Gallery
Fingers
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Fingers is a gallery in Auckland Region, New Zealand.
About Fingers
Fingers is a contemporary jewellery gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. Fingers shows and sells the work primarily of New Zealand jewellers, but also of international jewellers, mostly from Australia and Europe.
Established in 1974, Fingers is the longest running institution of its type in New Zealand, and one of the longest running contemporary jewellery spaces in the world. It began when jeweller Alan Preston, after a stint as a Guest Artist at Brown's Mill Market, New Zealand's first craft co-operative, approached jewellers Ruth Baird, Roy Mason, Margaret Philips and Michael Ayling to open a jewellery shop on Auckland's Lorne Street. The name 'Fingers' was chosen because all the jewellers were at the time making rings.
Fingers by the numbers
- Founded
- 1974
Museums near Fingers
- National Museum Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington City, New Zealand
- Art Museum Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
- Art Museum National Library of Australia Canberra Central, Australia
- Art Museum National Gallery of Victoria City of Melbourne, Australia
- Art Museum Honolulu Museum of Art Honolulu, United States
- Art Museum Lopez Museum Pasig, Philippines
