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 Fran Leitch | Jul 19, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6, Sample
July work! After my last session with Iris on Friday morning these are some of the question and avenues I find myself traversing at the moment after our discussion…she also asked where does your work sit; is it sentimental, Melancholy or Nostalgic? I find it at...
by Fran Leitch | Jul 19, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
June 2020 Hand, cotton and sunlight! June 2020 sleeves and buttons A play with pattern. I couldn’t find my hands to create things during lockdown, I could see them but couldn’t use them how I wanted! To get into this work physically I have to have someone to...
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 Michelle Wilkinson | Jul 13, 2020 | Handshake6, Michelle Wilkinson, Sample
To escape from my head, I began to engage my hands. I started using what was stashed in my workshop – wire, paper, thread. These didn’t give me what I wanted, they were too considered and not organic enough for me. I then discovered an unopened...
by Susan Videler | Jul 9, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I wish to show with the following photographs how salient colour is when making work. As I said in my previous blog, as a result of answers to questions about colour with regard to anxiety, I experimented with dyes, on bone, silks and wood. ...
by Jack Hadley | Jul 9, 2020 | Handshake6, Jack Hadley
My jewellery practice has typically incorporated traditional jewellery materials: silver, gold and cheap gemstones. Recently, this has started to feel expensive and a bit limiting. I have started playing around with some new materials like aluminium, lead and rubber....
by Antonia Boyle | Jul 5, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
All of these images were taken out and about in my neighbourhood.
by Susan Videler | Jul 3, 2020 | Handshake6, Sample, Susan Videler
At the conclusion of the second Zoom meeting when we were in lockdown level one, I asked folk to respond to questions about stress/anxiety. Overwhelmingly the colours associated were red and black, a rogue vomit brown, navy and mustard appeared also. Tentacles and...
by admin | Jul 2, 2020 | Exhibition, Handshake6
Handshake in Hamilton is a group exhibition co-curated by contemporary art collector, Garth O’Brien, and Weasel Gallery Director, Laree Payne. Handshake in Hamilton presents a diverse range of contemporary jewellery from the Handshake 6 cohort alongside paintings by...
by Nikki Perry | Jun 30, 2020 | Handshake6, Nikki Perry
The world is undergoing a rather large task. And failing miserably in so many places with Covid-19. What a mess! Here in New Zealand our government shut our borders quickly to give our health professionals time to prepare for the unknown and uncontrollable future. As...
by Antonia Boyle | Jun 23, 2020 | Antonia Boyle, Handshake6
This post was written 23 March 2020, due to technical issues (dead laptop charger) it could not be published earlier. Isolation day 32 (feels like 3000). March has been a month of chaos in many different ways. I worked, I taught, I suffered from illness and fear, and...
