H8 mentees & mentors:
The mentorship programme has been the flagship of the HANDSHAKE project. The HS mentorship system with top international mentor artists has supported many NZ emerging artists and provided professional ‘tools’ through their generous feedback support. This guidance is crucial for accelerated learning as it exposes mentees to years of experience, knowledge, and resolution processes that are not typically provided by the traditional art education system in New Zealand. Even ex-HS mentees are now being asked to become mentors for the new generation. Each HS8 artist has their selected mentor, and they start working with them in 2024.
The HS8 mentor programme aims to assist, encourage, challenge, and provide constructive criticism toward the mentee’s personal and artistic growth.
HS8 artists/mentees will create a body of work with their mentor that will be showcased at Pah Homestead, Auckland (end 2024). The mentor sessions are scheduled throughout 2024 to support the various stages of their development leading up to their final exhibition.
HS8 mentees & mentors:
Denise Callan Mah Rana
Fran Carter Renee Bevan
Rachel Chapman Katrin Spranger
Tui Diprose Estela Saez-
Fiona Frew Roseanne Bartley
Louise Hill Judith Darragh
Lisa Van Hulst Manon van Kouswijk
Genie Lee Renee Bevan
Nellie Peoples Neke Moa
Rose Pickernell Moniek Schrijer
Grace Yu Piper Karl Fritsch
Denise Callan Mah Rana
Fran Carter Renee Bevan
Rachel Chapman Katrin Spranger
Tui Diprose Estela Saez-Vilanova
Fiona Frew Roseanne Bartley
Louise Hill Judith Darragh
Lisa Van Hulst Manon van Kouswijk
Genie Lee Renee Bevan
Nellie Peoples Neke Moa
Rose Pickernell Moniek Schrijer
Grace Yu Piper Karl Fritsch
HS8 blog posts:
Any moment now…
For many of the previous classes with Estela we had been oscillating between creatively exploring within two and three dimensions. In this session we played somewhere in between. We had a creative brief that was inspired by our latest collection of rings. It was a...
doorways
Small moments. Fragments of my insides.Threads to pick up. Objects to place. Being with discomfort. Creating from that place. I see forests, oceans, rivers, land, weaving themselves through my mind, speaking their stories. pollution. deforestation. over harvesting....
Not Everything Goes to Plan
This Post is like that bloopers section you sometimes get at the end of comedy movies. There were a couple of pieces made during the Estella Workshop phase that kinda crashed and burned. I tell myself "this is a time to experiment. If I'm not hitting the occasional...
Rings From Other Things
I want to say "this was another fun week of play"....but maybe that diminishes the process. With hindsight it's true, but I am writing these posts several weeks after the online workshop and group crit. In the lead up, I'm always pushing to try 'one more idea' and I...