Jewellery artists
HS6 blog posts:
Shackle tackle
Catching up again. Now I’m in February. And preparing for CHAINreaction exhibition. The Handshakers had a casual get together over Zoom and shared what we were working on. I was stunned it was February already and was feeling the pressure building over the imminent...
Reflections on Signing In: 2020
Dear Blog, Firstly, apologies I have been slack on posting since our Handshake6 exhibition in October/November last year. My life has settled with a new home since then and this is my commitment that I will be better! Before moving forward I want to share my...
2020 Postmortem
Attai and I talked about the Te Auaha show. We talked about Covid. And family. And artists. We talked about holding on to work. Prioritising making money over work and finding a way to make it work. Oh the forever elusive balance. We talked about the upcoming chain....
Ode to Te Auaha
Looking back. Catching up. Just a few months behind. October 2020, my partner and I drove down to Wellington, with jewellery, rolls of paper and other paraphernalia for our Handshake 6 ‘process’ show. It was magic to be on the open road, going somewhere. We stopped...
How will an object sit on the body? How will a body sit on the object?
I’ve always loved chairs. Especially chairs like these... For a while now, I’ve been photographing chairs that I find on the street (if only I had the space to collect the objects themselves!). Used, worn and broken, these are objects that have lived their lives in...