by Nellie Peoples | Jul 19, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Recently I went to the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki to see their exhibition ‘Light from Tate: 1700s to Now’. The exhibition artworks explored how light captivated artists, but also how it was used in their artwork. Both literally as well as...
by Fiona Frew | Jul 16, 2023 | Fiona Few, Handshake8
Life can seem like a juggling act and I often feel the same about creativity. Applying to be a part of Handshake 8 I needed to consider multiple factors which often felt contradictory. Apart from the concerns about having time and money to immerse myself in the...
by Nellie Peoples | Jul 11, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
The virtual classes with Estela Saez have now sadly come to an end. I learnt so much from Estela, as well as from the Handshake 8 cohort. It was a period of intensive development of my making processes, as well as expansion of my thinking and creative comfort zones....
by Nellie Peoples | Jul 11, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
For many of the previous classes with Estela we had been oscillating between creatively exploring within two and three dimensions. In this session we played somewhere in between. We had a creative brief that was inspired by our latest collection of rings. It was a...
by Tui Diprose | Jul 6, 2023 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
Small moments. Fragments of my insides.Threads to pick up. Objects to place. Being with discomfort. Creating from that place. I see forests, oceans, rivers, land, weaving themselves through my mind, speaking their stories. pollution. deforestation. over harvesting....
by Rachael Chapman | Jul 1, 2023 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman
This Post is like that bloopers section you sometimes get at the end of comedy movies. There were a couple of pieces made during the Estella Workshop phase that kinda crashed and burned. I tell myself “this is a time to experiment. If I’m not hitting the...
