Pauline Bern

New Zealand jeweller (born 1952)

Pauline Bern

Born|

Pauline Bern

1952 (age 72-73)

Auckland, New Zealand

Known for| Jewellery

Pauline Bern (born 1952) is a New Zealand jeweller.

## Early life

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Bern was born in Auckland in 1952.

## Career

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Bern is a self-taught jeweller who began making jewellery while living in the United States in the 1970s.[1] She has exhibited consistently in New Zealand since the mid 1980s.[2] In 1988 she became a lecturer in craft design at Carrington Polytechnic in Auckland (now Unitec Institute of Technology).[3] 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.[2]

## Work

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Bern's work often references domestic activity.[4] A necklace of silver strands woven to resemble small steel wool pot scrubbers won her the Thomas Foundation Gold Award in 2000,[5] 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.[5]

## Recognition

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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.[6] Major exhibitions include 'Strain, Grate, Whisk, Scrub' which toured New Zealand galleries in 2000–01 and 'Colonial Goose' at Objectspace, Auckland, in 2011.[6][7]

## References

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1. ^ "Pauline Bern". Avid Gallery. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
2. ^ a b Tyler, Linda (Summer 2014). "From small beginnings come beautiful things". Arts news. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
3. ^ Skinner, Damian (2010). Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry. San Francisco: Velvet Da Vinci and The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston. p. 60\. ISBN 9780615340104.
4. ^ Skinner, Damian; Murray, Kevin (2014). Place and Adornment: A history of contemporary jewellery in Australia and New Zealand. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. p. 220\. ISBN 9781454702771.
5. ^ a b Clifford, Andrew (17 November 2004). "At the end of the garden". NZ Herald. APN New Zealand Limited.
6. ^ a b "Auckland jeweller relishes residency opportunity". Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. 19 June 2003. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014. ==Exhibitions==
7. ^ "Colonial Goose". Objectspace. Retrieved 6 December 2014.

## External links

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* Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Strain, grate, whisk, scrub : jewellery by Pauline Bern, Auckland: DOT, 2000. ISBN 047306927X
* Bronwyn Lloyd, 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, The Second New Zealand Jewellery Biennial: Same But Different, 1996.
* Deborah Crowe; The Dowse Art Museum, 4th New Zealand Jewellery Biennale: Grammar: Subjects and Objects, 2001.
* Pauline Bern in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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