecting Spaces - Athens Jewellery Week. Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece | Xenion 2. AS Gallery, Heraklion, Greece.
2016 RINGS. Galerie Bettina Flament, Lille, France | Mutation. White Rocks Gallery, Kefalonia, Greece | I Speak Jewellery. AS Galerie and Kanakis Gallery, Athens, Greece. | 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Metal Art "METALLOphone: Bonds" exhibition. (AV17) gallery, Lithuania | Silver Triennial International 2016. Association for Goldsmiths’ Art and the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau German Goldsmiths’ House | SIERAAD International Jewellery Art Fair, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Nuda Veritas. Eleni Marneri Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2015 Premio Internazionale Mario Pinton: Tribute to Donatello, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy | Earrings Galore. Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, USA | Is That Jewellery? Atopos Art Space, Athens, Greece | Beijing International Contemporary Metal and Jewellery Art Exhibition. The China Millennium Monument World Art Museum. Beijing, China | Jewellery + Architecture. Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal | Values. AS Gallery, Heraklion, Greece | Is That Jewellery? Galeria Alice Floriano, Porto Alegre, Brasil | 2015 Beijing International Jewellery Art Exhibition. Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China.
2014 To Enotion. Popeye Loves Olive, Athens, Greece | The 42nd Invited International Exhibition of Korea Craft Designer Association. Gallery Iang, Seoul, South Korea | METALLOphone. Personally. (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania | Current. El. Marneri Galerie at Joya Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. | Talismans, Votives and Spells. El. Marneri Galerie, Athens, Greece.
2013 The Idea. Vryssaki, Athens, Greece | Korean Craft Designer Association Annual Exhibition, Gallery Iang. Seoul, South Korea | Cross Point of E to W, Design Exhibition, New York School of Visual Art. New York, USA. | 2013 Beijing International Jewellery Art Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art. Beijing, China.
2012 Just Rings. Gallerie Violaine Ulmer, Toulouse, France | 200 Rings/20 Creators. Edition 6. Gallerie Goutte De Terre. Paris, France | Folk is Coming to Town. El.Marneri Galerie. Athens, Greece.
2010 200 Rings/ 20 Creators. Edition 3. Gallerie Goutte De Terre. Paris, France.
2009 200 Rings/20 Creators. Edition 1. Gallerie Goutte De Terre, Paris, France.