by Nellie Peoples | Nov 6, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
This my artwork created for the final Handshake 8 exhibition ‘Materlise’, present by the Handshake Project at the Artshouse Trust, Pah Homestead, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. The exhibition runs from 8 November 2024 – 16 February 2025. The piece is...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 12, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Each morning I am in the studio the morning often begins with a question, “to bead, or not to bead…?”. Whilst my making and form exploration has been happening on many projects this year, simultaneously, I have been working on an idea that has been...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 1, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Recently I had a solo exhibition Drift Lines at Masterworks, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. To see the full catalogue please click here. “The beach is made of drift lines, all on different time: the seashell rack lines that dance with the waves; the...
by Nellie Peoples | Aug 13, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In my previous post, ‘Pōhutukawa Play’, I was exploring surface treatments and finishes that I could achieve with the timber. The second part of the exercise given by my mentor, Neke Moa, was to go deeper into the material. Beyond the surface. It was time to explore...
by Nellie Peoples | Jun 14, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
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....
by Nellie Peoples | May 30, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Since the beginning of the year I have placed metal aside, for the moment, to explore other materials I have come across in my explorations. On my walks I have been collecting timber, driftwood, stones and shells. I began by focusing on timbers. I have worked with...
by Nellie Peoples | Apr 30, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Whoever wrote the proverb “never meet your [creative] heroes”, obviously had never met Neke Moa. She is my mentor this year for Handshake8. I will not recite the incredible things that Neke has created, exhibited and taught, but I would redirect, and recommend, you to...
by Nellie Peoples | Apr 10, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
I found myself amidst the rocks and seaweed and lapping waves of Karaka Bay following a prompt from Andrea Daly in our History and Theory classes for Handshake 8. We were asked to think about the rules that surround the field of Contemporary Jewellery and in so doing...
by Nellie Peoples | Mar 26, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
We have had yet another wonderfully thought provoking prompt from Andrea Daly’s Theory and History lecture. We were asked to observe something inanimate over a couple of weeks. We were to pay attention, to see how the inanimate thing changes and evolves, also how it...
by Nellie Peoples | Mar 13, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In the Handshake 8 journey we have recently begun our Contemporary Jewellery History and Theory classes with the incredible Andrea Daly. It has been wonderful to stretch my brain in the theory space in a much more focused way. One of our first projects for the class...
by Nellie Peoples | Feb 20, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
I have had such a spectacular beginning to the year. There have been adventuring through Northland over a 10 day period. It was a time full of exploring, hiking and, when I could, collecting. On the trip I took almost 2000 images of everything and anything that caught...
by Nellie Peoples | Dec 17, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
The Proof of Concept exhibition marks the halfway point of my 2 year Handshake 8 journey. It has been such an incredible, yet busy year. I have loved every moment of the last 12 months being a part of the program. Through the Handshake Project I have found an...
