Participants (see their progress)
- Becky Bliss
- Nadene Carr
- Kirstin D’Agostino
- Lisa Higgins
- Nik Hanton
- Mandy Flood
- Caroline Thomas
- Aphra Cheesman
- Nina van Duijnhoven
- Mia Straka
- Raewyn Walsh
- Simon Swale
HandShake 7, 2022
Marie-José van den Hout, the visionary owner, coordinator, and curator of Galerie MARZEE, Nijmegen, NL selected 12 artists from former HANDSHAKE projects for the HANDSHAKE 7 one-year programme (see who they are).
HS7 programme was designed to provide an inspirational exploration into the processes of art-making, leading to the development of a body of work for a professional exhibition at Marzee that opened on December 4, 2022.
Throughout 2022, the participants had various art development opportunities, including in the first quarter masterclasses online with Estella Saez Vilanova and feedback sessions from established artists Katharina Dettar, Annelies Planteijdt, and Iris Bodemer. At the end of 2022, coach Sarah McClintock guided the participants in how their artworks were stacked up from the audience’s perspective.
The HS7 package aimed to foster creative development and excitement with professional support and feedback, resulting in a high-profile exhibition at Marzee.
Thinking and making and thinking
The workshop with Estela Saez was a frustrating, humbling, infuriating and ultimately rewarding experience. Estela is an expert at shining a light on flabby thinking and boy, did I have to shape up and work hard to get my works ready for Galerie Marzee as a result!...
A Journey
After many false starts, explorations. experimentations and near breakdowns… we got there. It was another wild ride on the runaway bus that is the Handshake Project, and this one- Handshake7, was almost the one that broke the camels back. Overlapping with the tail end...
Decisions, one liners, and haphazard joy
DECISION TIME: At the end of the Estela Saez workshop I had two very strong desires: one was to continue to make a family of rings. The other idea was to revisit my plastic take-away brooches. Leftover, found and gifted metal, had been the material I landed on at the...
The end is only the beginning..
Just like that, 2022 has been and gone, and we are already in the 2nd month of the new year. As Dubowski puts it: “We are paper thin. We exist on luck amid the percentages, temporarily. And that’s the best part and the worst part, the temporal factor.” As the years...
Welcome to HandShake 7 (HS7), 2022
HS7 is a selection of artists from former HANDSHAKE projects. The HS7 programme aims to provoke creative development and endeavour.
The group started with a masterclass series with Estela Saez Vilanova from Barcelona. Her workshop assignment sessions stretched till mid June.
The motivation of her masterclass is to search for inspiration, understand it, and when needed, is applied as a gathered experience to the working process of the artist. The HS7 artists revisited their usual making processes through a well-balanced comprehension of the conscious & unconscious phenomena, in an attempt to somehow merge the two.
Next to the artistic development a series of feedback coach sessions covered professional responses from a selection of international expert artists. The overall overseer is curator and writer Sarah McClintock. Sarah coached the HS7 group in the process of developing an exhibition ready body of work for the exhibition at Gallery Marzee in the Netherlands, curated and coordinated by owner Marie-José van Hout.
Thinking and making and thinking
The workshop with Estela Saez was a frustrating, humbling, infuriating and ultimately rewarding experience. Estela is an expert at shining a light on flabby thinking and boy, did I have to shape up and work hard to get my works ready for Galerie Marzee as a result!...
A Journey
After many false starts, explorations. experimentations and near breakdowns… we got there. It was another wild ride on the runaway bus that is the Handshake Project, and this one- Handshake7, was almost the one that broke the camels back. Overlapping with the tail end...
Decisions, one liners, and haphazard joy
DECISION TIME: At the end of the Estela Saez workshop I had two very strong desires: one was to continue to make a family of rings. The other idea was to revisit my plastic take-away brooches. Leftover, found and gifted metal, had been the material I landed on at the...
The end is only the beginning..
Just like that, 2022 has been and gone, and we are already in the 2nd month of the new year. As Dubowski puts it: “We are paper thin. We exist on luck amid the percentages, temporarily. And that’s the best part and the worst part, the temporal factor.” As the years...