by Vanessa Arthur | May 30, 2019 | Handshake5, Vanessa Arthur
I mapped out a structured way to respond to this project and Onnos selected pieces, I planned to make a series of responses to each work – focusing on these in three parts….one piece at a time. So orderly! This format may have come from the added pressure...
by Sandra Schmid | May 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Sample, Sandra Schmid
Why did I investigate into plastic when the original work by Dorothea Prühl is made from wood and called ‘Tiere’ (animals). What seems to be contradictory is based on me growing up in the controversy time of abundance of plastic toys and my parents’ love and concern...
by Sandra Schmid | May 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
The ‘Poly’ Petting Zoo While developing work for the exhibitions at CODA, Appledorn and TeUru, Auckland I got drawn into the multitudinousness world of plastics. A topic as complex as the abundance of different plastics in our daily lives and also one of...
by Nik Hanton | May 20, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
The showing of Eva Rothschild’s, Kosmos, at the Wellington City Gallery couldn’t have happened at a better time for me. I’ve already been looking at her work intently over the last few months so the opportunity to see it in person is excellent. While...
by Becky Bliss | May 15, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
If you were in any doubt who specific toys were targeted to, take a look at the packaging. Let’s look at statistics of engineers relatively recently in the US (since there’s a few meccano boxes specifically for engineering). Women account for 47% of...
by Becky Bliss | May 15, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
The first plastic was developed in 1869. It was called celluloid and one of its first uses was to produce a white billiard ball (to replace ivory). Bakelite shortly followed. Oil was cheap, and the toy industry was gradually taken over. It was also very flammable. It...
by Becky Bliss | May 15, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
Pre-war. Toys were made of wood, fabric, die-cast metals. Toys generally reflected the perceptions of society. Most came with gender values, designed to socialise children to behave with the gender expectations of their society (childhood by design). Some of the most...
by Vivien Atkinson | May 12, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
One of the sessions during Roseanne Bartley’s workshop at the beginning of the year was based on the idea of using a list of verbs as the basis for working with one of the materials we had brought. Having a list of words (materials, colours, times, actions) as the...
by Sarah Read | May 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Read
I once read an interview with a (Scandinavian?) jeweller who said “a walk can be a necklace”. They referred to the boost of getting into nature for body, mind and spirit; like jewellery, but worn on the inside. Later, I drove myself crazy trying to trace...
by Neke Moa | May 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
The processes of creating are different each time I tackle a project. They can often start the same..materials being often a starting point. With the Coda pieces, it makes life a bit easier? different at least to be able to have a conversation and dialogue with...
by Caroline Thomas | May 3, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
For CODA I’ve been exploring ideas around genealogy, genetics and family trees. What kinship do my pieces share with the three original works they are responding to? How many branches of the family tree separate them and what are the different lineages that...
by Sandra Schmid | May 3, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
While developing the work in response to the artist chosen by CODA Museum I got a little sidetracked… or not? The work will be around the contemporary interpretation/ response therefore current political and environmental issues made their way into the...
