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HS7 blog posts:
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...
Finding Fire
Finding Fire As it goes sometimes, I’ve been finding it challenging to connect to my creative pathway this year. It has been like trying to find the signposts at the start of the walking track, only to realize there are none, and what awaits me is a sickle and the...
Justene Williams
Justene Williams, is an contemporary Australian artist who makes her large-scale immersive works, using multi-channel video installations, photography and performance. Through challenging social norms, using of found objects and waste materials, collage and...
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta was born in Cuba in 1948. Her father, Ignacio Mendieta, was a lawyer who had worked with the FBI during World War II. In 1960 he became involved in an uprising against Fidel Castro and was concerned for the safety of his family. At 12, Ana Mendieta and...
Pōhutukawa play
At the last catch up that I had with my mentor, Neke Moa, she gave me an exercise to help expand my material knowledge. For this exercise I focused on pōhutukawa timber. I had briefly introduced myself to the material with my previous hand carved timber form studies....