Schoonhoven Silver Award/ SSA 2018

Abstract

The Schoonhoven Silver Award is an initiative of the ‘Stichting Zilverkunst’ (Silver Art Foundation) and takes place under the museum’s auspices of the Nederlands Zilvermuseum in Schoonhoven. The Award’s most recent editions have been dedicated to promoting contemporary ‘great, silver art’ to a broader, art-minded audience, with the emphasis on innovative silver concepts.

The Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 continues to be devoted to the goal of reaching a wider audience and inspiring artists to test and explore the boundaries of their traditional art and craft. More particularly, the Nederlands Zilvermuseum Schoonhoven seeks to invite submissions that bear a direct relationship with the spearheads of the museum’s policy, i.e. stimulating the exploration of new technologies and uses, and innovative art forms. Innovation, as envisioned in the Award’s present edition, would centre on the rejuvenation of older, time-honoured techniques, and on the preservation of an immaterial heritage by injecting dynamic new life.

My selected object 'Pearlinder #3' was awarded with the 'Herens Honarable Mention'. Catalogue: Cazemier, R., Teheux, M., Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018, Schoonhoven: Nederlands Zilvermuseum, 2018.