Pauline Bern Explained

Pauline Bern
Birth Name:Pauline Bern
Birth Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Known For:Jewellery

Pauline Bern (born 1952) is a New Zealand jeweller.

Early life

Bern was born in Auckland in 1952.

Career

Bern is a self-taught jeweller who began making jewellery while living in the United States in the 1970s.[1] She has exhibited consistently in New Zealand since the mid 1980s.[2] In 1988 she became a lecturer in craft design at Carrington Polytechnic in Auckland (now Unitec Institute of Technology).[3] In 1992 Bern became Head of Jewellery, and continued to teach at Unitec until 2012, working with a number of students who went on to become significant artists in their own right, including Areta Wilkinson, Octavia Cook, Jane Dodd and Joe Sheehan.[2]

Work

Bern's work often references domestic activity.[4] A necklace of silver strands woven to resemble small steel wool pot scrubbers won her the Thomas Foundation Gold Award in 2000,[5] and the piece she created as a result, made from 80 metres of 18ct gold wire, is in the collection of the Dowse Art Museum.[5]

Recognition

In 2003 Bern was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Residency, giving her the opportunity to spend two months working with other jewellers at the Gray Street Workshop in Adelaide.[6] Major exhibitions include 'Strain, Grate, Whisk, Scrub' which toured New Zealand galleries in 2000–01 and 'Colonial Goose' at Objectspace, Auckland, in 2011.[6] [7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pauline Bern. Avid Gallery. 6 December 2014.
  2. Web site: Tyler. Linda. From small beginnings come beautiful things. Arts news. 6 December 2014. Summer 2014.
  3. Book: Skinner. Damian. Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry. 2010. Velvet Da Vinci and The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston. San Francisco. 9780615340104. 60.
  4. Book: Skinner. Damian. Murray. Kevin. Place and Adornment: A history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand. 2014. University of Hawai'i. Honolulu. 9781454702771. 220.
  5. Web site: At the end of the garden. Clifford. Andrew. NZ Herald. APN New Zealand Limited. 17 November 2004.
  6. Web site: Auckland jeweller relishes residency opportunity. Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. 6 December 2014. 19 June 2003. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141207235955/http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/news/auckland-jeweller-relishes-residency-opportunity. 7 December 2014.

    Exhibitions

  7. Web site: Colonial Goose. Objectspace. 6 December 2014.

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