by Nina van Duijnhoven | Apr 26, 2020 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
I have been up and down. A lot of my mood has had to do with the uncertainty, being in limbo, not knowing where I am going, what I will be doing. For a while I was to be able to put it to rest, happily going with the flow and dealing with it as it comes. Right now,...
by Mia Straka | Apr 23, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Jewellery for me is a medium to connect, it has brought Manon and I together via the internet, the tool which most of us are using to keep in touch with family and loved ones during coronavirus lockdown, plus to connect with the outside world. What role might...
by Macarena Bernal | Apr 17, 2020 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal
Photo of the aftermath. Maca Bernal- Monika Brugger. April 15th 2020, 9 am France, 7pm New Zealand. Handshake during Covid pandemic times……….. I had my first meeting with Monika and this is what came out of it; Nothing is completely new,...
by Simon Swale | Apr 17, 2020 | Handshake6, Simon Swale
LOCKDOWN… What a difference a few weeks make. This is a crazy time…. Just struggling to get any perspective on life at the moment. At least we have art I suppose…. My MFA exhibition was meant to open, basically the day we went into lock down. It is still there in the...
by Michelle Wilkinson | Apr 14, 2020 | Handshake6, Michelle Wilkinson
Adventures in lockdown This new world is different. Just like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in 1872, we are now submerged in a backwards place. Busy roads are quiet, concert halls and office buildings are silent, and galleries are closed. Time is not quite running backwards,...
by Aphra Cheesman | Apr 5, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
These are strange times. The change of routine and having to stay at home can’t help but affect how we work as artists and what we make. For me, the past month has been full of experiments and different ways of working. Thinking about Renee Bevans PUSH/PULL workshop,...
