by Tui Diprose | Apr 27, 2023 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
Creativity is a river. Creativity is a fire. https://handshakeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230417_160550.mp4 In the recent PUSH PULL workshop with Renee Bevan I found myself contemplating rivers as jewellery: I am imagining giant snake-like rivers...
by Nellie Peoples | Apr 26, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
After all our hard work experimenting with forms and surface textures it was time to bring these ideas together. Estela asked us to unpacked our cardboard models from a couple of months ago, and chose the one form that we were most drawn to. We did the same with our...
by admin | Apr 8, 2023 | Collaboration, Exhibition
In the HSDCTC co-lab collaboration three art jewellery groups from NZ, UK, and AU joined forces to collectively explore ‘Containment/Uncontained’, reflected by the relationships between jewellery objects and themes of freedoms and restrictions. This exhibition...
by Nellie Peoples | Apr 5, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In our recent class with Estela we were asked to bring along some material, and plenty of it. I chose a collection of old steel signs given to me by my grandparents. They used to fabricate, hand print and sell these signs in their hardware store, Peoples Hardware in...
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
It’s the word I have been given to guide me through my latest handshake tasks. Whilst I’d prefer a kinder word, something more inspiring, it’s been an accurate synopsis of my progress. The task is to take an alternative material, for me, tire inner tubes, and explore...
by Becky Bliss | Apr 4, 2023 | Becky Bliss
Estella challenged us through a series of fast exercises to look differently at common objects we had brought to the room. As we pushed through a range of materials, I realised that the choice of those materials had been quite important. Samples from exercises above I...
by Fran Carter | Apr 3, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
Kia ora! It seems March has vanished into thin air and we have landed into April with the start of daylight savings and Autumn settling in. With many commitments, I, unfortunately, have missed making a monthly post, so will endeavour to make up for it here!...
