by Becky Bliss | May 15, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
Pre-war. Toys were made of wood, fabric, die-cast metals. Toys generally reflected the perceptions of society. Most came with gender values, designed to socialise children to behave with the gender expectations of their society (childhood by design). Some of the most...
by Vivien Atkinson | May 12, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
One of the sessions during Roseanne Bartley’s workshop at the beginning of the year was based on the idea of using a list of verbs as the basis for working with one of the materials we had brought. Having a list of words (materials, colours, times, actions) as the...
by Sarah Read | May 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Read
I once read an interview with a (Scandinavian?) jeweller who said “a walk can be a necklace”. They referred to the boost of getting into nature for body, mind and spirit; like jewellery, but worn on the inside. Later, I drove myself crazy trying to trace...
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 Caroline Thomas | May 3, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
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...
by Sandra Schmid | May 3, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
While developing the work in response to the artist chosen by CODA Museum I got a little sidetracked… or not? The work will be around the contemporary interpretation/ response therefore current political and environmental issues made their way into the...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | May 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
“For no thought can be thought before it is thought, and thinking a thought has a certain element of materiality to it, found within speech and writing. Contrary to Aristotle’s Peri hermenaias, where speech is a sign of thought and writing is a sign of speech, such...
by Nik Hanton | Apr 29, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
Wherever I look things seem to appear in threes… even when I’m not aware of it… i am i . you are you . .
by Vivien Atkinson | Apr 18, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Susan Collis, When We Loved, 2017 Thinking about space as led me to look at some artists who make interesting use of space. Susan Collis’s exhibition When we loved you best of all, 2017 doesn’t look like an exhibition. The room appears vacant except for some odd...
by Sandra Schmid | Apr 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
Dorothea Prühl ‘Tiere’ 1999 What makes this work so appealing to me? Even looking at Dorothea’s work again and again it doesn’t lose its attractiveness. What causes the appeal and therefore the connection? Those were the questions that kept coming up...
by Nik Hanton | Apr 5, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
The works I’ve been given to respond to are made by a trinity of artists I’ve long admired. It’s a daunting prospect, but an invigorating one. It’d be daunting enough to respond to each artists’ work in isolation, but to respond to them...
