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...
by Nellie Peoples | May 11, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Nelson Jewellery Week (NJW) was an incredible opportunity for the Aotearoa contemporary jewellery and small object making community to come together to connect, as well as share ideas and objects. There was a very full schedule over the time NJW was running (13-13...
by Nellie Peoples | Apr 26, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
After all our hard work experimenting with forms and surface textures it was time to bring these ideas together. Estela asked us to unpacked our cardboard models from a couple of months ago, and chose the one form that we were most drawn to. We did the same with our...
by Nellie Peoples | Apr 5, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In our recent class with Estela we were asked to bring along some material, and plenty of it. I chose a collection of old steel signs given to me by my grandparents. They used to fabricate, hand print and sell these signs in their hardware store, Peoples Hardware in...
by Nellie Peoples | Mar 16, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
The next homework that Estela set was to take the cardboard model and push the form further. Here, I explored different aspects of the model and explored ideas through the making process. This type of “thinking through making” took me back to when I was undertaking my...
by Nellie Peoples | Mar 2, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In our recent HANDSHAKE8 class we took the object we each constructed for homework and learnt how to propel the ideas in the piece forward. We drew our object several times each with a different brief in mind. There was one catch, our eyes had to be closed. This...
by Nellie Peoples | Mar 2, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In between classes Estela had set aside some tasks to prompt thinking and making. The aim was to take the skills we used in our first class and put them to work. We were to undertake a complete recreation of an old or incomplete object we had made and create something...
by Nellie Peoples | Feb 23, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
We recently undertook our first class with the incredible Estela Saez, who is guiding us in the development and honing of our design thinking and making processes. In this first virtual class Estela got us straight into action! We underwent some making exercises under...
by Nellie Peoples | Feb 23, 2023 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Through the HANDSHAKE program my intent is to propel my practice further forward, to continue to push technical and creative boundaries as well as further develop my skill set within professional practices. I see the HANDSHAKE program as an incredible invaluable...
