The Convention Reformed Some time has passed since I became aware of the quiet movement to make the repair of garments a feature and also a contemporary art project. Liz Allen had the 2004 Summer Residency at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington. Called Mendt, http://enjoy.org.nz/mendt, Allen and a group of friends spent the time mending garments… Continue reading A Stitch in Time…..
Category: Vivien Atkinson
Standing Room Only, RNZ interview
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″] Lynn Freeman interviews Peter Deckers, Caroline Thomas, Vivien Atkinson and Becky Bliss. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_audio _builder_version=”3.19.7″ title=”Radio NZ interview about HS5 exhibitions and NZ art education” artist_name=”Peter Deckers, Caroline Thomas, Vivien Atkinson, Becky Bliss” audio=”https://www.handshakeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Radio-NZ-interview-about-HS5-exhibitions-and-NZ-art-education-Standing-Room-Only-with-Lynn-Freeman.ogg” background_color=”#111111″ max_width=”86%” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.7″] Radio New Zealand Standing Room Only, 1:46 pm on 8 December 2019 LISTEN: PLAY [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
Destined to Meet by Chance
The inspiration for my work in Melbourne for Radiant Pavilion came from a Chinese proverb: An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break. I was using the proverb to think about the people I connect with… Continue reading Destined to Meet by Chance
Backwards and forwards
With the CODA work packed up and now (I guess) on the way to Apeldoorn it seems like a good time to look back on this part of the HandShake project. All the ‘bracelets’ packed in their cotton bags I’ve had a lot of fun investigating ideas that came up in response to the stimulation… Continue reading Backwards and forwards
Code for CODA
Looking at the use of knitting in relation to war has revealed some other really interesting connections. I have to thank my son for the first discovery – he was listening to a history podcast in the background and caught the words knitting and espionage. Strange bedfellows indeed, but knitting offers a number of opportunities… Continue reading Code for CODA
Knitting
Social history has provided me with a rich source of ideas and material for making work. The rapid changes in the way we live our lives are a part of human progress, but the speed with which we embrace changing fashions and technologies sometimes comes at the cost of unexpected consequence. One reads about the… Continue reading Knitting
Painting
Artists using order and repetition often create works that result in large arrangements that can seem obsessive and even claustrophobic. Lam de Wolf use of splashes of paint and the fraying of torn fabric offer the opportunity for disorder to invade the rigidity of the grid and subvert the ascetic tendency often apparent in minimalist… Continue reading Painting
One more grid
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 stimulation for a way of working… Continue reading One more grid
I’ve been thinking….
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 bits left by a builder or gallery staff… Continue reading I’ve been thinking….
Another grid
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 trossen van gebruikts verfborstels. I’ve also been working on… Continue reading Another grid