by Macarena Bernal | Aug 25, 2021 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal, Sample
Coloured skin, What does it go through, what does it endure? How does it feel? It’s the end of August. Im in level 4 lockdown being diligent. MB
by Mia Straka | Aug 10, 2021 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Empty promises will now be fulfilled in a gush of blog posts to catch up on past busy months! We have been a collective hive of activity, exhibition planning, fundraising doings, online exhibition masterclasses plus personal research, playing, exploring and making....
by Macarena Bernal | Jun 15, 2021 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal, Sample
Notes from Estela Saez’s Online Exhibition masterclass. 27 may 2021 Experiment, try different things, sound , image. Their combination, the outcome is unknown. She loves her practice because contemporary jewellery is quite new, and if we will be judged, we will...
by Fran Leitch | Mar 22, 2021 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6, Sample
I started writing this blog on the flight back to Auckland from Wellington last year after the Te Auaha show…the blog was full of could have, should have, would have’s bla bla! The show was about process and our HS6 journey’s, much like stopping off...
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...
