christmas at BILK opening friday 18th november, 6pm more >

THE FINAL FRONTIER Contemporary Jewellery Explorations of the Cinematic Future Gaffa Gallery, 281 Clarence Street, Sydney from 3 - 13 November 2011. more >

Craft Australia Sustainability Forum 2011 musing on a sustainable practice more >

Unexpected Pleasures: the art and design of contemporary jewellery Book and Exhibition curator/editor Susan Cohn National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia: April – July 2012 Design Museum, London UK: 5 December 2012 – 3 March 2013

Ontketend (Jewellery Unleashed!) See work by many contemporary jewellers including mark vaarwerk. Curator: Liesbeth den Besten Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA) 5 November 2011 – 5 February 2012 Utrechtseweg 87 6812 AA Arnhem The Netherlands more >

ADD TO CART!! a small selection of mark vaarwerks are now available for purchase on-line via bigcartel! more >

contemporary wearables '11 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Biennial Jewellery Award & Exhibition 531 Ruthven St. Toowoomba Queensland Australia 4350 Ph (07) 46886748 10 September to 16 October 2011 inclusive (the work shown left has been acquired by the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery) more >

NOT PRETTY? 26th August - 10th September 2011 Metalab 10b Fitzroy Place, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Australia more >

UNNATURAL ACTS August 2-28 Velvet da Vinci Gallery 2015 Polk Street (near Broadway) San Francisco, CA 94109 more >

THIS HEMISPHERE the other hemisphere shows in sydney june 2-30 supa centa moore park cnr todman ave and south dowling street.

contemporary wearables '11 7/5/11 yesterday i rushed to the post office to make the deadline for applications. with a healthy hour or two before closing time. wish my three brooches well. (they are made out of polystyrene food boxes, PMMA broken car brake light covers, cellulose acetate cigarette filters, colouring pencil, sterling silver, stainless steel)

im a super cycler! more >

THE OTHER HEMISPHERE april 12-27 VENTURA LAMBRATE MILANO "Nine Australian Design practices have produced work inspired by the theme The Other Hemisphere. Each design requires the user to peer into the world that the object creates — and in doing so describes the act of looking into another place — whether that is yourself, the earth, elements of light and sound, another world or the universe; literally or conceptually. As a result, the exhibition fuses the simultaneous facts of this and the other, there and here." Curator Sarah K DANIEL EMMA EMMA ELIZABETH BLAKEBROUGH+KING (B+K) PLASTIC FANTASTIC FLYNN TALBOT BEN MCCARTHY ELLIAT RICH MARK VAARWERK more >

australian design review article The Other Hemisphere 05.04.11 more >

dedece design article The Other Hemisphere @ Milan Design Week 2010 more >

NOT PRETTY? Atrium Gallery The Glasgow School of Art 8-22 Apr 2011 Preview 15 Apr, 6-8pm Contemporary jewellery and objects created by 9 male makers from Scotland and Australia Nicholas Bastin (pictured left) Jonathan Boyd Cesar Cueva David Goodwin Christian Hall Andrew Lamb Grant McCaig Michael Pell Mark Vaarwerk more >

mark vaarwerk needs help! needs leftovers from your arty pursuits! if you do lots of colouring in then maybe you can help me. i need peoples who can save me their pencil shavings, which i would like to use to colour some of my brooches (similar to those in the link below). Other items that you would otherwise throw out could also be useful, like wasted marker pens, empty printer cartridges - anything that may have tiny remnants of ink or colour. if you think you can help contact me on mark@vaarwerk.com more >