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 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 Louise Hill | Feb 24, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
I’ve read that as an artist, you should just never stop making. Then you don’t have to start again. An art practice needs to be practiced. …but I stopped for summer. Life happens, school holidays happen and here we are, end of February, getting started again. When I...
by Louise Hill | Dec 8, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
I often listen to audio books during the long days of making in my studio. I’ve also been working to lift my parenting game (which often looks like an attempt at creating the kiwi version of ‘Bad mom’s.’) It was in this vein that I listened to, ‘How to Raise Girls Who...
by Louise Hill | Sep 21, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Meeting with the wonderful Beppe Kessler has been a highlight of Handshake so far. Beppe is an incredibly accomplished contemporary jeweller and it is an honour to have her focus on my own work. She encouraged me to draw on my background (in Sociology and Politics...
by admin | Aug 27, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
As our online classes with Estela Saez have come to a close I took a moment to reflect. I hadn’t known what to expect from the masterclasses. The first class was also the first meeting as a handshake group and I was nervous/excited to meet my peers. Our...
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
It’s the word I have been given to guide me through my latest handshake tasks. Whilst I’d prefer a kinder word, something more inspiring, it’s been an accurate synopsis of my progress. The task is to take an alternative material, for me, tire inner tubes, and explore...
by admin | Feb 27, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Handshake offers a tried a true package of exploration, development, feedback and presentation. It’s an opportunity to get new perspectives and to improve, to make good work and to share that good work with others. ….And I really want to make good work. But what is...
