Exhibition news
What is coming up, what was ….
Exhibition news
What is coming up, what is, what was……
see below the exhibition’s programme
current & past exhibition blog posts:
current & past
- exhibition blog posts:
Morph report – here and now
We chose Morph as our collective title and theme for this culminating exhibition to embody the transitional and transformative epoch of both the pandemic and Handshake6 on our lives, work and group dynamic.
WHĀNUI at the National
'Whānui' is an exhibition by ten innovative Aotearoa artists that have participated in former HANDSHAKE projects. The HANDSHAKE project has been for the last 10 years instrumental in supporting early career and emerging jewellery artists, allowing them in developing...
Morph report part I – time based works
Information Age adornment projected through space and time
‘August 2020’- a Glimmer
at Whirinaki Whare Taonga, Upper Hutt 21 May – 27 June 2022 Our second exhibition of new work as members of Handshake_6, GLIMMER reveals a sample of our current work as we build towards our final exhibition at Northart in Auckland later in the year. For the year July...
JEWELLERY GLIMMER
HANDSHAKE 6 exhibition at WHIRINAKI WHARE TAONGA, Upper Hutt, Wellington, NZ Saturday 21 May - Sunday 24 July, 2022 'Jewellery Glimmer' is how jewellery is in conversation with many of their surroundings. The art works in this exhibition are made from...
SELECTED exhibition projects:
SELECTED exhibition projects:
Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 04-Dec-2022 till 12-02-2023, opening Sunday, 4 December 2022.
read artist statements coached by writing expert: Sarah McClintock
Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, 02 – 23 Oct , 2020
HANDSHAKE alumni
For Sydney Craft week, selected NZ jewellery artists from the HANDSHAKE project exhibits work that connects to the context of traditional jewellery.
The artists respond or reflect towards widely known jewellery traditions, e.g. why jewellery exists or is worn. This could be in a physical format (a solitaire ring, charm bracelet, etc), or an existing function (like jewellery clasps, stone settings and shapes, etc), or the purpose of jewellery, like how jewellery triggers the memory, how jewellery communicates class, wealth, power, and status.
The exhibits will be a deconstructed or an abstracted version of the traditional, rendering new opportunities for contemporary jewellery.
Each artist statement reveals the attention of their transformation.
The Handshake Project blog reveals some of these reflective processes at close, with regular updates.
SIGNING IN : HANDSHAKE 6 exhibition at TE AUAHA gallery, Wellington 30 Oct – 13 Nov 2020
SIGNING IN presents the twelve emerging NZ artists who have signed-up for a two-year commitment to HANDSHAKE 6. This group started in January 2020, initiating their creative processes with a masterclass from US based artist Iris Eichenberg. SIGNING IN reflects the participants’ work as a group since the start of their mentorship and marks the halfway point of their two-year journey. Here you will see an emphasis on process as much as ‘finished’ work, an opportunity to catch a glimpse of ideas in their nascent phase, with many options and opportunities yet to emerge.
The title SIGNING IN also gives a nod to this exceptional year of the coronavirus, and there is perhaps evidence of this in some of the work.
exhibition activities with selected/invited artists from current and/or former HS projects.
past shows:
WHĀNUI the National, Christchurch, 27 Oct – 9 Dec 2022
CHAINreaction, Refinery Artspace, Nelson, March-April during NJW 2021
MAKERS of Traditional CHANGE, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, 02 – 23 Oct 2020
TE AO HURIHURI – Ever Changing World, The Crypt Gallery, London, 23 – 27 Aug 2018
CHAINreaction, Atta Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 11 Jan–25 Feb 2018
IWA: New Zealand Makers, The Frame galleries, Munich, 7 – 13 March 2018
SUPER-POSITIONS, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, 4 – 21 April 2018
JEWELdisplayJEWEL, Pātaka Art + Museum, Toi Gallery, Porirua,14 September– 14 Oct 2018
HS4 EXHIBITION masterclass with Tanel Veenre (Est), February 2017
Tanel Veenre’s brief was to run a workshop about EXHIBITION development in its widest context. See below some samples:
Sandra Schmid, Kylie Sinkovich & Nadine Smith, “Recherćhe” show.
A performance-based jewellery installation in an elevator in one of Wellington’s historic buildings. The performance occurred with a Franz Liszt piano solo playing in the background and had a Stanley Kubrick feel with their roleplay and voyeuristic elements.
Katie Pascoe, Caroline Thomas, “Private Lives” – viewing is through a peep-hole in the wall
