New Zealand jewellery is seen in the wider world as a free spirit that turns away from convention and description.

Obviously, the work comes from makers who connects to their ideas, and those ideas occur from the two islands in the middle of the Pacific, far away from the accumulation of common institutional conventions.
New Zealand history is built upon pioneering spirits. Its contemporary jewellery history is still traceable with most artists still active. In this exhibition are a few of those pioneering spirits who showed inspiring ways throughout their careers.

Sieraden from Aotearoa New-Zealand is brought to the Netherlands by MAKERS101 and curated by Marie-José van den Hout in cooperation with The Handshake Project