Dear Fellow Jeweller

As you may be aware, every year the graduating students of RMIT Gold
and Silversmithing hold an auction to raise money for the graduate
exhibition and accompanying exhibition catalogue. The class of 2010
would like to invite you to participate in this event by donating a work
for auction.

The RMIT Gold and Silversmithing auction has become a well known annual
event within the jewellery community, drawing attention from both
collectors and the public. All current RMIT Gold and Silversmithing
students contribute to the auction by donating their works for sale and,
as in the past, we are also seeking contributions from the broader
community of jewellery, objects and silversmithing to offer for sale at
the auction.

Any contribution that you are able to make will be of valuable
assistance to us, very sincerely appreciated and acknowledged in the
2010 graduation exhibition catalogue.

Whether or not you are able to donate a work, we warmly invite you to
attend and share with us what promises to be a great evening.

RMIT Gold and Silversmithing Auction
The Order of Melbourne – 2/401 Swanston St, Melbourne

Wednesday 11th August 2010
Preview work from 6.00pm
Auction begins 7.00pm

Donated pieces for the auction can be delivered to the RMIT Gold and
Silversmithing Departmen preferably no later than Wednesday the 4th August.
(However we can receive and process last minute donations until Monday August 9.)

Deliveries to: Gold and Silversmithing 3rd year studio, Building 2,
Level A, Room 04, RMIT City campus, 124 Latrobe Street Melbourne.

If you have any queries regarding this event, please contact
Mark Edgoose on (03) 9925 3540 or
Courtney Jackson on 0422 130 535.

We thank you for your kind support and hope you can assist us in our fundraising efforts.

Yours sincerely,
Graduating Students 2010

about this
annual event

The RMIT Gold and Silversmithing auction has become a well known occasion within the jewellery community, drawing attention from both collectors and the public. It is a great opportunity to purchase work by established artists, as well as to acquire pieces at competitive prices from emerging makers – before they catapult into global stardom and add zeros to their price tags ; ) It is a fun night out too, with food and drinks available at the venue, to be shared with good company … in between furious bidding, of course!

All current RMIT Gold and Silversmithing students contribute by donating their works for sale, and traditionally alumni, other supportive practitioners and the broader jewellery community have also pitched in by donating jewellery and objects for the auction. The proceedings will go into producing, and will be acknowledged in, the exhibition catalogue for the graduation exhibition – to be held at Thousand Pound Bend, Little Londsdale Street, in early November this year.

Invitation to participate in the 2010 auction