The workshop with Estela Saez was a frustrating, humbling, infuriating and ultimately rewarding experience. Estela is an expert at shining a light on flabby thinking and boy, did I have to shape up and work hard to get my works ready for Galerie Marzee as a result! Estela helped me to really think about materials,… Continue reading Thinking and making and thinking
Category: Caroline Thomas
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Estela Saez is a force of nature. Despite the limitations of Zoom she managed to herd the cats of Handshake 7 and facilitate some really good making [plus a large dollop of indifferent making by me which Estela rightly identified!]. I hugely enjoyed the input of my fellow Handshakers who made many profound and insightful… Continue reading Currently…
Standing Room Only, RNZ interview
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″] Lynn Freeman interviews Peter Deckers, Caroline Thomas, Vivien Atkinson and Becky Bliss. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_audio _builder_version=”3.19.7″ title=”Radio NZ interview about HS5 exhibitions and NZ art education” artist_name=”Peter Deckers, Caroline Thomas, Vivien Atkinson, Becky Bliss” audio=”https://www.handshakeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Radio-NZ-interview-about-HS5-exhibitions-and-NZ-art-education-Standing-Room-Only-with-Lynn-Freeman.ogg” background_color=”#111111″ max_width=”86%” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″] Radio New Zealand Standing Room Only, 1:46 pm on 8 December 2019 LISTEN: PLAY [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
Because you’re worth it
Worth
Value, importance, worthiness, usefulness, meaningfulness, significance, stature, measurement, control. How you are perceived by others and how you perceive yourself. How an object is perceived by its maker, its seller, its buyer and its audience. Emperor’s New Clothes or an actual quantifiable measurement? Somewhere in between. And always indefinable. My work at Te Uru… Continue reading Worth
Beget
For CODA I’ve been exploring ideas around genealogy, genetics and family trees. What kinship do my pieces share with the three original works they are responding to? How many branches of the family tree separate them and what are the different lineages that connect them?
Mind the gap
The starting point of the work I am going to make for Te Uru is Billy Apple’s The Cut Away. To quote from Te Uru’s website, ‘This is part of an ongoing series, started in the 1970s, in which Apple has critiqued the ways that exhibition spaces function. In doing so, he makes the institutional… Continue reading Mind the gap
Pendent opera interrupta
A month ago I started a new job. For four weeks I have been in full-time training which has meant that any progress on my Handshake work has been unwillingly short-changed. For four weeks I have been coming home during the week and slumping on the sofa. staring dead-eyed at the TV, unable to put… Continue reading Pendent opera interrupta
introducing handshake 5
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″ background_color=”#f4f4f4″ link_option_url=”https://www.handshakeproject.com/handshake-5/”] The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the making practice. Her feedback continues within the first quarter of 2019. Different coaches… Continue reading introducing handshake 5