HS6 MENTORS
Over the three years (including lockdown) each HANDSHAKE 6 artist developed work with research, experimentation, material and concept explorations, resulting in many ideas and models that need fine-tuning and testing.
This development is experimental and had the support of a personal mentor who at scheduled times was available for hard-needed dialogue, discussions, questions, and feedback:
Antonia Boyle with mentor Hanna Hedman
Aphra Cheesman with mentor Lisa Walker
Nina van Duijnhoven with mentor Manuel Vilhena
Jack Hadley with mentor Karl Fritsch
Fran Leitch with mentor Iris Eichenberg
Nikki Perry with mentor Attai Chen
Amelia Rothwell with mentor Mah Rana
Mia Straka with mentor Manon van Kouswijk
Simon Swale with mentor Gabi Schillig
Susan Videler with mentor Iris Eichenberg
Michelle Wilkinson with mentor Catherine Truman
Macarena Bernal with mentor Monika Brugger
HS6 MENTORS
Over the three years (including lockdown) each HANDSHAKE 6 artist developed work with research, experimentation, material and concept explorations, resulting in many ideas and models that need fine-tuning and testing.
This development is experimental and had the support of a personal mentor who at scheduled times was available for hard-needed dialogue, discussions, questions, and feedback:
Antonia Boyle with mentor Hanna Hedman
Aphra Cheesman with mentor Lisa Walker
Nina van Duijnhoven with mentor Manuel Vilhena
Jack Hadley with mentor Karl Fritsch
Fran Leitch with mentor Iris Eichenberg
Nikki Perry with mentor Attai Chen
Amelia Rothwell with mentor Mah Rana
Mia Straka with mentor Manon van Kouswijk
Simon Swale with mentor Gabi Schillig
Susan Videler with mentor Iris Eichenberg
Michelle Wilkinson with mentor Catherine Truman
Macarena Bernal with mentor Monika Brugger
BLOG posts:
No sense of order
The world is undergoing a rather large task. And failing miserably in so many places with Covid-19. What a mess! Here in New Zealand our government shut our borders quickly to give our health professionals time to prepare for the unknown and uncontrollable future. As...
Life in a bubble
This post was written 23 March 2020, due to technical issues (dead laptop charger) it could not be published earlier. Isolation day 32 (feels like 3000). March has been a month of chaos in many different ways. I worked, I taught, I suffered from illness and fear, and...
HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON
A CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY EXHIBITION WITH PORTRAITS BY HANNAH IRELAND 8 JUL – 1 AUG. 2020 OPENING NIGHT 10 JUL / 4–6PM 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 / New Zealand MORE image: Aphra Cheeseman
Change is the law of the universe.
Impermanence is a feature of everything that lives. All things, feelings and states pass away and are not permanent or graspable. Trying to hold onto material possessions, people, or experiences, knowing that life is moment to moment and constantly changing, can make...
Familiar Things
Through my practice, I try to cultivate an attentiveness to the world around me. I think of making as a way of connecting to the world of people and things. Recently, I came across an essay by documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, which discusses how ‘the...
Head, Hands and Heart : Part 1 – Head
Up until now my work has often been quite literal – forms are easily identified, stories are quickly understood. The experimental nature of Handshake has presented me with an opportunity to push myself into a different kind of outcome.
The contrast in time
The contrast in time Monika sips green tea, I sip wine. NZ is easy to contain, she says. She is speaking about bloody Covid. This strange continuity with online graduations is forcing creativity. I learn that working naked (meaning...
Makeshift Studio and Image Dump
During lockdown, I set up a a studio in the basement of my flat. It's messy and damp, but it has been a wonderful space to have. It is very makeshift. I use paint buckets as stools and often work on floor. There is a fire extinguisher prominently installed to ease my...
Bubble, Struggle, Breathe and Weave
This past month we have moved beyond full lockdown, after the dissolution of my bubble I shifted back to my flat and set up my home studio again. Now I am able to get back into my shared workshop. Manon and I had our first face to face meeting via Zoom two days ago, I...
Lockdown blockdown
I’ll have to call this my April blog, due to Covid 19 paralysis (my own). My small world initially appeared to be the same with Level 4 lockdown here in New Zealand. I felt like I had been practising for it all my life. Having worked from home for many years it was...