Peter Deckers

 

Jeweller, originator /initiator, senior tutor/ jewellery coordinator, New Zealand (b. Rotterdam, The Netherlands 05-04-1953)   Education (selected highlights): 1973 – 1977 Technical Institute for jewellery making and design (MTS vakschool, Schoonhoven (NL) 1981 – 1982 Fine Arts Course, Academy of Fine Arts, Rotterdam (NL) 2001 – 2003 MFA, Elam, Auckland University, Auckland (NZ)   Exhibitions (selected highlights): 1980 Bugs, exhibition, collaboration project with Niek van Driel (jewellery) and Darius Gunneberg (paintings), The Hague (NL) 1989 Environmental Distortions, exhibition, gallery 33 1/3, Wellington 1992 Two worlds, Containers and Valuables, exhibition, 331/3 Wellington 1993 Two Worlds, a Continuation, exhibition, gallery 33 1/3 Wellington 1996 The same but different, 2nd NZ jewellery Biennial, Dowse Art Museum, Hutt City, Auckland, Dunedin 1996 Festival Jewels, International Festival of the Arts, Wellington 1996 - 2005 Fingers Annual Group Show, Auckland http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/peter_deckers.htm and http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/peter_deckers_2003_group_statement.htm and http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/groupshow_05.htm 1998 Turangawaewae’ The 3rd NZ Jewellery Biennial, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 1999 Hawks Bay Museum, Napier 1999 Deep Rings in Fishbowls (1) Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt 1999 Deeper Still, rings in fishbowls (2) Eon, Auckland 2000 Millennium exhibition, Masterworks, Auckland 2000 Millennium Medallions, City Gallery, Wellington 2001 - 2002 Grammar: Object and Subject, 4th NZ jewellery biennial, installation: ‘Now Then, Who Owns What’, Dowse Art Museum, Hutt City, Govett Bruster gallery, New Plymouth, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Otago Museum, Dunedin and Hawks Bay Museum, Napier 2001 - 2004 Guild Unlimited, installation the Reproduction Guild, Craft Victoria, Melbourne (Australia) http://www.craftvic.asn.au/guild/deckers1.htm 2003 Herzfeld gallery, Wellington http://www.city-gallery.org.nz/mainsite/Precious.html http://www.craftvic.asn.au/guild/deckers.htm 2004: the Reproduction Guild (reworked), exhibition sound/jewellery installation, Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North 2002 Where I call home, Quoil, Wellington 2002 - 2005 Greetings from Maori-land, exhibition sound/jewellery installation, Auckland University, Auckland http://www.craftculture.org/archive/deckers1.htm 2004: Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland, 2005: Expressions, Upper Hutt 2003 Shut-Up series: installation KitschORama, Pataka Museum, Porirua (NZ) 2004 Dutch artists in New Zealand’, ‘Acoustic Tile installation’ (with sound), Pataka Museum, Porirua 2004 200 rings exhibition, Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, USA: http://66.216.71.129/show.php?sid=40, http://www.velvetdavinci.com/allimages.php?action=show&mode=1&id=40&page=8 ) 2005 Customised, a survey of jewellery, by Peter Deckers, exhibition, Pataka Museum, Porirua http://www.salient.org.nz/index.php?i=50&c=29 2006 Mourning Jewellery from the Chernobyl collection, a Belarusian travel exhibition, Sherman Galleries, Paddington, Sydney http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/exhibitions/twocubes.asp     Publications, events and tutorship (selected highlights): 1980-83 Limit studio and gallery and Atelier Peter Deckers, Rotterdam, Den Briel and The Hague, (NL) 1985 Emigration to New Zealand 1990 – cont Senior tutor (part time), Visual Art department, Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua, http://www.whitireia.ac.nz/page_show.php?category_id=16&subcategory_id=0&page_id=307, http://arts.whitireia.ac.nz/visualarts/index.php 1993 Deckers, P., Two Worlds, Craft New Zealand, issue 45, pp12-13 1999 Schamroth, H. 100 NZ Craft Artists, Random House New Zealand, Auckland 2001 Big Art trip, TVNZ interview (May) 2004 1000 Rings/ editor; Marthe Le Van, introduction by Robert Ebendorf’, Lark books, New York 2004 Corner K, Wellington, Art news New Zealand, summer 2004, p 21 2005 Baines, R. & Errey, S., JMGA Conference - 'Inherited futures: technology to trap ideas’, RMIT Press, Melbourne 2005 Spot Line on…Peter Deckers, editorial, House and Garden Magazine, September 2005, p66 2005 Customised, a survey of jewellery, by Peter Deckers, 2005, First Editions, Wellington http://www.firsteditionpublishers.com/bookshop/arts.htm 2005 Amery M, Jewellery in the Crown, review article, Dominium Post, Wellington 23-09, B16 http://www.tbi.co.nz/modules.php?op=modload&name=Showcase&file=index&func=viewitem&mediaid=2555 2006 Jewellery In and Out of context, paper delivered at the JMGA conference, Sydney University, http://www.jmgansw.org.au/conference/speakers/index.html 2006 Jewellery Out of Context (JOC), publication, 2006, First Editions, Wellington 2006 Choices of the hand, a survey of work from New Zealand jeweller Peter Deckers, introduction by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, book, First Editions, Wellington http://www.theletterheads.co.nz/content/thework/choices_01.html     Curation (selected highlights): 2000 Deep, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt and Deeper Still, Eon, Auckland 2004 – 2006 Jewellery Out of Context (JOC), The Muse, Ultimo, Sydney (organisation) http://www.craftinfo.org.nz/html/newsItems.php?docid=462, http://www.jmgansw.org.au/conference/exhibitions/index.html, http://www.theletterheads.co.nz/content/thework/joc_01.html

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