by Neke Moa | Dec 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Title: Ukaipo – mother, source of sustenance, origin, real home Explored through beach finds shell and wood, my new home is explored and captured through pieces of daily activity and finding place. Tangaroa and Hinemoana echo and reassure providing...
by Neke Moa | Jul 21, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Turning an object into a pendant, into something wearable comes with ‘stringing up’ a bit of rope or string or something more interesting. Deciding on what I was going to use to turn these objects into pendants was my last part of the puzzle and...
by Neke Moa | Jun 23, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
The many decisions that go through the making…adding and subtracting…where to finish when to stop and will there be an ending, a completion. Titles and names have been given, they relate to the process through making and contemplation. This piece...
by Neke Moa | Jun 23, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Kainga -Home Home: tastes, smells, sounds and sensations, we carry these as we travel as we move from place to place. I have been looking at sound, soundscapes, mix tapes, layers of sound, beats, lyrics. Songs, waiata that transport us through time and space, that...
by Neke Moa | May 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
The processes of creating are different each time I tackle a project. They can often start the same..materials being often a starting point. With the Coda pieces, it makes life a bit easier? different at least to be able to have a conversation and dialogue with...
by Neke Moa | Apr 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Title: Diaspora I intend to make a series of work 3-5 pieces with a sound component. I will be researching the theme and concept of diaspora it is used in a contemporary context to describe indigenous/native people who live away from their homeland for one reason or...
by Neke Moa | Apr 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
When I choose the pieces from the coda collection the most prominent attraction for me was the shapes of the main pendants and then the materials they were made from. Therefore I began to explore the shapes the round convex matte object of Ruudt Peters, how would this...
by Neke Moa | Feb 26, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Timata..begin Ko te whiringa..the choosing Matte black circle curved bezeled convex symmetrical contrasting. Object. I never took notice of the artists but the appearance of the items i choose from Coda. The object pleases my order and i feel when i look at it a need...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Brendon Monson, Caroline Thomas, Handshake5, Kelly McDonald, Nadene Carr, Neke Moa, Nik Hanton, Sandra Schmid, Sarah Read, Sarah Walker-Holt, Vanessa Arthur, Vivien Atkinson
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...
