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 Susan Videler | Feb 28, 2021 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
The Preservation of Memory I have shifted my focus from knots to memory as this was an underlying theme of my work last year and has taken centre stage in 2021. In considering memory as a colour, I realised that for me it centred chiefly around cream; babies’ teeth,...
by Susan Videler | Feb 4, 2021 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I am at long last contemplating the Te Auaha exhibition held in Wellington last September. It was four months ago, the end of 2020 punctuated with Christmas and the luxury of travel and family available to us. We are truly blessed in this regard. This time last...
by Susan Videler | Sep 11, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
I’ve had time to muse recently and realised how prevalent the knot is in our lives. Here follows a short chronology of their entwining in my life. One of our first moments as a human involves the severing of the life blood cord, that energy transfer complete and a...
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 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 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 Susan Videler | May 11, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
Limbo land. For the first two weeks of lockdown I was in an odd state of mental paralysis. Partly as a result of an anxiety attack about the looming effects of Covid-19 a week before lockdown, and coming to terms with not travelling to Melbourne for my daughters 30th...
by Susan Videler | Mar 11, 2020 | Handshake6, Susan Videler
It was a little daunting presenting to a largely unknown group in Auckland that first day, however the benefits far outweighed any initial concerns. Renee Bevan grounded us all with a quick introduction to the Push /Pull theory. I feel fortunate to be with a group of...
