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 Kelly McDonald | Jul 16, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
Henry Moore called 1932 ‘The Year of the Hole’. The fact is that Barbara Hepworth made her first pierced form in 1931, the year she gave birth to her first child. Perhaps Hepworth had a more complete sense of the hole than Moore. Perhaps that was because she was...
by Nik Hanton | Jul 15, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
There are so many times in making when talking through your work helps to clarify/solidify your thought processes- provided you’re talking with the right person. I had my kōrerorero with Sian van Dyke from the Dowse Art Museum and it offered just that. In...
by Vivien Atkinson | Jul 14, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Looking at the use of knitting in relation to war has revealed some other really interesting connections. I have to thank my son for the first discovery – he was listening to a history podcast in the background and caught the words knitting and espionage. Strange...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 11, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
In a 1937 interview with Henry Moore, who famously made holes a feature of his sculpture, he said: The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass. Sculpture in air is...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
In the context of jewellery, Onno believed the hole was the essence. “The hole is the inside of the piece, it touches the body, is intimate and personal – and that, according to Boekhoudt, was what it was all about, although with jewellery it is, in fact,...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
My initial plan for CODA was quite simple: 1. Play 2. Chinese Whispers 3. No Material Hierarchy. HS blogging requires a reveal of your initial plan in this public forum – useful in relation to deadlines and an audience being able to follow your progress, only...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Jul 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
My work does not leave me; it travels alongside me in whatever else I am doing in my life. Recently, while retreating on the Coromandal and working on a selection of ‘multiples’ for Coda, I was reminded of one of my notes, that my making process is not about...
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 Vivien Atkinson | Jun 20, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Social history has provided me with a rich source of ideas and material for making work. The rapid changes in the way we live our lives are a part of human progress, but the speed with which we embrace changing fashions and technologies sometimes comes at the cost of...
