Category: Sarah Read

With such different CODA works to start from, I’m running three concurrent projects and am in danger of disappearing up my own bum. Mentor Roseanne Bartley urges me to pause and get my bearings. It’s time to reflect, to find the common thread.  Use the blog, she says… Failing as a digital nomad Late in… Continue reading Coda: Taking stock

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 the article, sadly to no avail; it would be… Continue reading A walk can be a necklace…

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 (both within the space and across the landscape). Natural daylight… Continue reading First Steps: Te Uru visit

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 jewellery, sometimes objects). Lam de Wolf Lam de Wolf is a Dutch visual… Continue reading First Steps: CODA pairings

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 practice. And now HS5. Dialogue and Response: right up my street! We’ve two choice shows lined up towards the end of… Continue reading So juicy!