by Brendon Monsoon | Jun 19, 2019 | Brendon Monson, Handshake5
All three of the pieces I am to respond to would have had to have been designed/modeled in CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. I have taught myself how to use a couple of pieces of software via online tutorials on youtube etc.. It can be a real challenge using the...
by Vivien Atkinson | Jun 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Artists using order and repetition often create works that result in large arrangements that can seem obsessive and even claustrophobic. Lam de Wolf use of splashes of paint and the fraying of torn fabric offer the opportunity for disorder to invade the rigidity of...
by Nadene Carr | Jun 6, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Image- car with stickers. someone who loves bling ’New ! Bigger and shinier than ever’ there’s so many teasers to entice the love of bling. Colour, shape, size, all require lots of play. Sound, hierarchy, size, consumerism, flashy, gaudy it just keeps on giving. I...
by Nadene Carr | Jun 6, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Marquette – brass, spray paint, hot glue This is me having an easy play for an outcome that I would like to do using mild steel and wire by wielding. I’ve got to say there’s something in using a hot glue gun!! Essence is something I have found in all three of my...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Jun 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
Feature Image: Memory – Family photo, Artist Unknown I am reminded of a family memory and photo of my family activating an installation that I think was on Te Papa’s Roof top in the mid-2000s. Te Uru Intent; Create an intimate and personal encounter with work that...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Jun 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
Chip off the ol’ Block Chippy Prone to error Fallible These are some of my most recent notes taken as I work, thoughts inspired by my making, a select few that resonate with me more than others. At the earlier stages of this investigation of process, Roseanne Bartley...
by Vanessa Arthur | May 30, 2019 | Handshake5, Vanessa Arthur
I mapped out a structured way to respond to this project and Onnos selected pieces, I planned to make a series of responses to each work – focusing on these in three parts….one piece at a time. So orderly! This format may have come from the added pressure...
by Sandra Schmid | May 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Sample, Sandra Schmid
Why did I investigate into plastic when the original work by Dorothea Prühl is made from wood and called ‘Tiere’ (animals). What seems to be contradictory is based on me growing up in the controversy time of abundance of plastic toys and my parents’ love and concern...
by Sandra Schmid | May 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
The ‘Poly’ Petting Zoo While developing work for the exhibitions at CODA, Appledorn and TeUru, Auckland I got drawn into the multitudinousness world of plastics. A topic as complex as the abundance of different plastics in our daily lives and also one of...
by Nik Hanton | May 20, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
The showing of Eva Rothschild’s, Kosmos, at the Wellington City Gallery couldn’t have happened at a better time for me. I’ve already been looking at her work intently over the last few months so the opportunity to see it in person is excellent. While...
by Becky Bliss | May 15, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
If you were in any doubt who specific toys were targeted to, take a look at the packaging. Let’s look at statistics of engineers relatively recently in the US (since there’s a few meccano boxes specifically for engineering). Women account for 47% of...
by Becky Bliss | May 15, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
The first plastic was developed in 1869. It was called celluloid and one of its first uses was to produce a white billiard ball (to replace ivory). Bakelite shortly followed. Oil was cheap, and the toy industry was gradually taken over. It was also very flammable. It...
