by Nina van Duijnhoven | Feb 7, 2023 | Handshake7, Nina van Duijnhoven
Just like that, 2022 has been and gone, and we are already in the 2nd month of the new year. As Dubowski puts it: “We are paper thin. We exist on luck amid the percentages, temporarily. And that’s the best part and the worst part, the temporal factor.” As the years...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Sep 11, 2022 | Handshake7, Nina van Duijnhoven
Being able to relax and enjoy workshops has become a lot easier since I have been in the Handshake programs. Before my very first masterclasses with Iris Eichenberg in February 2020, I hardly slept and was very stressed. Not knowing what to expect, and not...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Sep 8, 2022 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
Finito.. the end, done. “Morph”…. the culmination of two and a half years of developing our arts practice, the finale, our last exhibition together. I can’t believe it has been two and a half years. Time has flown by! What an amazing journey it...
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 Nina van Duijnhoven | Oct 26, 2021 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
A brooch made for the show at Galerie Marzee, due to open 7 November. Brooch (2021) Untitled III Materials: Acid free 250gsm paper, pastel, silk cord Measurements: H220mm x W160mm x D60mm Weight: 29 grams Another lockdown for New Zealand started on the 17th of August....
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Sep 22, 2021 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne 4-12 September 2021 For many months Handshake (NZ), Dialogue Collective (UK) and TempContemp (AU) have collaborated on the show “Containment/Uncontained” for Radiant Pavilion 2021. There were many zoom meetings connecting the 2 sides...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Jul 24, 2021 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
A while back I posted a blog about a conversation I had with one of my pieces which was the result of a performative exercise that Peter Deckers asked us to do. (The conversation, Aug 4, 2020) Here is a conversation I had with another piece, picking up from where we...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Jul 23, 2021 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
In parts of the world, elephants are exploited for transportation, construction, logging, ceremonial use and as a tourist attraction. The elephant must obey his owner and cannot run rampant. Elephants are large animals, built to uproot trees using only their trunk, so...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Apr 27, 2021 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
For the Nelson CHAINReaction show I played around with several ideas but I wasn’t happy … they were just not right, they were lacking…. Lacking what I didn’t know, I couldn’t put my finger on it… they were just a bit meh… a bit average, contrived… I didn’t feel...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Dec 16, 2020 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
Our first exhibition at Te Auaha was about showing our process. My process is doing, making, and generally quite a lot of it. I don’t draw, I don’t spend a lot time thinking prior to making. I sit down and just start… doing something…and from that something little...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Sep 16, 2020 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
In 2001, British artist Michael Landy addressed excess consumerism and waste, by destroying all his possessions in an art project called “Break Down”. In the 3 years leading up to this event, every single one of his 7227 possessions was carefully classified and...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Aug 4, 2020 | Handshake6, Nina van Duijnhoven
Peter Deckers has given us a range of performative exercises to help us get out of our habitual working patterns. One of these exercises is to talk, shout, whisper or make sounds to your object, and see what response this creates in you or your object. What is your...
