by Fran Carter | Jun 23, 2024 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
Finding Fire As it goes sometimes, I’ve been finding it challenging to connect to my creative pathway this year. It has been like trying to find the signposts at the start of the walking track, only to realize there are none, and what awaits me is a sickle and the...
by Louise Hill | Jun 17, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Justene Williams, is an contemporary Australian artist who makes her large-scale immersive works, using multi-channel video installations, photography and performance. Through challenging social norms, using of found objects and waste materials, collage and...
by Louise Hill | Jun 16, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Ana Mendieta was born in Cuba in 1948. Her father, Ignacio Mendieta, was a lawyer who had worked with the FBI during World War II. In 1960 he became involved in an uprising against Fidel Castro and was concerned for the safety of his family. At 12, Ana Mendieta and...
by Nellie Peoples | Jun 14, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
At the last catch up that I had with my mentor, Neke Moa, she gave me an exercise to help expand my material knowledge. For this exercise I focused on pōhutukawa timber. I had briefly introduced myself to the material with my previous hand carved timber form studies....
by Louise Hill | Jun 12, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
When Judy Chicago was a student at UCLA in the late 1950s, she took a class called “Intellectual History or Europe,” where her male professor declared that women had made zero contributions to European history. Aware of how little Chicago to start what...
by Louise Hill | Jun 9, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Hannah Wilke was among the first Artists to incorporate vaginal imagery into her work. During the 1970s, she used her own body to create “performalist self-portraits.” Her work “S.O.S. – Starification Object Series” from 1974 to 1982,...
by Louise Hill | Jun 8, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Anthony McCall, thirteen photographs of Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975. Stockholm: Moderna Museet. © Carolee Schneemann. Photo: Estate of Carolee Schneemann/Galerie Lelong & Co./Hales Gallery/PPOW Gallery. Challenging the way that women’s Art was...
by Louise Hill | Jun 6, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Judy (Judith Darragh, my handshake mentor), has suggested I take a look at a series of performance Artists who deal with the body and a piece that I find meaningful. I am starting with the incredible Yoko Ono. Ono’s work often questioned the...
by Fiona Frew | Jun 5, 2024 | Fiona Few, Sample
It might seem like a weird question to consider but something that I puzzle over is whether or not to clean the materials (at the moment found rubbish objects and things) that I am currently working with. For some people this is probably not a question that they...
by Lisa van Hulst | May 30, 2024 | Handshake8, Lisa van Hulst
Suddenly it is almost June! I have had three sessions now with my mentor, Manon van Kouswijk. She has been insightful and generous. Suggesting exercises to help loosen up my practice and allow space for the unexpected. After our last meeting, she pointed out that my...
by Nellie Peoples | May 30, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Since the beginning of the year I have placed metal aside, for the moment, to explore other materials I have come across in my explorations. On my walks I have been collecting timber, driftwood, stones and shells. I began by focusing on timbers. I have worked with...
by Rachael Chapman | May 28, 2024 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman
Our current group of online workshops with Estela Saez, are geared towards figuring out new ways to show our work via film. As someone who grew up pre-internet and mobile phone, I’m still wowed by how much our phones and laptops can achieve. Recording audio on...
