by Nellie Peoples | Nov 9, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
When I first moved to Aotearoa New Zealand, I had a flurry of international visitors. There was a need for a non-digital or wifi dependent mud map of the area. I began to play with an idea of a map drawn onto an object from the area. Living on the bay, my first...
by Nellie Peoples | Oct 9, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
I have been in Aotearoa for over 12 months now. My main mode of getting to know this incredible place is by walking. Walking the streets, the beaches and the volcanic cores that sprinkle throughout the country. Walking helps me create a map of where I am. By exploring...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 26, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Not long ago I visited Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki to see the exhibition Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia. It was a wonderful reminder of home. The exhibition presented a cross section of the vibrant and diverse collection of artworks from indigenous...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 22, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Firstly a public service announcement, this is not a review. It is more akin to thinking aloud about what I got out of Wayfinding by Michael Bond. In the book Michael Bond explores how the act of wayfinding and spatial awareness helps to connect us to surroundings by...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 1, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Back in July I was lucky enough to have short trip to Japan. It was my first time visiting that part of the world, and it was incredible introduction to the place. I have been pondering how to write a blog post, to try and capture the wonder of the trip. I had such...
by Nellie Peoples | Jul 19, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Recently I went to the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki to see their exhibition ‘Light from Tate: 1700s to Now’. The exhibition artworks explored how light captivated artists, but also how it was used in their artwork. Both literally as well as...
by Nellie Peoples | Jul 11, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
The virtual classes with Estela Saez have now sadly come to an end. I learnt so much from Estela, as well as from the Handshake 8 cohort. It was a period of intensive development of my making processes, as well as expansion of my thinking and creative comfort zones....
by Nellie Peoples | Jul 11, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
For many of the previous classes with Estela we had been oscillating between creatively exploring within two and three dimensions. In this session we played somewhere in between. We had a creative brief that was inspired by our latest collection of rings. It was a...
by Nellie Peoples | Jun 22, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
After our usual feedback session about the previous week’s homework, the series of five rings, we were straight into inquiry through making. Estela had us return to the material that we conducted numerous experiments weeks earlier. I returned to steel signs my...
by Nellie Peoples | Jun 1, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In this class with Estela we were all excited to be moving into making something wearable, a ring. Although in our previous classes we were not directly making wearable objects, we each had times where the objects we created moved into that space. It seemed we could...
by Nellie Peoples | Jun 1, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In this class with Estela we moved back into two dimensions, after we had explored object making in the last few sessions. I thoroughly enjoyed the play between making objects, to then create drawings, and back again. The oscillation between drawing and objects was...
by Nellie Peoples | May 13, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
During Nelson Jewellery Week I took part in Renee Bevan’s three day Push/Pull workshop, as a part of HANDSHAKE8. This was the first time that the cohort was together in the same room since we began in February. It was a wonderful experience to meet the incredible...
