Catalogue online now at http://tlc.ac.nz/auction.php.

TV One’s Good Morning show presenter Steve Gray, will auction a unique contemporary jewellery collection at The New Dowse on Monday, 23rd November 2009.

This opportunity is facilitated by jewellery students from The Learning Connexion. It is an initiative to fund specialty tools for the school’s jewellery department.

View and buy unique pieces of art; meet the artists and enjoy a fun evening.

We have pieces donated by some of Wellington and New Zealand’s top jewellers, including Brian Adam, Hanne Andersen, Ian Astbury, Alison Blain, Barbara Blewman, Simon Edmonds, Hanne Eriksen Mapp, Aaron Frater, Phillipa Gee, Lucy Green, Marcel Baaijens, Maureen Kemp, Sophie Lewis-Smith, pounamu and bone carver Owen Mapp, Craig McIntosh, Neke Moa, Spring Rees and Zita Wespel-Rose.

By Rani Stigsdottir

Further, works are being donated by past and present intermediate and advanced jewellery students from the The Learning Connexion (http://tlc.ac.nz).

Hanne Eriksen Mapp, TLC Jewellery tutor notes, “The quality of work coming from the students at the moment is explorative, imaginative and conceptual. These jewellery students are our renowned artists of the future.”

Doors open at 5:30pm for viewing of the jewellery with music and refreshments. Wine has been kindly donated by Rumbles Wine Merchant. The Auction starts at 6:30pm.

All works can be viewed from Monday, 16th November at The Learning Connexion, 182 Eastern Hutt Rd, Taita, Lower Hutt and online: tlc.ac.nz/auction.php.

What: Jewellery Fundraiser Auction

When: Monday, 23rd November 2009
5:30pm-8:30pm (auction starts at 6:30pm)

Where: The New Dowse
45 Laings Road
Lower Hutt