by Susan Videler | Oct 16, 2022 | Handshake6
‘Any group, society, institution, or organisation that encourages women to revile the eccentric, to be suspicious of the new and unusual; to avoid the fervent, the vital, the innovative; to impersonalise the personal, is asking for a culture of dead women.’ Clarissa...
by Susan Videler | Jun 20, 2022 | Handshake6
364 Days and a Glimmer of Hope Unwittingly I began my work for Glimmer in January 2021. After the psychological turbulence of 2020 I decided to create a simple repetitive task that could be completed regardless of what was to happen in 2021. So, the link a day...
by Susan Videler | Nov 11, 2021 | Handshake6
Words with Iris July 2021 (A belated Blog) It had been months since Iris and I connected, both of us have had a busy year. It is always so grounding to hear her voice carefully analyse the photos I have sent her. We stray into other topics then work our way back to my...
by Susan Videler | Aug 26, 2021 | Handshake6
Words with Iris July 2021 It had been months since Iris and I connected, both of us have had a busy year. It is always so grounding to hear her voice carefully analyse the photos I have sent her. We stray into other topics then work our way back to my work. She set me...
by Susan Videler | Jul 15, 2021 | Handshake6
I do not consider myself a video artist. Clips of a large ship cruising up the harbour, my adult kids clowning about, the cat monstering a small dog, or a snow day constitute my video ‘library’. It has therefore, been a revelation participating in Estela Saez’s video...
by Susan Videler | Jun 17, 2021 | Handshake6
Early last year I had determined that knots were my area of interest and prophetically it became a year of anxiety and knots of various kinds. My thinking moved on, partly I suspect because of the materials I was using and this year I have been exploring memory. My...
by Susan Videler | Jun 2, 2021 | Handshake6
by Susan Videler | Feb 28, 2021 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
The Preservation of Memory I have shifted my focus from knots to memory as this was an underlying theme of my work last year and has taken centre stage in 2021. In considering memory as a colour, I realised that for me it centred chiefly around cream; babies’ teeth,...
by Susan Videler | Feb 4, 2021 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I am at long last contemplating the Te Auaha exhibition held in Wellington last September. It was four months ago, the end of 2020 punctuated with Christmas and the luxury of travel and family available to us. We are truly blessed in this regard. This time last...
by Susan Videler | Sep 11, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I’ve had time to muse recently and realised how prevalent the knot is in our lives. Here follows a short chronology of their entwining in my life. One of our first moments as a human involves the severing of the life blood cord, that energy transfer complete and a...
by Susan Videler | Aug 7, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
Yesterday I had my Zoom meeting with Iris, I had been putting it off because the work was not flowing. As those of you who were at the masterclass this year will know, she sees into your very jewellery soul, which is at once disconcerting and a relief. These meetings...
by Susan Videler | Jul 9, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I wish to show with the following photographs how salient colour is when making work. As I said in my previous blog, as a result of answers to questions about colour with regard to anxiety, I experimented with dyes, on bone, silks and wood. ...
