David Bielander Public Lecture: Identity Markers

Wednesday 5 February 2020
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7pm

RMIT University, Building 80, Level 4, Lecture Theatre 11
435–457 Swanston Street, Melbourne

RMIT University School of Art Gold & Silversmithing Studio Lecture Series

This summer we are pleased to welcome David Bielander to present his lecture at RMIT University. This lecture is open to the public and students and will be presented during his Master class, Angst and Jewellery at RMIT University and the solo exhibition Identity Markers at Gallery Funaki.

David Bielander worked as an apprentice goldsmith in Basel and worked for the industrial designer and jewellery maker Georg Spreng before studying under professor Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 2006 he became the Artistic Assistant to Professor Daniel Kruger at the Academy of Fine Arts Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany and in 2011, an external consultant to the jewellery department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Recipient of the Herbert Hoffmann Prize in 2010, the Francoise van den Bosch Award in 2012 and the Swiss Grand Prix Award in 2017.

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Image: David Bielander, Pick Your Nose (Pinocchio’s Diversity), 2019, Carved wood, elastic (Photo: Dirk Eisel)