In collaboration with Handshake6, Iris Eichenberg will be presenting a lecture that reflects on her 30 years of work within contemporary jewellery.

Some Things Do Get Better will contemplate what it means to become an artist; the successes and the failures, the insights gained along the way, the importance of process, and the need to respond to shifting contexts and changing environments.

Having moved her practice from the Netherlands to the United States of America 13 years ago, Eichenberg considers working and living in different worlds to be both a gift and a loss.

The opportunity to distance herself from understanding a particular notion of taste has provided her with the space to contradict herself and to keep on raising questions about making and being. There is beauty in growing older and trusting a sense of productive confusion. Some things do get better.