by Mia Straka | Oct 5, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Since Wednesday 17 June I have been documenting my time with daily diagrams, so far I’ve drawn nearly 16 weeks: 110 days. Instigated in response to earlier conversations with Manon about weaving work that translates specific data, my pictographs include...
by Macarena Bernal | Aug 21, 2020 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal, Sample
Im studying skin colours, in the search for a colour system or Pantone. Drawn to the word degrade, its meanings, its connotations. Degraded, degrading, degradé. And what it could mean to wear it. I noticed that this set of sphere halves, resembled the colour pallet of...
by Simon Swale | Aug 20, 2020 | Handshake6, Sample, Simon Swale
Much of my MFA work focussed on considering and exploring notions of space and place. Of finding ways to articulate spaces of the everyday that operate as thresholds and/or places of transition; where land meets water, such as ports, as well as other points of...
by Vivien Atkinson | Aug 11, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Sample, Vivien Atkinson
So far I’ve been using a very basic darning stitch – I have the mantra ‘over under’ constantly running through my mind as I work. But thanks to reading Tom van Deijnen’s (tomofholland) blog I’ve become aware of other darning methods, Finnish, Scottish and Swiss – all...
by Mia Straka | Jul 29, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Practicing NOT making jewellery NOT using metal To move beyond where I’m at It’s a challenge Everything wants to be a necklace Collecting, Deconstructing, Reconstructing A double sided homemade cardboard loom with a built in hole Site for experimental...
by Fran Leitch | Jul 19, 2020 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6, Sample
July work! After my last session with Iris on Friday morning these are some of the question and avenues I find myself traversing at the moment after our discussion…she also asked where does your work sit; is it sentimental, Melancholy or Nostalgic? I find it at...
by Michelle Wilkinson | Jul 13, 2020 | Handshake6, Michelle Wilkinson, Sample
To escape from my head, I began to engage my hands. I started using what was stashed in my workshop – wire, paper, thread. These didn’t give me what I wanted, they were too considered and not organic enough for me. I then discovered an unopened...
by Susan Videler | Jul 3, 2020 | Handshake6, Sample, Susan Videler
At the conclusion of the second Zoom meeting when we were in lockdown level one, I asked folk to respond to questions about stress/anxiety. Overwhelmingly the colours associated were red and black, a rogue vomit brown, navy and mustard appeared also. Tentacles and...
by Mia Straka | Apr 23, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Jewellery for me is a medium to connect, it has brought Manon and I together via the internet, the tool which most of us are using to keep in touch with family and loved ones during coronavirus lockdown, plus to connect with the outside world. What role might...
by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald, Sample
Handshake5 at Te Uru. Image: Tatiana Harper I was really pleased with the circular aspect of my 2 sets of work. I spent months translating OB’s work from 2D to 3D and experienced such an immediate pleasure in making, yet I was producing work that would not be handled...
by Sandra Schmid | May 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Sample, Sandra Schmid
Why did I investigate into plastic when the original work by Dorothea Prühl is made from wood and called ‘Tiere’ (animals). What seems to be contradictory is based on me growing up in the controversy time of abundance of plastic toys and my parents’ love and concern...
by Vivien Atkinson | Apr 25, 2018 | Handshake4, Sample, Vivien Atkinson
Great to have Liesbeth den Besten in New Zealand again and to hear her talk about Artists as Collectors. I was especially interested in the work of one of the artists she spoke about – Hanne Darboven, a German conceptual artist who accumulated a vast collection of...
