by Rose Pickernell | Feb 27, 2023 | Handshake8, Rose Pickernell
As we got stuck into our introductions with Estela Saez, it dawned on me that I was the youngest participant with the least experience of making outside of study. I like to think I make up for my lack of awards and exhibitions with ambition and a real thirst for...
by admin | Feb 27, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Handshake offers a tried a true package of exploration, development, feedback and presentation. It’s an opportunity to get new perspectives and to improve, to make good work and to share that good work with others. ….And I really want to make good work. But what is...
by Fran Carter | Feb 23, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
When I got the news I’d been accepted into the HANDSHAKE Programme at the end of January I was both terrified and excited. It was my 3rd time applying to this highly regarded mentorship program over the years, so I am stoked to have finally made it here, and...
by Nellie Peoples | Feb 23, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
We recently undertook our first class with the incredible Estela Saez, who is guiding us in the development and honing of our design thinking and making processes. In this first virtual class Estela got us straight into action! We underwent some making exercises under...
by Nellie Peoples | Feb 23, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Through the HANDSHAKE program my intent is to propel my practice further forward, to continue to push technical and creative boundaries as well as further develop my skill set within professional practices. I see the HANDSHAKE program as an incredible invaluable...
by Lisa van Hulst | Feb 17, 2023 | Handshake8, Lisa van Hulst
Before even getting to Estela Saez Vilanova’s first masterclass for handshake 8 I had feelings of plunging into an alien creative pressure cooker. Our brief was to bring three oversized (larger than our head) objects, that we could transform. Rushing through the local...
by Nellie Peoples | Feb 17, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Kia Ora. My name is Nellie Peoples, I am a designer and maker. My practice is based in contemporary jewellery and small objects. I am living, working and making in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, from a home studio, which (when I open the roller door)...
by admin | Feb 16, 2023 | Handshake8, News
Welcome to HandShake 8, 2023-24 HS8 is a 2-year programme that encourages experimentation, feedback, development, and exhibiting. Twelve emerging artists selected by Estela Saez Vilanova (Barcelona) start off with a series of masterclasses in which depth and content...
by Caroline Thomas | Feb 9, 2023 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake7
The workshop with Estela Saez was a frustrating, humbling, infuriating and ultimately rewarding experience. Estela is an expert at shining a light on flabby thinking and boy, did I have to shape up and work hard to get my works ready for Galerie Marzee as a result!...
by Simon Swale | Feb 8, 2023 | Handshake7, Simon Swale
After many false starts, explorations. experimentations and near breakdowns… we got there. It was another wild ride on the runaway bus that is the Handshake Project, and this one- Handshake7, was almost the one that broke the camels back. Overlapping with the tail end...
by Kristin D'Agostino | Feb 7, 2023 | Exhibition, Handshake7, Kristin D'Agostino
DECISION TIME: At the end of the Estela Saez workshop I had two very strong desires: one was to continue to make a family of rings. The other idea was to revisit my plastic take-away brooches. Leftover, found and gifted metal, had been the material I landed on at the...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Feb 7, 2023 | Handshake7, Nina van Duijnhoven
Just like that, 2022 has been and gone, and we are already in the 2nd month of the new year. As Dubowski puts it: “We are paper thin. We exist on luck amid the percentages, temporarily. And that’s the best part and the worst part, the temporal factor.” As the years...
