Kelly McDonald

Images posted at #Whoiswearingwho by visitors to Te Uru      And my favourites - the brooch that has become a tiara!!

Image: Steel brooch, Lens Te Uru artist statement: Jewellery’s integral relationship to the body is usually well understood, most often from having worn jewellery ourselves. What we rarely consider is jewellery's relationship with the objects and spaces around us, and...

Exterior view of Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland  Image: Samuel Hartnett The pragmatics of New Zealand’s geographical isolation means that often the internet mediates the information you receive in ways other than algorithmically. As a maker, dealing...

DIY IUDs, installation made as part of my MFA study   As mentioned, HS5 is comprised of two exhibitions in 2019, the first at CODA (The Netherlands) and the final, at Te Uru (Auckland). As a maker you’re often asked to respond to external themes or ideas that can...

I had a slow start to this project and in wondering why it was so difficult to begin, I arrived at a combination of factors, the first being that Onno Boekhoudt (OB) is one of my heroes. My introduction to his work and more importantly to his making process, came...

As previously mentioned, CODA houses the full collection of Onno Boekhoudt's artistic legacy; his work, experiments and the many many objects he collected, including the bench pins/pegs pictured below. Onno's work and collections from the CODA archive, page.79 Onno...

Sketching with light. Materials; steel and solder. Dimensions of both bangles as installed above L 16cm X W 18cm X H 2cm.    

Henry Moore called 1932 ‘The Year of the Hole’. The fact is that Barbara Hepworth made her first pierced form in 1931, the year she gave birth to her first child. Perhaps Hepworth had a more complete sense of the hole than Moore. Perhaps that was because she was...

In a 1937 interview with Henry Moore, who famously made holes a feature of his sculpture, he said: The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass. Sculpture in air is...

In the context of jewellery, Onno believed the hole was the essence. "The hole is the inside of the piece, it touches the body, is intimate and personal - and that, according to Boekhoudt, was what it was all about, although with jewellery it is, in fact, always from...