by Mia Straka | Jul 29, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Practicing NOT making jewellery NOT using metal To move beyond where I’m at It’s a challenge Everything wants to be a necklace Collecting, Deconstructing, Reconstructing A double sided homemade cardboard loom with a built in hole Site for experimental...
by Nikki Perry | Jul 29, 2020 | Handshake6, Nikki Perry
I truly have no idea what I have done since I wrote my last blog. I’ve been looking back at Meret Oppenheim’s compositions, marvelling at Keith Sonnier’s colours and neons, trawling through Hilary Mantel’s latest novel The Mirror and the Light. The daily explorations...
by Amelia Rothwell | Jul 29, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
“Read things in the style that you would like your voice to sound like – so that it can be your inspiration and you can study it – absorb it through osmosis.” “Read what you love, not what you think you ‘should’ read.” “Find a way to write about your work...
by Vivien Atkinson | Jul 26, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Vivien Atkinson
The Convention Reformed Some time has passed since I became aware of the quiet movement to make the repair of garments a feature and also a contemporary art project. Liz Allen had the 2004 Summer Residency at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington. Called Mendt,...
by Simon Swale | Jul 24, 2020 | Handshake6, Simon Swale
It seems to be the nature of contemporary life that history erupts upon the surface of our lives in ever more frequent waves. There seems a volatility in the fabric of society that has created tension and unease. The papered over cracks of history are being torn apart...
by Antonia Boyle | Jul 23, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
I’ve been exploring holes a lot in my work lately so I thought I would write a list of all the different words for holes that I can think of. Holes continue to be a running theme throughout my current works and I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of...
by Jack Hadley | Jul 22, 2020 | Handshake6, Jack Hadley
Left: Hannah Ireland, Closed Curtains, 2020 Right: Jack Hadley, Baroque Flower Indigo Storm Blue, 2020 Image: Weasel gallery Two weeks ago, I exhibited my jewellery for the first time. This was part of the exhibition HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON at Weasel Gallery. 11 of the...
by Aphra Cheesman | Jul 21, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
I’ve been lucky to have had plenty of time at the workshop this year. Investigating everyday objects and materials, I have kept the parameters in which I am working broad, allowing my environment and the things within it to direct me. Walking, noticing, collecting…...
by Amelia Rothwell | Jul 20, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
I want to make work that is intimate; that makes people want to touch it, to hold it; that touches people.
by Fran Leitch | Jul 19, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6, Sample
July work! After my last session with Iris on Friday morning these are some of the question and avenues I find myself traversing at the moment after our discussion…she also asked where does your work sit; is it sentimental, Melancholy or Nostalgic? I find it at...
by Fran Leitch | Jul 19, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
June 2020 Hand, cotton and sunlight! June 2020 sleeves and buttons A play with pattern. I couldn’t find my hands to create things during lockdown, I could see them but couldn’t use them how I wanted! To get into this work physically I have to have someone to...
by Amelia Rothwell | Jul 15, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
We Are Not the Poem. ‘The problem is we think we exist. We think our words are permanent and solid and stamp us forever. That’s not true. We write in the moment. Sometimes when I read poems at a reading to strangers, I realize they think those poems are me....
