by Fran Carter | Jun 23, 2024 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
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...
by Fran Carter | Nov 27, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
Kia ora, It has been a few weeks now since we Handshakers opened our debut show Proof of Concept at Depot Artspace in Devonport, Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland. It feels something of a feat in a way to be able to reflect on it in this early stage and feel at peace with the...
by Fran Carter | Oct 8, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
The following is an unpublished journal excerpt from 2015 when I was studying for my Graduate Diploma through Whitireia NZ Reflecting on a walk-about It’s mid-summer, and I’m walking through the Mt. Vic greenbelt as the sun is going down and the moon...
by Fran Carter | Sep 21, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
The following is an unpublished journal excerpt from 2015 when I was studying for my Graduate Diploma through Whitireia NZ Object & Ego I find it an ill fit when telling someone my occupation my response “I’m studying contemporary jewellery” Then asked “Oh, what...
by Fran Carter | Aug 31, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
We have now come out the other side of our Masterclass experience with Estela Saez. It was a fast-paced time of invigorated energy put into quick-fire unfolding exercises and sessions of feedback and discussion. It was a lively time and I did enjoy the respite from...
by Fran Carter | Jun 29, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
We are now marching down the path into winter here in Aotearoa, New Zealand and we have now come to the end of our online Masterclass Zoom sessions with Estela Saez-Vilanova. As new handshake mentees, we began our time with Estela in late Summer in February. It was...
by Fran Carter | Jun 3, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
Suddenly we are at that point in the year where we wonder how we are now halfway through it! Feeling the centrifugal force of time consolidating at speed and everything happening all at once. Well, that has been my feeling anyway as I have been thrust from bouts of...
by Fran Carter | May 6, 2023 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
Reflecting on the month that was April, what an exceedingly full-to-the-brim kind of time. I don’t think I’ve quite processed or recovered from it yet! With Nelson Jewellery Week scheduled in the second week of April, there was a lot to get done in the...
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!...
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...
