Protagonist*innen
Katie Scott
The owner and director of Funaki, an internationally recognised space for contemporary jewellery and objects. With her background as an artisan and her experience in administration and the art scene, Katie Scott took the helm of Funaki in 2010. Since then, Funaki has nurtured and expanded its networks with local and international museums, collectors and makers, launched the Mari Funaki Award (2014-2018) and will launch with a new salon model in Melbourne's CBD in late 2021.
Carlier Makigawa
Internationally renowned Australian artist and Emeritus Professor at RMIT University Melbourne. Works with metals and found materials in a three-dimensional, architectural way close to the body. Inspired by urban forms and nature, in her latest exhibition "Morphology" she creates absence and form, something that is not there and yet is present.
Jill Stovel
Cultural journalist based in Newcastle NSW, Australia. Invited Helen Britton to lunch because she wanted to write an article about her research stay in Newcastle for the local paper and found herself on the screen.
John Parkes
Fellow student and artist friend. Poet, textile artist, painter and collector, prefers to spend most of his time in the bush.
Dianne Beevers
Collector, lecturer, artist and designer with a studio in Newcastle NSW, Australia.
Atty Tantivit
Atta Gallery, Bangkok, probably the only gallery for contemporary jewellery in Thailand.
Harald Wild
Generations of gemstone traders, the Wild brothers in Idar-Oberstein, have a 150-year family history. With branches in Paris, Berlin, London - in the past. Only recently, Harald Wild handed over the company correspondence of the family business to the town archives in Idar-Oberstein: 200 kg. of paper.
Ted Snell
Art professor and curator in Perth, Australia. Promoted Helen Britton's work early on and brought her 25-year retrospective "Intersticies" to the University of Western Australia for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in 2017.
Karl-Dieter Braun
With great dedication, he guides visitors through the former Jacob Bengel gallantry goods factory in Idar-Oberstein. For four generations from the 1920s, Jacob Bengel was the leading manufacturer of Art Deco costume jewellery. Today, the building is an industrial monument and home to the foundation of the same name.
Ernstotto Biehl
Artisan of gemstone processing. For four generations, he has been cutting stones in the historic agate loop "Asbacherhütte" in the Hunsrück region, unchanged from the old tradition. Every stone, he says, is unique and has its own inner life.