by Genie Lee | Oct 23, 2024 | Genie Lee, Handshake8
I called Mum in Korea to tell her I’m in trouble with a lot of deadlines, as usual. I didn’t tell her I might be homeless soon, or that I’m too broke to send her next month’s allowance, or that I’m on trial as a victim of a crime in this foreign country after 15 years...
by Lisa van Hulst | Oct 10, 2024 | Handshake8, Lisa van Hulst
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result” Unknown I felt that perhaps I had gone insane as I looked back through the piles of almost identical cyanotype prints I made in creating the work inheritance. The process was the...
by Fran Carter | Oct 2, 2024 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
Lately, I’ve found myself resonating with a line from Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground days: “Well, I’m beginning to see the light.” Though Reed’s words may have come from a different place entirely, the sense of slow-building euphoria in those lyrics feels fitting...
by Louise Hill | Sep 16, 2024 | Louise Hill
Seiko Mikami (1961 – 2015) was a Japanese artist known for her large-scale installations. I had the opportunity to experience her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, when I visited Japan last year. Upon entry I encountered, Scale (1993), an installation...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 12, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Each morning I am in the studio the morning often begins with a question, “to bead, or not to bead…?”. Whilst my making and form exploration has been happening on many projects this year, simultaneously, I have been working on an idea that has been...
by Nellie Peoples | Sep 1, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
Recently I had a solo exhibition Drift Lines at Masterworks, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. To see the full catalogue please click here. “The beach is made of drift lines, all on different time: the seashell rack lines that dance with the waves; the...
by Louise Hill | Aug 29, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
“There’s a wonderful sign hanging on a Toronto junkyard which reads: “Help beautify junkyards—throw something lovely away today.” And this is a very effective way of getting people to notice a lot of things.” — Marshall McLuhan In his 1964 work, The Medium is the...
by Fran Carter | Aug 26, 2024 | Fran Carter, Handshake8
It’s a grey, mist-enshrouded Monday. ‘A weather event’ has ascended on the region overnight, heavy rainfall swelling rivers and causing havoc on the land and commuters. I’m tucked up in my nest among the hills, exorcising a chest infection,...
by Tui Diprose | Aug 14, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
This stone talisman was made in part of a deepening inquiry into matriarchal energy and matrilineal lines, embodiment and intuition. I explore this stone and others in varying ways, allowing instinct to guide me. I cleansed and blessed it in a stream on the land I...
by Nellie Peoples | Aug 13, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples
In my previous post, ‘Pōhutukawa Play’, I was exploring surface treatments and finishes that I could achieve with the timber. The second part of the exercise given by my mentor, Neke Moa, was to go deeper into the material. Beyond the surface. It was time to explore...
by Denise Callan | Aug 7, 2024 | Denise Callan, Handshake8, Sample
As I look back at my works from our Proof of Concept exhibition as a beginning point to move forward, the prospect of a new beginning feels quite daunting. Yet, the more rational parts of me know there is much to discover if I can take that first step. From this...
by Denise Callan | Aug 7, 2024 | Denise Callan, Handshake8
Our last workshop series with Estela has been spent learning to present our work electronically. We spent many weeks responding to her outrageously genius prompts. The results for me have been both painstaking, and pleasantly surprising at times. The prompt for this...
