About

Raewyn Walsh is a jeweller who lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2025 April, A Leaky Abstraction, group show, Nelson Jewellery Week
2025 March, Goodness, group show, Munich, Germany
2024 December, Let’s Play, Raumati group show, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2024 November, 20th Birthday, group show, The National, Christchurch
2024 October, Victory Over Death, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney Australia
2024 June, Blue Sky Thinking, The Jewel and The Jeweller, New Plymouth
2024 May, Autumn Splendor, solo show, The National, Christchurch
2024 May, Bead Up, group show, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2024 April, 67206 Days, 2276 Full Moons, Handshake alumni, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney
2024 April, Swamp Witch, group show, The Jewel and The Jeweller, New Plymouth
2023 December, Whanui, Handshake alumni show, The National, Christchurch
2023 July, Touch of a Button, group show, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2023 April, A Jewellers Game, Nelson Jewellers Week
2023 April, Buffet, group show, Nelson Jewellery Week
2022 December, Galerie Marzee, Handshake Exhibition, Netherlands
2022 September, A Stone, An Echo, A Sign, Jewellery Triennial, Objectspace, Auckland
2022 July, Schmuck, Munich, Germany
2021 December, Raumati: Summer Salon, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2021 September, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
2021 August, Leading Lights, masterworks
2021 July, Preview, Kiwi Schmuck, The Jewel and the Jeweller, New Plymouth
2021 April, Chain Reaction, Nelson Jewellery Week
2021 April, Cancelled, Paper Planes window, Nelson
2021 March, Schmuck, Munich Germany (postponed to 2022)
2020 December, The Christmas Show, The National, Christchurch
2020 September, The Broach of the Month, The Jewel and the Jeweller, New Plymouth
2020 August, Atta Gallery, 10 year Anniversary Show, Bangkok, Thailand
2020 May, The Shell Project, solo show, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2019 March, Frame Galleries with The National, Munich, Germany
2019 February, Tableau: group show, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2018 December, The Art of Giving, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2018 April, Shelf Life: group show, Bowen Galleries, Wellington
2017 August, Handshake at Atta Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 July, Reflect: Handshake 3, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
2017 June, I like reality. It doesn’t terrify me: group show, Paris, France
2017 May, The Rock Garden: solo show, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland
2016, Solo show, The National, Christchurch

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2013 - present, founding member of The Jewellers Guild of Greater Sandringham
2018 - ongoing, Drinking About Jewellery social events
2014 Munich Jewellery Week, social club
2011 - 2016, editor Overview, jewellery newsletter
2011 - 2013 board trustee, Objectspace, Auckland

WRITING
2024 Leaflet#02, contributor
2013 How Knowledge Travels, essay for The Handshake Project
2012 The Possession Obsession of Cocoa Vitako, catalogue essay for Octavia Cook
2011 - 2016, Overview Jewellery Newsletter, editor and contributor

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, FURTHER EDUCATION
2013 - 2024 The Handshake Project – mentee and alumni
2024 Artist Residency, The Jewel and The Jeweller, New Plymouth
2012 Alumni Residency, Unitec, Auckland
2011 Objective Art Award
2010 Masterworks Gallery Graduate Award

EDUCATION
2010 Bachelor of Design (first class honours), Unitec, Auckland