by Caroline Thomas | Feb 9, 2023 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake7
The workshop with Estela Saez was a frustrating, humbling, infuriating and ultimately rewarding experience. Estela is an expert at shining a light on flabby thinking and boy, did I have to shape up and work hard to get my works ready for Galerie Marzee as a result!...
by Simon Swale | Feb 8, 2023 | Handshake7, Simon Swale
After many false starts, explorations. experimentations and near breakdowns… we got there. It was another wild ride on the runaway bus that is the Handshake Project, and this one- Handshake7, was almost the one that broke the camels back. Overlapping with the tail end...
by Kristin D'Agostino | Feb 7, 2023 | Exhibition, Handshake7, Kristin D'Agostino
DECISION TIME: At the end of the Estela Saez workshop I had two very strong desires: one was to continue to make a family of rings. The other idea was to revisit my plastic take-away brooches. Leftover, found and gifted metal, had been the material I landed on at the...
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 Mia Straka | Jan 24, 2023 | Exhibition, Handshake7
The Exhibition Climbing up the industrial iron staircase to our final Handshake7 exhibition on the second floor of Gallery Marzee in the Netherlands, I am greeted by a narrow gallery with twelve rectangular tables. Standing to attention in a linear row, they are...
by Mia Straka | Dec 23, 2022 | Exhibition, Handshake7, Mia Straka
*Oliver Burkeman, Sam Harris podcast #289 Time management for mortals approx 22:29 minutes I’m interested in how we experience, value and record time. As a social medium adornment has the potential to act as catalyst, conduit and communicator in this realm. I invited...
by Mandy Flood | Dec 6, 2022 | Handshake7
Spending time with a material that is bound for landfill might seem futile, or the conscious act of repair. Producing something that sits lightly on the body but holds a silent heavy narrative. A small act of personal activism in uncertain times. This work developed...
by Kristin D'Agostino | Dec 2, 2022 | Handshake7, Kristin D'Agostino
I love loose organic forms. I like detailed moments. I like to cut and fold. Attending Estela’s workshop was such a gift and a wild journey. I with both feet did the assignments with full commitment and reckless abandon. The outcomes were not all good, but they were...
by Raewyn Walsh | Dec 2, 2022 | Handshake7, Raewyn Walsh
The final part of the Handshake 7 programme saw 3 artists from Galerie Marzee look over our work, over zoom, and offer a critical response. From the private spaces of our homes and studio spaces, we shared processes, concepts, and contexts and received generous, if...
by admin | Nov 26, 2022 | Handshake7, News
HandShake 7 12 NZ jewellery artists 04-Dec-2022 till 11-02-2023 HS7 final exhibition is at galerie Marzee (curator Marie-José van Hout), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, opening ceremony Su 4 December 2022. HS7 artist, Mia Straka, represents the HS7 artists and HS...
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 Raewyn Walsh | Aug 17, 2022 | Handshake7, Raewyn Walsh
I too, attended the masterclass led by Estela Saez. It got me thinking about the sun and the moon and led me here: The Powers of Ten ...
