Elegy is an exhibition of ‘mourning jewellery’ by a group of 12 Australian women artists, reflecting on the loss of ecology and biodiversity.

David Bielander presents recent works in a new solo exhibition.

Jiro Kamata’s investigations of light and reflectivity find new expression in this exhibition, as he presents several new series of works.

Linked is an entirely new body of work by renowned Australian jeweller Carlier Makigawa.

Karl Fritsch and Lisa Walker have been at the forefront of contemporary jewellery for over 20 years, constantly pushing and questioning what jewellery is and can be.

Akiko Kurihara’s work is firmly rooted in the traditions of classical jewellery but draws its ideas from everywhere. It is full of wit and curiosity, communicated with the clarity and flair of a master technician. This is her first exhibition in Australia.

Sue Lorraine has been playing with materials, techniques, ideas and concepts to tease out the space between the quantifiable and the abstract and build a collection of found, altered and fabricated wearable and non-wearable objects.

Hang On To A Dream is an intimate exhibition drawing on the rich inspiration Lucy Sarneel finds in history, play and the small magic of every day.

Melbourne artist Marcos Guzman presents his first solo exhibition.

Melbourne artist Jo Scicluna and German jeweller Katrin Feulner work in different disciplines, but each makes work that concentrates at the point where two elements meet. ‘Visitors’ brings these artists as guests to Funaki for an exhibition that explores the nature of aesthetic objects, in balance and tension, across two fields of art practice.

Daniel Kruger returns to Melbourne after ten years, with a new exhibition of works that explore the effect of culturally specific design on personal identity.

Gallery Funaki (Melbourne) and The National (Christchurch) present STOCKROOM, a collaborative project held across both galleries through April and May.

We are pleased to present Japanese artist Michihiro Sato’s first Australian solo exhibition, Possession.

Craig McIntosh presents his first Australian solo exhibition.

The 2018 Mari Funaki Award presents work by 30 emerging and established artists from around the world.

Inari Kiuru, Lore Langendries and Hyun-seok Sim draw out the transformative and surprising qualities of a single material.

From a beaded object that looks like a face to an abstract ornament that frames the face: MAKING FACES – A Jewellery Playbook is a new project by Manon van Kouswijk.

MOON brings the work of renowned Spanish artist Marc Monzó to Australia.

A survey of contemporary vessels by Australian and international makers, curated by Natasha Sutila.

INTERFERENZ presents the recent work of Berlin based jeweller Thanh-Truc Nguyen, and is her first solo exhibition in Australia.

Ten jewellers from China reveal the international outlook of the movement in this major exhibition, co-curated with Professor Norman Cherry.

In an inspired contemporary interpretation of Ormolu, silversmith Julie Blyfield and ceramicist Kirsten Coelho have collaborated to create a suite of porcelain containers with intricate silver lids and an accompanying collection of jewellery.

One of Australia’s most respected metalsmiths presents a new body of work that draws on the experience of Victorian coastal environments.

Award winning jeweller Peter Hoogeboom trained as a contemporary jeweller at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and began using ceramics in his work in 1994.  Chinawear is his first Australian exhibition.

Carlier’s fine wire structures contain varied and complex evocations…

We are proud to present new work by five up and coming artists from Melbourne and Canberra: Zoe Brand, Annie Gobel, Marcos Guzman, Inari Kiuru and Lindy McSwan.

Kiko Gianocca’s fourth solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki is titled Pareidolia, which refers to the human trait of perceiving in an object or sound a pattern or meaning that doesn’t actually exist.

In Blanche’s hands, glass and metal are transformed into limpid jewellery that spills and flows and falls down and round the body, circling it with light, […] yet in this latest work we see a fundamental shift in direction — a clear cut.

The Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery is a biennial international Award that showcases excellence in international and Australian contemporary jewellery.  35 artists have been shortlisted from an international field of 413 entries from 48 countries.

Otto Künzli and Therese Hilbert return to Melbourne after six years, for an exhibition of new works, including the first pieces in important new series.

“The imaginings of our childhood selves live on in all kinds of interesting ways”.
(Natasha Mitchell, in conversation on Ratio National, sometime in October 2016)

This work is the same as what I have always done: except maybe this time I have allowed myself to be quieter, to see how close I can get; to know the many I love and have loved and how they are here, or not here, and not to be frightened or distracted by what I find.

Peter Bauhuis’s first Australian show in 10 years explores his innovative and idiosyncratic casting techniques applied to vessels and jewellery.

Maureen Faye-Chauhan’s beautifully considered steel forms play with optical illusion, creating complex interior spaces within sophisticated geometric structures.

Gallery Funaki is pleased to welcome the joint winners of the emerging prize from the 2014 Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery,  Patrícia Correia Domingues and Sara Gackowska.

Gallery Funaki presents the work of Japanese artist Jiro Kamata, in dark to light to dark; his first Australian solo exhibition.

Warwick Freeman’s 10th solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki, showing as part of Melbourne’s first Radiant Pavilion event.

Gallery Funaki celebrates its 20th anniversary with an exhibition by some of our longest-standing artists.

Emma Fielden interrogates the notion of micro- and macrocosm; how a small part connects to and defines a whole, in iota, her first solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki.

Two renowned Dutch jewellers present an exhibition of their recent work. Manon van Kouswijk, who currently lives and works in Melbourne, explores fragmentary forms in porcelain.

David Bielander returns to Melbourne for a new exhibition, following on from his career-high exhibition, Demiurge at the Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem.

“When I’m making my work, although I rarely have a clear idea of the end result, I am in pursuit of a fleeting vision that I chase along until the pieces start to materialize on my worktable.”

Gallery Funaki presents a new body of work from Karl Fritsch.  Selected works will also be shown from a recent collaboration between Fritsch and Auckland based photographer Gavin Hipkins.

The inaugural Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery, won by Kiko Gianocca, Sara Gackowska and Patrícia Correia Domingues.

Svenja John presents a new collection of pieces in her first exhibition in Australia since 2009.

second nature, n.
An acquired behavior or trait that is so long practiced as to seem innate.

To launch Gallery Funaki’s new interior, we’re pleased to present New Edition; a curated exhibition that explores the multiple/edition in contemporary jewellery.

Gallery Funaki proudly presents a group exhibition by six artists who met and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Attai Chen, Carina Chitsaz-Shoshtary, Sungho Cho, Laura Deakin, Melanie Isverding and Emma Price.

In her first solo exhibition at Gallery Funaki, Munich based artist Henriette Schuster presents a collection of jewellery that uses precious metals in simple, almost naïve ways to explore basic aesthetic relationships between two similar forms.

Japanese born, German based artist Yutaka Minegishi presents his first solo exhibition in Australia.

Marian Hosking’s recent research has taken her to familiar coastal and inland environments around Victoria and NSW.

“Making my jewellery feels like having a mystery-flight-ticket in the pocket, not knowing where one will end up. But at the same time I do have an aim. In the end there should be a damned good piece of jewellery.”

Warwick Freeman’s latest exhibition explores form, material and the quiet profundity of the everyday object.

Nature and Structure is an exhibition by one of Australia’s most accomplished artists working at the height of her powers.

If our collective subconscious brain could turn its pockets inside out, showing the world what we are really made of, it would look like Lisa’s work.

Modernism’s dreams of the future may have become the stuff of our past, but through her jewellery, Blanche Tilden recognises in its most utopian moments an idea which still has the power to enchant us: that of a building made of glass…

Collected with passion by fashion and art movers and shakers, and awarded the highest honours in contemporary jewellery, Fritsch’s work is also held in public collections worldwide.

The jewellery of Kiko Gianocca (Switzerland) and Marc Monzó (Spain) is born of a need to make sense of the temporality, connectedness and the personal.

“The works in this exhibition are a collection of forms made in relation to one another, the previous one giving the next a reason for existing. They form an installation of a kind, perhaps a never-ending conundrum of propositions.”

In her latest work, Dutch artist Manon van Kouswijk explores the idea of a strand of beads as a cycle without a clear beginning or end.

It isn’t always an easy companionship we share with Simon’s work. It can deny us easy access and require real focus: this is its challenge and its reward. As Simon says, “these pieces are not conceived to be made clear sense of”.

“I aim to walk that fine line between making something simple…and at the same time abstract enough that it allows a shift to happen, that the piece becomes something altogether new when it unpredictably connects with you.”

“Steel bridges, steel lines in the snow, construction site grey dust, an assemblage of materials that will be ordered and built back into the cold, greasy grey.”