HANDSHAKE

Finding Fire As it goes sometimes, I’ve been finding it challenging to connect to my creative pathway this year. It has been like trying to find the signposts at the start of the walking track, only to realize there are none, and what awaits me is a sickle and the...

Justene Williams

by Louise Hill | June 17, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Justene Williams, is an contemporary Australian artist who makes her large-scale immersive works, using multi-channel video installations, photography and performance. Through challenging social norms, using of found objects and waste materials, collage and...

Ana Mendieta

by Louise Hill | June 16, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Ana Mendieta was born in Cuba in 1948. Her father, Ignacio Mendieta, was a lawyer who had worked with the FBI during World War II. In 1960 he became involved in an uprising against Fidel Castro and was concerned for the safety of his family. At 12, Ana Mendieta and...

Pōhutukawa play

by Nellie Peoples | June 14, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

At the last catch up that I had with my mentor, Neke Moa, she gave me an exercise to help expand my material knowledge. For this exercise I focused on pōhutukawa timber. I had briefly introduced myself to the material with my previous hand carved timber form studies....

Judy Chicago

by Louise Hill | June 12, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

When Judy Chicago was a student at UCLA in the late 1950s, she took a class called "Intellectual History or Europe," where her male professor declared that women had made zero contributions to European history. Aware of how little Chicago to start what would become a...

Hannah Wilke

by Louise Hill | June 9, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Hannah Wilke was among the first Artists to incorporate vaginal imagery into her work. During the 1970s, she used her own body to create "performalist self-portraits." Her work "S.O.S. – Starification Object Series" from 1974 to 1982, critiqued the commodification...

Carolee Schneemann

by Louise Hill | June 8, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Anthony McCall, thirteen photographs of Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975. Stockholm: Moderna Museet. © Carolee Schneemann. Photo: Estate of Carolee Schneemann/Galerie Lelong & Co./Hales Gallery/PPOW Gallery. Challenging the way that women's Art was...

Yoko Ono

by Louise Hill | June 6, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Judy (Judith Darragh, my handshake mentor), has suggested I take a look at a series of performance Artists who deal with the body and a piece that I find meaningful. I am starting with the incredible Yoko Ono. Ono's work often questioned the division...

large collection of rubbish collected from beaches

To wash or not to wash?

by Fiona Frew | June 5, 2024 | Fiona Few, Sample | 0 Comments

It might seem like a weird question to consider but something that I puzzle over is whether or not to clean the materials (at the moment found rubbish objects and things) that I am currently working with. For some people this is probably not a question that they...

Starting Again – Almost

by Lisa van Hulst | May 30, 2024 | Handshake8, Lisa van Hulst | 0 Comments

Suddenly it is almost June! I have had three sessions now with my mentor, Manon van Kouswijk. She has been insightful and generous. Suggesting exercises to help loosen up my practice and allow space for the unexpected. After our last meeting, she pointed out that my...

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Finding Fire

by Fran Carter | June 23, 2024 | Fran Carter, Handshake8 | 0 Comments

Finding Fire As it goes sometimes, I’ve been finding it challenging to connect to my creative pathway this year. It has been like trying to find the signposts at the start of the walking track, only to realize there are none, and what awaits me is a sickle and the...

Justene Williams

by Louise Hill | June 17, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Justene Williams, is an contemporary Australian artist who makes her large-scale immersive works, using multi-channel video installations, photography and performance. Through challenging social norms, using of found objects and waste materials, collage and...

Ana Mendieta

by Louise Hill | June 16, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Ana Mendieta was born in Cuba in 1948. Her father, Ignacio Mendieta, was a lawyer who had worked with the FBI during World War II. In 1960 he became involved in an uprising against Fidel Castro and was concerned for the safety of his family. At 12, Ana Mendieta and...

Pōhutukawa play

by Nellie Peoples | June 14, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

At the last catch up that I had with my mentor, Neke Moa, she gave me an exercise to help expand my material knowledge. For this exercise I focused on pōhutukawa timber. I had briefly introduced myself to the material with my previous hand carved timber form studies....

Judy Chicago

by Louise Hill | June 12, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

When Judy Chicago was a student at UCLA in the late 1950s, she took a class called "Intellectual History or Europe," where her male professor declared that women had made zero contributions to European history. Aware of how little Chicago to start what would become a...

Hannah Wilke

by Louise Hill | June 9, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Hannah Wilke was among the first Artists to incorporate vaginal imagery into her work. During the 1970s, she used her own body to create "performalist self-portraits." Her work "S.O.S. – Starification Object Series" from 1974 to 1982, critiqued the commodification...

Carolee Schneemann

by Louise Hill | June 8, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Anthony McCall, thirteen photographs of Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975. Stockholm: Moderna Museet. © Carolee Schneemann. Photo: Estate of Carolee Schneemann/Galerie Lelong & Co./Hales Gallery/PPOW Gallery. Challenging the way that women's Art was...

Yoko Ono

by Louise Hill | June 6, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill | 0 Comments

Judy (Judith Darragh, my handshake mentor), has suggested I take a look at a series of performance Artists who deal with the body and a piece that I find meaningful. I am starting with the incredible Yoko Ono. Ono's work often questioned the division...

To wash or not to wash?

by Fiona Frew | June 5, 2024 | Fiona Few, Sample | 0 Comments

It might seem like a weird question to consider but something that I puzzle over is whether or not to clean the materials (at the moment found rubbish objects and things) that I am currently working with. For some people this is probably not a question that they...

Starting Again – Almost

by Lisa van Hulst | May 30, 2024 | Handshake8, Lisa van Hulst | 0 Comments

Suddenly it is almost June! I have had three sessions now with my mentor, Manon van Kouswijk. She has been insightful and generous. Suggesting exercises to help loosen up my practice and allow space for the unexpected. After our last meeting, she pointed out that my...

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HANDSHAKE is a mentoring program in which established artists spread their knowledge to less experienced artists. The “knowledge” accumulated in exchange of the relationship based on feedback is implemented in exhibitions and joint projects.