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Handshake7 at Gallery Marzee
The Exhibition Climbing up the industrial iron staircase to our final Handshake7 exhibition on the second floor of Gallery Marzee in the Netherlands, I am greeted by a narrow gallery with twelve rectangular tables. Standing to attention in a linear row, they are...
The pursuit of efficiency will drain your life of meaning* series 2022
*Oliver Burkeman, Sam Harris podcast #289 Time management for mortals approx 22:29 minutes I’m interested in how we experience, value and record time. As a social medium adornment has the potential to act as catalyst, conduit and communicator in this realm. I invited...
A Stitch in Time 2022
Spending time with a material that is bound for landfill might seem futile, or the conscious act of repair. Producing something that sits lightly on the body but holds a silent heavy narrative. A small act of personal activism in uncertain times. This work developed...
Reflecting on the Estela Saez workshop
I love loose organic forms. I like detailed moments. I like to cut and fold. Attending Estela’s workshop was such a gift and a wild journey. I with both feet did the assignments with full commitment and reckless abandon. The outcomes were not all good, but they were...
MINUMENTAL
ex HS6 artists presented their group exhibition MINUMENTAL at Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne as part of the Radiant Pavilion Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennale 2024. Following its debut at Nelson Jewellery Week (Aotearoa) in 2023, this second iteration...
Stitches and Stones
When I began my handshake journey I was a stone carver. I love the materiality of stone and its connection to the natural world. I gravitate towards reductive ways of working and enjoy the meditative process of carving. I’ve always been a forager and I love rock...
SINCERELY YOURS
Sincerely Yours is the last in a what has become a three part series. It began with an exploration of identity and our human need for belonging, through my initial work titled Dear Public. Last year, as my work developed for our first handshake show, I realised what I...
Bodies of Water
To heal; heal the waters. My work through HANDSHAKE8 explores themes of talisman, place, land, healing of matrilineal lines by...








