Curriculum Vitae
LIETA MARZIALI
Jewellery artist and independent writer, researcher, curator and mentor
Born in 1973, Italy; resident in UK since 1994; IT and UK national
EDUCATION AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
2015 – 2018 – MA by Project (practice-based research) at The (formerly Sir John Cass) School of Art, Design and Architecture, London Metropolitan University
2010 – 2015 – First Class BA (Hons) Three-Dimensional Design and Craft, Colchester School of Art
1994 – 1997 – BA (Hons) English, University of Surrey
Ongoing research in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, critical studies and history of art
Masterclasses
2019 – “Make! Make! Make!” with Lisa Walker
2018 – “Dancing with jewellery” with Prof. Robert Ebendorf
2016 – “Selfie Now” with Prof. Ruudt Peters
2016 – “Creative and experimental surfaces in enamel” with Elizabeth Turrell
2015 – “Jewellery from found materials: design on the edge” with Prof. Robert Ebendorf
2015 – “Creative and experimental surfaces in enamel” with Elizabeth Turrell
2013 – “Experimental enamelling” with Jessica Turrell
2013 – “Story, Image, Object” with Zoe Arnold
2013 – “Design on the edge: jewellery as personal adornment” with Prof. Robert Ebendorf
2013 – “Re-cycle, re-use, re-see enamelling” with Elizabeth Turrell
2013 – “Jewellery and movement” with Tim Carson (Timothy Information Limited)
2012 – “Dancing with jewellery” with Prof. Robert Ebendorf
Residencies
2019 – SKOK Collective – Pilot Balkan-based residency (co-curator and participant) with a collective of East- and West- European jewellery artists
2017 – “Initiation 2017”, Athens, Greece
2016 – Collaborative Danish-British cross-cultural workshop with the UK Guild of Enamellers, Ravstedhus, Denmark
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING 2025
– KONTRAPUNKT No.3 – I ARE HERE, A Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia (February-March 2025)
– WHO GIVES A SCHICHT, collaborative project with Respct.Me Gallery (for Munich Jewellery Week, March 2025, and Munich Creative Business Week, May 2025)
2024
– DON’T TELL ME A STORY – METALLOphone 2024 – International Biennial of Jewellery and Metal Art, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania
– KONTRAPUNKT No.2 – PERMISSION TO SPEAK, Respct.Me Gallery, Munich, Germany (part of Munich Jewellery Week)
– COSMOS, LEM, JEWELLERY (invited artist, member of the advisory board, author of catalogue essay), Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023
– KONTRAPUNKT No.2 – PERMISSION TO SPEAK, Mathilde Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (part of Obsessed! Festival)
– LE NOUED REVU / THE KNOT REVIEWED, Galerie Amira Sliman, Paris, France (part of Parcours Bijoux)
– KONTRAPUNKT, Dinámica Taller de Proyectos, Valencia, Spain (part of Melting Point)
– COSMOS, LEM, JEWELLERY (invited artist, member of the advisory board, author of catalogue essay)
– Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland
– Galerie Door, Veghel, Netherlands
2022
– KONTRAPUNKT, K.A.A Galéria, Budapest, Hungary (as part of Budapest Jewelry Week)
– COSMOS, LEM, JEWELLERY (invited artist, member of the advisory board, author of catalogue essay), ICE Congress Centre, Krakow, Poland
– AGC.PUNTO22, exhibition of the Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo, Museo del Mediterraneo, Livorno, Italy
2020-21
– MOIM ZDANIEM / IN MY OPINION, Poland: Yes Gallery, Poznan; Museum of Contemporary Jewellery, Warsaw; Jubinale Fair, Krakow; Regional Museum, Konin; Museum Ziemi Lubuskiej, Zielona Gora; Amber Museum, Gdansk.
– SKOK Collective pop-up exhibition, Meduza Café, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
– SKOK Collective pop-up residency exhibition at Skopje Mobile Gallery, Macedonia
– IN SEARCH OF THE FOUND (curator and exhibitor) at Adorned Spaces, SNAG 2019 Conference “The Loop: Coming Full Circle”, Chicago, USA
– GIOIELLI IN FERMENTO 2019 (Selected Artist), Castel San Giovanni, Italy
– MOIM ZDANIEM / IN MY OPINION, Poland: Dubiel Gallery, Warsaw; Yes Gallery, Poznan; Legnica Festival of Silver; Jubinale Fair, Krakow; Regional Museum Sandomierz; Gallery of Art, Legnica; City Museum, Zabrze.
2018
– MOIM ZDANIEM / IN MY OPINION, Magan Gallery, London, UK; China International Jewellery Fair, Beijing, China
– JEWELRY AND TECHNOLOGY, Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal
– MA BY PROJECT – DEGREE SHOW, The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, London
– SO FRESH + SO CLEAN, Ethical Metalsmiths’ International Student Exhibition (USA) (online)
– GIOIELLI IN FERMENTO (Master’s Students Selection), Castel San Giovanni (PC), Italy
– DISCOVER: WORKS INSPIRED BY FOUND OBJECTS, Garland Magazine, Issue #10, Crafts Council Australia (online)
– TRASH ART, Groundwork Gallery, King’s Lynn, UK
2017
– SIERAAD International Jewellery Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
– JEWELRY AND MUSIC, Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal
– SO FRESH + SO CLEAN, Ethical Metalsmiths’ International Student Exhibition (USA) (online)
– IDENTITY, Legnica Festival of Silver, selected for the XXVI International Jewellery Competition, Legnica, Poland
– 20:20 VISIONS – The Association for Contemporary Jewellery’s 20th anniversary national touring exhibition, UK
2016
– JEWELRY AND CINEMA, Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal
2015
– JEWELRY AND ARCHITECTURE, Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal
– THE CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY EXCHANGE
– NEW DESIGNERS, Business Design Centre, London, UK
– DEGREE SHOW, Colchester School of Art, Colchester, UK
– TALES FROM THE TOOL BOX: NARRATIVE JEWELLERY, Crafthaus (online)
2014
– NEW DESIGNERS, Business Design Centre, London, UK
– CHANGING HUES: COLOR EMBRACED BY METALSMITHS AROUND THE WORLD, The Ganoksin Project (online)
2013 and earlier
– UNDERSONG, Belfry Arts Centre, Overstrand, Norfolk, UK
– THE BUTTON PROJECT, Silk Museums, Macclesfield, UK
– LIMINAL, SlackSpace, Colchester, UK
– FORGING AHEAD, A CURATED EXHIBITION OF METAL ART. Belfry Arts Centre, Overstrand, Norfolk, UK
– SHOW OF HANDS, The Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, UK
PUBLIC LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, MENTORING
– ONGOING – individual tailored mentoring sessions and programmes for jewellery students and artists
– March 2023 – Lecture at Amber Trip, XIX International Baltic Jewellery Show, Vilnius, Lithuania
– January 2023 – Lecture at Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland
– September 2022 – Opening lecture at ŠperkStret Conference of Contemporary Jewellery, Bratislava, Slovakia
– September 2021 – Lecture and workshop with Contemporary Jewellery Diploma students, Silverhub jewellery school, Edinburgh, UK
– March 2021 – Keynote lecture, Nuda Vita international project virtual conference
– February 2020 – Panel moderator and speaker at SKOK Collective pop-up exhibition, Meduza Café, Belgrade, Serbia
– September 2019 – Artist talk and pop-up exhibition, Bloc Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
– September 2019 – Lecture and workshop with Contemporary Jewellery Diploma students, Silverhub jewellery school, Edinburgh, UK
– February 2019 – Lecture and workshop with Contemporary Jewellery Diploma students, Silverhub jewellery school, Edinburgh, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming
– A Call to Art, or The Turbulence of a More Originary Questioning, catalogue essay for the exhibition project ‘Cosmos, Lem, Jewellery” (publication date TBC)
Published articles, reviews and essays
– Kontrapunkt No.2 – Permission To Speak – book main texts and lead editing, March 2024
– Le Noeud Revu / The Knot Reviewed – curatorial exhibition text, October 2023
– Kontrapunkt Collective – Group self-interview (co-author), in Current Obsession website, 13 September 2022
– Kontrapunkt – introductory catalogue text, September 2022
– A Universe in a Book – Book review of Manfred Bischoff: Ding Dong in Art Jewelry Forum, September 2022
– Intimate Revolt and the Need to Create Dangerously, two-part lecture delivered during the Nuda Vita international project virtual conference, 12 March 2021, published in the Nuda Vita catalogue, 3rd edition, April 2021
– Intimate Revolt for a universal polis, catalogue essay for the Nuda Vita international project, 2nd edition, March 2020
– Collective Action at JOYA 2019, in Klimt02, September 2019 (full essay), and in JOYA Barcelona Art Jewelry & Objects catalogue, October 2019 (extract)
– In Search of the Found, essay and exhibition catalogue, produced for eponymous exhibition curated at the 48th SNAG Conference, Chicago, May 2019
– Jewellery in the Age of Cataclysm, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 68, Spring 2019
– Are You Ready To Wear It?, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 68, Spring 2019
– Ruudt Peters: Bron/Source, book review in Klimt02, June 2019, and in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 68, Spring 2019
– Hall of Mirrors: on journeying, viewing, and the critical legacy of encounters. A reflective essay. (Te Ao Hurihuri / Ever
Changing World, a collaboration between Dialogue Collective and Handshake Project, The Crypt Gallery, London, 23-27 October 2018), Klimt02, 16 April 2019
– Happy 80th Birthday, Bob!, A personal homage to Robert Ebendorf, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 67, Autumn 2018
– The Making Enigma, or The Tale of Being Human: in conversation with Jordi Aparicio and Adi Toch, in the catalogue of the European Prize for the Applied Arts, published by the World Crafts Council, Belgium Francophone (WCC- BF), now BeCraft, October 2018
– Holy Schmuck!, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 66, Spring 2018
– Forging New Jewellery Histories, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 66, Spring 2018
– Jorge Manilla: Abruptions (Munich Jewellery Week 2017), in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 65, Autumn 2017
– Initiation 2017 – Part 1: Lifting the veil (AIR Programme, Athens, 11-18 September 2017), in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 65, Autumn 2017
– An Enamelling Adventure, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 64, Spring 2017
– Tincal Lab – Porto’s New Space for Contemporary Jewellery, in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 64, Spring 2017
– Summer Workshop at Ravstedhus, in the Guild Of Enamellers’ magazine, Autumn 2016
– Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Object (Wellcome Collection) in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 62, Spring 2016
– Kevin Coates: A Bestiary of Jewels and In Conversation: Dr Coates and Prof Cook (Ashmolean Museum) in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 58, Spring 2014
Books and Magazines – Work featured
– Interview feature together with GroundWork Gallery, “TRASHART” by Ruthie Collins, UK Handmade magazine, Spring 2018, pp. 64-71
– “Round The Bend”, cover image in Findings (Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine), Issue 65, Autumn 2017
– “Once Upon This Time” ensemble, in Mark Fenn’s Tales From The Tool Box: Narrative Jewelry, Schiller Publishing (2017)
– Cuff from “Earth” series, in Matthew Runfola’s Metal Patination Techniques for Jewelers and Metalsmiths, Thames & Hudson (2014) [NOTE: American edition: Matthew Runfola, Patina: 300+ Coloration Effects for Jewelers & Metalsmiths, Interweave Press LLC (2014) ]
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ROLES
CURRENT MEMBER: Art Jewelry Forum (AJF); Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG); Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo (AGC); Crafts Council (UK) Directory
PAST ROLES:
– Association for Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ):
– Features Editor for Findings magazine (Issue 66, Spring 2018; Issue 67, Autumn 2018; Issue 68, Spring 2019)
– Member of the Advisory Board (2017-2019)
– Judge for ArtsThread Global design Graduate Show (in collaboration with Gucci), 2020, 2021