Participants (see their HS progress)
- Antonia Boyle
- Aphra Cheesman
- Nina van Duijnhoven
- Jack Hadley
- Fran Leitch
- Nikki Perry
- Amelia Rothwell
- Mia Straka
- Simon Swale
- Susan Videler
- Michelle Wilkinson
- Macarena Bernal
exhibition programme 2020 – 2022
HS6 final exhibition NORTHART, Northcote, Auckland, (30th August – 8th October: opening Sat 27 Aug 2022)
image: Mia Straka
Saturday 21 May – Sunday 24 July 2022
WHIRINAKI WHARE TAONGA, 836 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt
‘Jewellery Glimmer’ is how jewellery can make conversations with their surroundings. This exhibition is the precursor for the final HS6 exhibition ‘MORPH’ at NorthArt, Auckland.
image by Aphra Cheesman
Saturday 21 May – Sunday 24 July 2022
WHIRINAKI WHARE TAONGA, 836 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt
‘Jewellery Glimmer’ is all about how jewellery can make conversations with their surroundings. The art works are made from transformed materials, not often seen in jewellery.
image by Aphra Cheesman
‘CHAINreaction: Handshakes at the Refinery’
& ‘HS Archival Moments’ exhibitions
27 Mar – 17 Apr 2021
The Refinery ArtSpace, 114 Hardy Street, Nelson
CHAINreaction celebrates 10 years of the HANDSHAKE project. HS6 artists were among the 49 artists who have been directly and indirectly associated with the project. They all have all made a HANDSHAKE by contributing to a continuous necklace.
31 October – 13 November 2020
TE AUAHA art gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
SIGNING IN exhibition reflected the HS6 participants’ work as a group since the start of their mentorship and marks the halfway point of their two-year journey. The emphasis in this exhibition was on process as much as ‘finished’ artworks, and saw glimpses of ideas in their nascent phase, with many options and opportunities yet to emerge.
The title SIGNING IN also gives a nod to the exceptional year of the coronavirus and the forced lockdown realities of some of the HS participants.
08 July – 01 August 2020
Weasel C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R T G A L L E R Y 260 Victoria St / Hamilton
Handshake in Hamilton
Co-curated by contemporary art collector, Garth O’Brien, and Weasel Gallery Director, Laree Payne. Handshake in Hamilton presents a diverse range of contemporary jewellery from the Handshake 6 cohort alongside paintings by Hannah Ireland.
The exhibition name, Handshake in Hamilton, is of course first and foremost an extension of the group’s name. Simultaneously however it has assumed further significance in the context of Covid-19 as the age-old germ-ridden handshake is traded for a less deadly elbow-bump.
Handshake in Hamilton lands at an interesting time when many are craving interaction and engagement following prolonged isolation. Most people enjoy communicating with others, and although language might be the first method to come to mind, visual communication preludes language in most instances. Contemporary jewellery is then of course the perfect extension and communicator of identity.
Jewellers participating in the exhibition are: Amelia Rothwell, Aphra Cheesman, Fran Leitch, Jack Hadley, Macarena Bernal, Mia Straka, Michelle Wilkinson, Nikki Perry, Nina van Duijnhoven, Simon Swale and Susan Videler.
Hannah Ireland’s portraits will occupy the walls during Handshake in Hamilton. Through her research and practice, Ireland examines the performative aspect of social interaction including the various versions of oneself we present in different circumstances. Ireland contributes seven sitters to Handshake in Hamilton, they pose behind glass, yet feel like mirrors, inviting adornment.
Handshake in Hamilton will take place at Weasel Gallery which is located in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) from the 8th of July through until the 1st of August. The opening will take place on the 10th of July from 4pm-6pm (all are welcome).
The exhibition will be viewable through Weasel Gallery’s website (www.weaselgallery.com), or to request a catalogue please email Laree at contact@weaselgallery.com. Weasel Gallery is open Wednesday – Friday, 11am – 4pm, and Saturday from 11am – 3pm.
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CHECK out HS6 ‘online exhibition’, which attempts to contextualise (jewellery) ideas and processes. HS6 did a series of Zoom workshops between April – October about ONLINE EXHIBITING called
ON-E by: Estela Saez Vilanova (CAT-ES)
This special masterclass with Estela Saez workshops how an online presence could break away from all known presentation methods (on the body or displayed). This digital gateway invited the HS6 artists to come up with innovative ideas and experiments.
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