Japanese design and architecture This has been a source I continually draw on as inspiration since I began my contemporary jewellery journey almost 9 years ago. It probably also stems back even further with a few trips to Japan in my formative years, studying the language as a high school student and spending a year… Continue reading Atmosphere
Category: Kylie Sinkovich
O p e n S p a c e s
‘Holding space’ An act that is at once present and totally invisible. – Harrison Owen The trust of self organisation, the force that created the universe and brought us to this point, will continue to work its magic. A principle in submitting yourself to self-organisation is that you must let go of outcomes, that whatever… Continue reading O p e n S p a c e s
Early thoughts…
The container or holder of special jewels and treasured items has always held a sense of intrigue, secrecy, the sacred and a dose of nostalgia for me. It’s like a tiny doorway into another time that I briefly crack open with the creak of a hinge as the velvet (or whatever it is made of)… Continue reading Early thoughts…
Mentee and mentor reflections – a final signing off
In conversation with my mentor Benjamin Lignel on our personal Handshake 4 experiences. My personal Handshake journey started in a haze of self-doubt due to a period of instability in my life. The place I called home changed several times, there was a death in my family which rocked, tested and even broke some family connections,… Continue reading Mentee and mentor reflections – a final signing off
Corban Estate – Polarity
Twelve artist’s, eleven mentors, two rooms, one dark, one light, the one and only Peter and Hilda, and three exhibitions including this final show after almost two years of exhibition collaboration together. The ending is sort of bittersweet, as after all the hard work and throwing around hundred’s of ideas between us, and countless time… Continue reading Corban Estate – Polarity
Polarity thoughts and talks
Peter requested that I make my small intro talk for our opening into a blog so here it is 🙂 I will be sharing a few ideas with you on Polarity: the meeting of opposites; two forces, opposing yet mutually interdependent. It’s all real, and it’s all a dream. All natural forces flow between two… Continue reading Polarity thoughts and talks
Polarity – Our existence would not be possible without it
From the macro viewpoint, Earth’s magnetism is an act of repelling and attracting the positive and negative north and south poles, creating a magnetic field which protects us from most solar radiation. And to the microscale, the dance of polarity is the basis for cell division in the development of a foetus. In everything we… Continue reading Polarity – Our existence would not be possible without it
Inner Worlds and Outer Worlds
It appears that our mentorship programme is two thirds of the way done and dusted. I’ve been reflecting on where I’ve come from to where I am now during bouts of insomnia/extreme bursts of mental and physical energy. Everyone has their own private battles and mine is no different. In the last two years, I’ve… Continue reading Inner Worlds and Outer Worlds
Process – Toi Poneke
Participants had between 2 and 4 days (depending on where in the country they were travelling from) to respond to installation artist Gabby O’Conner’s exhibition design/challenge. Drop sheets with grids drawn on them (symbolising the canvas of our workbooks/visual diary’s) were strung over wire around the perimeter around the gallery. It was our choice on… Continue reading Process – Toi Poneke
Transitory matter
A duality that in reality is affinity Something so fragile we hold afar but is inordinately near Our co-dependency is echoed in shapes as substances dialogue with each other concerning permeation of deleterious waste We are all transitory matter It is only a matter of time and space