Pauline Bern
{{Short description|New Zealand jeweller (born 1952)}}
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Pauline Bern (born 1952) is a New Zealand jeweller.
Early life
Bern was born in Auckland in 1952.
Career
Bern is a self-taught jeweller who began making jewellery while living in the United States in the 1970s.{{cite web|title=Pauline Bern|url=http://www.avidgallery.co.nz/pauline-bern/|website=Avid Gallery|accessdate=6 December 2014}} She has exhibited consistently in New Zealand since the mid 1980s.{{cite web|last1=Tyler|first1=Linda|title=From small beginnings come beautiful things|url=http://www.artnews.co.nz/summer-2014-feature/|website=Arts news|accessdate=6 December 2014|date=Summer 2014}} In 1988 she became a lecturer in craft design at Carrington Polytechnic in Auckland (now Unitec Institute of Technology).{{cite book|last1=Skinner|first1=Damian|title=Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry|date=2010|publisher=Velvet Da Vinci and The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston|location=San Francisco|isbn=9780615340104|page=60}} In 1992 Bern became Head of Jewellery, and continued to teach at Unitec until 2012, working with a number of students who went on to become significant artists in their own right, including Areta Wilkinson, Octavia Cook, Jane Dodd and Joe Sheehan.
Work
Bern's work often references domestic activity.{{cite book|last1=Skinner|first1=Damian|last2=Murray|first2=Kevin|title=Place and Adornment: A history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand|date=2014|publisher=University of Hawai'i|location=Honolulu|isbn=9781454702771|page=220}} A necklace of silver strands woven to resemble small steel wool pot scrubbers won her the Thomas Foundation Gold Award in 2000,{{cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/at-the-end-of-the-garden/SYDHFAHEFICAEOYMZVZJUD46V4/ |last1=Clifford|first1=Andrew|title=At the end of the garden|website=NZ Herald|publisher=APN New Zealand Limited|date=17 November 2004}} and the piece she created as a result, made from 80 metres of 18ct gold wire, is in the collection of the Dowse Art Museum.
Recognition
In 2003 Bern was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Residency, giving her the opportunity to spend two months working with other jewellers at the Gray Street Workshop in Adelaide.{{cite web|title=Auckland jeweller relishes residency opportunity|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/news/auckland-jeweller-relishes-residency-opportunity|website=Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa|accessdate=6 December 2014|date=19 June 2003|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207235955/http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/news/auckland-jeweller-relishes-residency-opportunity|archivedate=7 December 2014}}
Exhibitions
Major exhibitions include 'Strain, Grate, Whisk, Scrub' which toured New Zealand galleries in 2000–01 and 'Colonial Goose' at Objectspace, Auckland, in 2011.{{cite web|title=Colonial Goose|url=http://www.objectspace.org.nz/Exhibitions/Detail/Colonial+Goose|website=Objectspace|accessdate=6 December 2014}}
References
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External links
- Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, [http://natlib.govt.nz/records/20797717 Strain, grate, whisk, scrub : jewellery by Pauline Bern], Auckland: DOT, 2000. {{ISBN|047306927X}}
- Bronwyn Lloyd, [http://natlib.govt.nz/records/30032070 Colonial Goose], Auckland: Rim Books, 2011. {{ISBN|9780473204303}}. Excerpt available online from Rim Books http://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/P_Bern-Colonial-Goose-Web-excerpt.pdf
- The Dowse Art Museum; Kobi Bosshard, [http://repository.digitalnz.org/system/uploads/record/attachment/753/the_second_new_zealand_jewellery_biennial.pdf The Second New Zealand Jewellery Biennial: Same But Different], 1996.
- Deborah Crowe; The Dowse Art Museum, [http://repository.digitalnz.org/system/uploads/record/attachment/755/4th_new_zealand_jewellery_biennale__grammar__subjects_and_objects.pdf 4th New Zealand Jewellery Biennale: Grammar: Subjects and Objects], 2001.
- [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Person/44621 Pauline Bern] in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Category:New Zealand jewellers
Category:Academic staff of Unitec Institute of Technology
Category:New Zealand women jewellers
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