by Simon Swale | Aug 20, 2020 | Handshake6, Sample, Simon Swale
Much of my MFA work focussed on considering and exploring notions of space and place. Of finding ways to articulate spaces of the everyday that operate as thresholds and/or places of transition; where land meets water, such as ports, as well as other points of...
by Jack Hadley | Aug 14, 2020 | Handshake6, Jack Hadley
by Susan Videler | Aug 7, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
Yesterday I had my Zoom meeting with Iris, I had been putting it off because the work was not flowing. As those of you who were at the masterclass this year will know, she sees into your very jewellery soul, which is at once disconcerting and a relief. These meetings...
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...
by Antonia Boyle | Aug 1, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
I initially started this handshake project looking at patterns of growth. Initial experiments were made out of metal using the pattern of skin cells to create a magnified version. If we think about cells and their patterns we suddenly realise we are surrounded by...
by Mia Straka | Jul 29, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Practicing NOT making jewellery NOT using metal To move beyond where I’m at It’s a challenge Everything wants to be a necklace Collecting, Deconstructing, Reconstructing A double sided homemade cardboard loom with a built in hole Site for experimental...
by Nikki Perry | Jul 29, 2020 | Handshake6, Nikki Perry
I truly have no idea what I have done since I wrote my last blog. I’ve been looking back at Meret Oppenheim’s compositions, marvelling at Keith Sonnier’s colours and neons, trawling through Hilary Mantel’s latest novel The Mirror and the Light. The daily explorations...
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 Simon Swale | Jul 24, 2020 | Handshake6, Simon Swale
It seems to be the nature of contemporary life that history erupts upon the surface of our lives in ever more frequent waves. There seems a volatility in the fabric of society that has created tension and unease. The papered over cracks of history are being torn apart...
by Antonia Boyle | Jul 23, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
I’ve been exploring holes a lot in my work lately so I thought I would write a list of all the different words for holes that I can think of. Holes continue to be a running theme throughout my current works and I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of...
by Jack Hadley | Jul 22, 2020 | Handshake6, Jack Hadley
Left: Hannah Ireland, Closed Curtains, 2020 Right: Jack Hadley, Baroque Flower Indigo Storm Blue, 2020 Image: Weasel gallery Two weeks ago, I exhibited my jewellery for the first time. This was part of the exhibition HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON at Weasel Gallery. 11 of the...
by Aphra Cheesman | Jul 21, 2020 | Aphra Cheesman, Handshake6
I’ve been lucky to have had plenty of time at the workshop this year. Investigating everyday objects and materials, I have kept the parameters in which I am working broad, allowing my environment and the things within it to direct me. Walking, noticing, collecting…...
