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 Vanessa Arthur | Apr 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Vanessa Arthur
making actions (in three parts)…… which will overlap I’m sure. part one – currently thinking of Onno’s joined works; repair, adjust, improve, reconstruct, replace, mend, reform, substitute. I often start in object samples that work their...
by Brendon Monsoon | Apr 1, 2019 | Brendon Monson, Handshake5
One thing that all three pieces selected by coda have in common is that they are 3d printed or contain a printed element so 3d printing and the digital path is also the way I will go.The Dunedin School of Art where I work has recently purchased a massive ceramic 3d...
by Nik Hanton | Apr 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
I’ve been working on the idea of creating a series of modern “totems”. This raises the question of cultural appropriation for me. While I won’t be using motifs from any culture apart from my own, even the term “totem” sits...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Apr 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
I am searching for a truth to my materials. How do the materials make me do what I do to them; how does process dictate form? Currently, I have been making notes as I work with the intention of understanding what makes me do to a material, what I do. Dissection is an...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Apr 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
My understanding of the term ‘Actants’ comes mostly from Bruno Latour’s, Technology is Society Made Durable, where his initial engagement with the reader describes a scenario of European hotels displaying notices to remind patrons to return their room keys on...
by Nadene Carr | Mar 29, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Balance , colour and particularly the joins have interested me in each of the three artist selected from Coda. I mentioned I wanted to find out what that extra something each artist adds to there work. Paul Adie inspired me to look closely at joins. I have become very...
by Nadene Carr | Mar 29, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Further research into bling bling- turning it on its head. reflect, detracts, mirror where do I identify -more or less . With low brow bling or high brow. Or can you have both? im also interested in using bling as a onomatopoeia . How can I make a piece for the body...
by Vivien Atkinson | Mar 28, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
In my spare time (lunch is over-rated) I made a necklace that responds to the Google translation of the Dutch that described one of Lam de Wolf’s necklaces. I put the description of my necklace through the translator: Ketting gemaakt van stof bedekt trouw met...
by Becky Bliss | Mar 26, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Handshake5
Most anthropologists seem to agree that children’s toys have always had an educational element to them. The education is usually gender specific (no surprise here) – weapons and tools for the boys and dolls and cooking implements for the girls, whatever era we’re...
by Kelly McDonald | Mar 25, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
THE YEAR THAT IS HS5: Handshake5 comprises a masterclass with Roseanne Bartley and a series of coaching sessions with Roseanne, Vernon Bowden, James Anderson and Sian van Dyk, all to support the making of work for two exhibitions occurring later this year. The first,...
