by Sarah Read | Mar 25, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Read
For Te Uru Waitakere we’re each to make work that responds to the gallery itself. I visited the building to scope out the spaces where we might be showing. The gallery is emphatically NOT a white cube. Behind the copper frontage are mezzanines, voids and vistas...
by Sarah Read | Mar 24, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Read
For CODA we’re each to make a body of work that dialogues with three pieces in the museum collection. My conversation partners are two very different artists; Lam de Wolf (who creates process-based works, often interactive projects) and Reka Fekete (a maker of...
by Caroline Thomas | Mar 24, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
The starting point of the work I am going to make for Te Uru is Billy Apple’s The Cut Away. To quote from Te Uru’s website, ‘This is part of an ongoing series, started in the 1970s, in which Apple has critiqued the ways that exhibition spaces...
by Caroline Thomas | Mar 24, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
A month ago I started a new job. For four weeks I have been in full-time training which has meant that any progress on my Handshake work has been unwillingly short-changed. For four weeks I have been coming home during the week and slumping on the sofa. staring...
by Nik Hanton | Mar 12, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
When a collection of works is in response to a gallery space the volume and shape of the space can (potentially) over-ride/rule the works, if we let it. What if we “strangled the space” and bent it to our will rather than being beholden to it? The space...
by Nik Hanton | Mar 7, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
My personality is one that thrives on order. While not a precise person by nature I do like things to be “tidy”. There’s something about a zig-zag that fits perfectly with my desire for order and my inability to subscribe to strict precision. Terhi...
by Nik Hanton | Mar 6, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
I love words and I love discovering words that describe concepts concisely and precisely. When I saw the word “Unicum” on the sheet next to the Jantje Fleischhut work I’ll be responding to from the CODA Museum collection I was excited. UNICUM:...
by Brendon Monsoon | Mar 6, 2019 | Brendon Monson, Handshake5
A new year and a new handshake project to go with it 🙂 I really pleased to have been selected to participate in Handshake5. The project is only one year long this time but I’m sure that won’t make the experience any less intensive The works from the CODA...
by Sandra Schmid | Mar 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
When I was faced with the pleasure to choose 3 artists out of the amazing collection of the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn it brought up many questions? Why are those particular artists and their work bring something to life and inspire? What makes an artwork speak to you?...
by Nadene Carr | Feb 28, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Within my practice a particular word stands out for me at this moment. Bling referring to the sound effect of tinkling bells sound of light hitting something shiny especially valuables to sound like a diamond ring acknowledge its use for tv cartoon – to...
by Nadene Carr | Feb 28, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
My intent with these 3 artists is to question my own practice with a few of each artists highlights. Lucy – the ritual of her objects giving greater strength. Paul – his rugged strong and questioning approach to making. Ruddt – expressing his...
by Sarah Read | Feb 28, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Read
I’m feeling beyond lucky to be starting my third Handshake experience. HS1 (Prentice and Prodigy) emboldened me to develop work that honours my real-life preoccupations. HS3 (Concept and Conception) had me bouncing around the far fringes of expanded jewellery...
