The other side : Melinda Young | Emily McCulloch Childs

In 2013 co-director of Everywhen Art Emily McCulloch Childs founded the nation-wide Indigenous Jewellery Project - working with First Nations' communities in workshops lead with Kate Rohde, then from 2015 by University of New South Wales lecturer and contemporary jeweller Melinda Young. 

From the desert to Arnhem Land, the Torres Strait Islands to remote communities in New South Wales and to university studios in Canberra, IJP has since worked with dozens of Indigenous jewellers to develop their practice. Outcomes have been exhibited at public galleries and award exhibitions. 

During these projects Melinda and Emily have also made their own jewellery on Country - inspired by the materials, places, people, and communities with whom they have engaged. The results are now on show for the first time in The Other Side: Melinda Young | Emily McCulloch Childs, 

"We have worked variously on the floor...taken over community halls...worked on beaches and in the desert dust; even in a university gold and silversmithing workshop. 

Each experience has been unique, reflecting the materials and stories from Country that have gone into the artists work. Every single second spent on Country and working with all of the beautiful artists we have encountered has been a privilege, the experience of IJP has changed me as an educator, an artist and a person." IJP contemporary jewellery advisor & workshop educator Melinda Young.

Opening drinks and in conversation: Saturday April 13
Arrival from 2pm for in conversation at 2.30 pm with Emily McCulloch Childs (in person)  and Melinda Young (remotely from her studio in NSW)

> View Melinda Young catalogue 

> View Emily McCulloch Childs catalogue