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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...
Aotearoa Exchange
Aotearoa Exchange is a performative presentation that opens SCHMUCKmuenchen 2026 at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, on Friday 6 March. This project presents more than 40 wearable works by 20 Handshake Project alumni, animating the space with a dynamic...
Aotearoa Exchange
Aotearoa Exchange is presented and performed by Mia Straka, Jessica Winchcombe, Grace Yu Piper, Hilda Gascard, Lisa van Hulst, and Peter Deckers on Fr 06 March 2026, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. The project brings more than forty wearable works by HANDSHAKE...
Reflections on the Handshake Project:
A Journey of Innovation and Community (2011–April 2025) - By Peter Deckers Looking back on my time leading the Handshake Project (HS)—from its modest beginnings in 2010 to its conclusion in April 2025—I see a journey defined by transformation. What started as a...
Reflecting on 2 years of Handshake 8
It’s so nice to have this blog space to expand on the creative thoughts around this project. So often we are limited to a certain word-count for artist statements. For the record, that’s not a complaint - concise statements have their place, but I think 2 years of...