Artist statement
I look to break down a complicated idea into a simple, poignant solution.
I do this by using shape and colour to create a sense of story, but always leaving room for the viewer’s own personal response and imagination.
Bio
Becky Bliss graduated from Whitireia New Zealand in 2010 and is also a graphic designer.
Her current works look at social issues such as global warming, fair pay and equal employment opportunities.
She was a participant in Handshake 1, 3, and 5 and the current HS7, as well as HandShake alumni exhibitions, and an exhibitor in Schmuck 2020 in Munich and Valencia, and Schmuck 2015 in Munich and Prague.
She is in several public and private collections.
A selective brief history of children’s toys #2
Pre-war. Toys were made of wood, fabric, die-cast metals. Toys generally reflected the perceptions of society. Most came with gender values, designed to socialise children to behave with the gender expectations of their society (childhood by design). Some of the most...
A selective brief history of children’s toys #1
Most anthropologists seem to agree that children’s toys have always had an educational element to them. The education is usually gender specific (no surprise here) – weapons and tools for the boys and dolls and cooking implements for the girls, whatever era we’re...
Much ADO about…
I am paired with the ADO collection and contemporary jeweller Lucy Sarneel. The ADO collection is an historical collection of wooden toys designed by Ko Verzuu from mid-1920 to early 1960s. The toys have clean lines and are brightly coloured, inspired by the De Stijl...
introducing handshake 5
The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the...
Becky Bliss‘ images
