by Sandra Schmid | Dec 7, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
On a visit to Auckland I was fortunate to explore the TeUru gallery space. What would the building tell me? Can I hear the voice or the essence? How does it sit in the environment as well as in the community? The very first impression was a tete a tete of old and...
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 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 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 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 admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Brendon Monson, Caroline Thomas, Handshake5, Kelly McDonald, Nadene Carr, Neke Moa, Nik Hanton, Sandra Schmid, Sarah Read, Sarah Walker-Holt, Vanessa Arthur, Vivien Atkinson
The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the making...
