ACQUISITIONS
 The acquisitions the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery has made in jewellery art form an important section within the Toowoomba City Collection. Works for the jewellery collection are purchased from each Contemporary Wearables Exhibition to create a representative selection of quality crafted jewellery. This collection is the basis for the Gallery's plan to establish Toowoomba as a centre of excellence in jewellery art.

The jewellery collection also holds works from the past. The Toowoomba Art Gallery through the Gallery Society recently acquired two pieces by the early twentieth century jewellery artist Rhoda Wager and her niece Dorothy Wager. To enhance the scope of the collection the Gallery Society also seeks works with historical significance. The Society has purchased for the collection an Australian miner's piece from the late 1800s. The first purchase for the jewellery collection was funded by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Subsequent pieces from the Exhibitions have been acquired by the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and the Toowoomba Gallery Society. 

 

1989 Toowoomba Gallery Society  
Osculations neck piece set by Margaret Kirkwood  
Marine melody brooch  by Robyn Gordon  
 
1991 Toowoomba Gallery Society  
The First 200 years brooch  by Pierre Cavalan  
Fragment of a lost memory brooch  by Glenice Matthews 

1993 Gordon Darling Foundation  
Linear bandolier neckpiece  by Rowena Gough  
Pendant  by Carolyn Delzoppo  
One last shooter bracelet by   Felicity Peters  

1995 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery  
Yabbie bracelet  by Dore Stockhausen  
Red emperor neck and shoulder adornment  
by William Dowd and Leslie Angus  
Toil ring/pendant by Roseanne Bartley  
Enzym necklace by Karl Millard  

1997 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Changing form neckpiece by Brenda Ridgewell
Five brooches by Sally Marsland
Spring grasses brooch by Eugene Keefer-Bell 
Inside/outside neckpiece by Julie Blyfield 
Gold porpita neckpiece by Giselle Courtney

1999 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery 
Wahn (Black Crow) dreaming, neckpiece by Viliama Grakalic 
Two of Various pendants by Joung-Mee Do 
Skin & bone no. II by Mascha Moje 
Five brooches by Catherine Truman 
Captivating arm bands by Anila Williams 
Body wrap (brown),  by Vanessa Raimondo 
Wedding ring neckpiece by Sarah Anthony 
Legend and landforms by Carolyn McKinnon 

2001 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Contraption #1 Lillienthal #2 Flapper by Brendan Adair-Smith
Fairy dust by Elizabeth Bower
inny & outie by Trevor Byron
Vinyl parure by Anna Davern
Interactive neckpiece by Carole-Anne Fooks
Strength and hope within by Colleen Hamill
Helix by Annalyse McLeod
Snakey by Sean O'Connell
Dragon teeth by Jeanette Rein
Rhythm V by Louise Tasker
It's about love series by Robyn Wernicke

2003 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Found out by Roseanne Bartley
Shag brooches by Stephen Gallagher
Multiples of 3 by Miriam Gribble
5 Rings with moving parts by Phoebe Porter
Redware by MJ Ryan Bennett

2005 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Trio of posts by Linda Hughes
Dark to light by Jo Wright
Pocket clip series by Elodie Darwish
Card ring set by Christine Hall
Pattern interchange #3 by Rik Juod
Phyton in white (neckpeice) by Isobel Wise

2007 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
McCruiskeen rings # 1-3 by Brendan Adair-Smith
Inspired by the gerkin by Felicity Peters
A wish for innovation by Mia-Lee Ching
Dilute necklace by Blanche Tilden
Chameleon by Claire Brooks
Paper bracelet by Ja Young Cho

2009 Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Marina's compact: radial pattern by Melissa Cameron
Tinkering series by Vicki Mason
Assigned function (series) by Jane Millard
Ruby balltrack bracelet by Sean O'connell
My black night by Nicole Polentas
General assembly brooches by Studio Hacienda

 
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