SOME of Britain's best jewellers have been busy putting the last touches to an exhibition at a North-East museum.
The Bowes Museum, in Barnard Castle, County Durham, will display award-winning work by ten of the country's top jewellers, between January 20 and March 11.
The work is taken from pieces exhibited for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2000, and is the first of four contemporary art and design shows at the museum this year.
The display will coincide with a touring exhibition of jewellery made from everyday materials such as plastic bottles, safety pins, balloons and paper.
The museum will take that exhibition, entitled Extra-ordinary, on a tour of art colleges in the region, with jewellers holding workshops during each visit.
The tour will finish at the Bowes Museum, alongside the Jerwood exhibition, between March 4 and 11, with a workshop by Elizabeth Callinicos, on March 10.
The itinerary for the Extra-ordinary touring exhibition is: Cumbria Art College, Carlisle; Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington; Northumberland College, Ashington; Cleveland College, Middlesbrough and Gateshead College, in Gateshead.
For further information contact the Bowes Museum, on (01833) 690606.
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