by Michelle Wilkinson | Jul 13, 2020 | Handshake6, Michelle Wilkinson, Sample
To escape from my head, I began to engage my hands. I started using what was stashed in my workshop – wire, paper, thread. These didn’t give me what I wanted, they were too considered and not organic enough for me. I then discovered an unopened...
by Susan Videler | Jul 9, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I wish to show with the following photographs how salient colour is when making work. As I said in my previous blog, as a result of answers to questions about colour with regard to anxiety, I experimented with dyes, on bone, silks and wood. ...
by Jack Hadley | Jul 9, 2020 | Handshake6, Jack Hadley
My jewellery practice has typically incorporated traditional jewellery materials: silver, gold and cheap gemstones. Recently, this has started to feel expensive and a bit limiting. I have started playing around with some new materials like aluminium, lead and rubber....
by Antonia Boyle | Jul 5, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
All of these images were taken out and about in my neighbourhood.
by Kylie Sinkovich | Jul 4, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Kylie Sinkovich
Japanese design and architecture This has been a source I continually draw on as inspiration since I began my contemporary jewellery journey almost 9 years ago. It probably also stems back even further with a few trips to Japan in my formative years, studying the...
by Susan Videler | Jul 3, 2020 | Handshake6, Sample, Susan Videler
At the conclusion of the second Zoom meeting when we were in lockdown level one, I asked folk to respond to questions about stress/anxiety. Overwhelmingly the colours associated were red and black, a rogue vomit brown, navy and mustard appeared also. Tentacles and...
by admin | Jul 2, 2020 | Exhibition, Handshake6
Handshake in Hamilton is a group exhibition co-curated by contemporary art collector, Garth O’Brien, and Weasel Gallery Director, Laree Payne. Handshake in Hamilton presents a diverse range of contemporary jewellery from the Handshake 6 cohort alongside paintings by...
