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 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 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 admin | Dec 10, 2022 | News
deadline 17 January 2023, 5pm Application is now open for HANDSHAKE 8 (2023-2024). The HANDSHAKE mentor and exhibition programme continues with a new cumulative two-year project. This call is open for NZ artists who can commit and want to refresh and/or accelerate...
by admin | Nov 26, 2022 | Handshake7, News
HandShake 7 12 NZ jewellery artists 04-Dec-2022 till 11-02-2023 HS7 final exhibition is at galerie Marzee (curator Marie-José van Hout), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, opening ceremony Su 4 December 2022. HS7 artist, Mia Straka, represents the HS7 artists and HS...
by admin | Oct 22, 2022 | Curation, Exhibition, HS alumnus, News
‘Whānui’ is an exhibition by ten innovative Aotearoa artists that have participated in former HANDSHAKE projects. The HANDSHAKE project has been for the last 10 years instrumental in supporting early career and emerging jewellery artists, allowing them in...
by admin | Sep 15, 2022 | Handshake6, News
MORPH HS6 exhibition, NORTHART, Northcote, Auckland, 30th August – 8th October 2022 ‘MORPH’ represents the final body of work created by the twelve artists of Handshake 6. MORE Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial The first Jewellery Triennial is at Objectspace, Auckland, 10...
by admin | Sep 3, 2022 | News
A Stone, an Echo, a Sign: Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial 10 Sep–20 Nov 2022 Curated by Emma Ng Featuring new work by Becky Bliss, Neke Moa, Shelley Norton, Rowan Panther, Moniek Schrijer and Raewyn Walsh Whether it’s a bangle of Chinese jade, a carefully lashed toki...
by admin | Sep 3, 2022 | Handshake6, News
MORPH HS6 exhibition, NORTHART, Northcote, Auckland, 30th August – 8th October 2022 ‘MORPH’ represents the final body of work created by the twelve artists of Handshake 6. MORPH refers to transformation, this exhibition seeks to demonstrate that quality through the...
by admin | Jul 29, 2022 | Handshake6, Peter Deckers
MORPHING thoughts in ART variables DESIGN is the form. FORM is the purpose + medium. The CRAFT is the making, including techniques. The MATERIAL is the character. VISUAL ART is the content. The CONTENT connects the imagination. IMAGINATION forms the value. The...
by admin | Jul 11, 2022 | Amelia Rothwell, Antonia Boyle, Aphra Cheesman, Fran Leitch, Handshake6, Jack Hadley, Macarena Bernal, Mia Straka, Michelle Wilkinson, News, Nikki Perry, Nina van Duijnhoven, Simon Swale, Susan Videler
The HANDSHAKE6 group has been collaborating on a fundraising necklace project for a while, and they are excited to share the results! These necklaces are a collaboration between the group with each participant designing one of the 12 shapes. There are 4 different...
by admin | Jul 11, 2022 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6, News
HANDSHAKE 6 artist Aphra Cheesman won the TALENTE PRIZE – Prize for Design 2022 at TALENTE (‘Preiss für Gestaltung’), Munich MORE
