by admin | Jul 11, 2022 | Amelia Rothwell, Antonia Boyle, Aphra Cheesman, Fran Leitch, Handshake6, Jack Hadley, Macarena Bernal, Mia Straka, Michelle Wilkinson, News, Nikki Perry, Nina van Duijnhoven, Simon Swale, Susan Videler
The HANDSHAKE6 group has been collaborating on a fundraising necklace project for a while, and they are excited to share the results! These necklaces are a collaboration between the group with each participant designing one of the 12 shapes. There are 4 different...
by Amelia Rothwell | Sep 15, 2021 | Amelia Rothwell
An intention A bond A community An anchor A hook A story An experiment A seat A look ...
by Amelia Rothwell | Sep 15, 2021 | Amelia Rothwell
‘All I feel like making are tears’ A mother (1942-2020) A friend (1972-2020) For ‘CHAINreaction: Handshakes at the Refinery’, Nelson Jewellery Week, March 2021
by Amelia Rothwell | Mar 2, 2021 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
My first year of HANDSHAKE 6… How to: Get from my head to my hands; from thinking to object Bring awareness to my process Evoke not describe Pare back Say more with less Writing has become a valuable tool in my making process. Stream of...
by Amelia Rothwell | Mar 2, 2021 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
a pocket a stone presence absence remains ‘Stones. On the ground and of the ground. Grounded; grounding. Hand objects.’ Materials: Stone, EPNS, soap, wood,...
by Amelia Rothwell | Sep 3, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
Stones. You lie on the ground, minding your own business when I go for a walk in the countryside. On the shore, you watch the waves come tumbling towards you, sometimes catching you and drawing you back to tumble gently backwards and forwards for another...
by Amelia Rothwell | Aug 24, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
‘The poet… is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs… the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.’ Derrida, 1982* ‘The poet’s job...
by Amelia Rothwell | Jul 29, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
“Read things in the style that you would like your voice to sound like – so that it can be your inspiration and you can study it – absorb it through osmosis.” “Read what you love, not what you think you ‘should’ read.” “Find a way to write about your work...
by Amelia Rothwell | Jul 20, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
I want to make work that is intimate; that makes people want to touch it, to hold it; that touches people.
by Amelia Rothwell | Jul 15, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
We Are Not the Poem. ‘The problem is we think we exist. We think our words are permanent and solid and stamp us forever. That’s not true. We write in the moment. Sometimes when I read poems at a reading to strangers, I realize they think those poems are me....
by Amelia Rothwell | May 12, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
Words can be used to create all sorts of pictures, yet the image I see most vividly, in this moment, when I think of words, is a net. I see the cord or thread and the knotting, simple or intricate patterns, holding ideas loosely in their arms. More than...
by Amelia Rothwell | Mar 2, 2020 | Amelia Rothwell, Handshake6
Iris Eichenberg masterclass – Jan 2020 “It’s about the final outcome being not just jewellery.” The thing that struck me most about Iris, aside from her warmth and generosity, was her use of language. The way she uses words is poetic and insightful. She has the...
