Wunderruma - New Zealand Jewellery

Hook and Sinker Publications, Wellington, 2014. The Dowse Art Museum, 120 pages, A4 format. Minor signs of secondhand wear to cover extremities, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Wunderr?ma brings together over 200 pieces by more than 75 contemporary New Zealand jewellers and artists as well as M?ori taonga and Pacific and historical European jewellery.

Wunderr?ma is curated by Warwick Freeman and Karl Fritsch, two of New Zealand?s most prominent jewellers. They say, ?jewellery can be found in many different places and practices. Wunderruma is not a history of New Zealand jewellery, or pronouncement on contemporary making in this country. Instead, it reflects what two artists see from their viewpoints (local and international) when they look at adornment in Aotearoa New Zealand.?

The title ?Wunderr?ma? plays with the German word Wunderkammer (wonder room or cabinet of curiosities) and the M?ori transliteration of the word ?room?. While contemporary jewellery is the centre of the exhibition, historical, customary, fine art and industrial sources which parallel and influence this are also included.