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✨ AOTEAROA EXCHANGE — Handshake Project at SCHMUCK 2026 ✨
We are excited to announce that Handshake Project alumni and organisation will present a special collaborative performance at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, during SCHMUCK 2026.
📅 Friday 6 March 2026, 19:00 – 24:00
📍 Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Aotearoa Exchange is a live, performative presentation featuring more than 40 wearable works by 20 Handshake alumni. Sculptural headpieces by @miastraka and garments by @jessica.winchcombe.jewellery form the core of the performance, activating alumni works through choreographed movement by six performers.
This dynamic, artist‑led intervention offers an alternative to static display and highlights the vitality of contemporary practice from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lead artists:
@miastraka @jessica.winchcombe.jewellery @graceyupiper @hildagascard @vanhulstlisa @peter_deckers
Participating alumni:
@a.drifting.trove @becky_bliss_jewellery @denise_callan Nadine Carr @aphra.cheesman @ninavanduijnhoven @vanhulstlisa @sam_kelly_sculpture @nekemoa @brendonmonsonjewellery @nellie_peoples @graceyupiper @quietgatherings @carolinethomasjewellery @raewynwalsh @sarahwalkerholt @jessica.winchcombe.jewellery @keri_mei_z
Aotearoa Exchange celebrates Handshake’s peer‑driven model—supporting alumni visibility, fostering international dialogue, and contributing to a living archive of contemporary jewellery practice.
Supported by Creative New Zealand, Makers 101, and the artists.
@creativenz
review
review
Artq.Collection interview
Interview: Antonia Boyle on Her Creative Pursuits and Ambitions in the Art Industry
You have been creating jewellery for the Company of Strangers, how has this
shaped your career as an artist? What have you learned from the experience?
I have been working with Company of Strangers for a few years now. Manufacturing their jewellery has taught me the value of my eye for detail. When producing jewellery for stores consistency is key and so the details really make a difference in the end product and the overall cohesive look of the collection that ends up in the stores. It has also taught me about communication, when working with a business producing work that has their name on it it’s important to me that they feel the work I produce accurately portrays their brand.
Review by Rosanne Bartley for ‘Contemporary Hum’
Handshake 5: In Dialogue; Emerging Contemporary New Zealand Jewellery at Coda Museum, Holland
Review of the Handshake 5 exhibition at CODA Museum
2019
essay by Lieta Marziali published at Klimt02
HALL OF MIRRORS: ON JOURNEYING, VIEWING, AND THE CRITICAL LEGACY OF ENCOUNTERS
A Reflective Essay by Lieta Marziali about the exhibition Te Ao Hurihuri / Ever Changing World, a collaboration between Dialogue Collective and Handshake Project, The Crypt Gallery, London, 23-27 October 2018.
Essay by Kim Paton for ‘Contemporary HUM’
Valuing the Handmade: New Zealand Jewellers in Munich
Video
LEANINGS at Pah Homestead (HS4)
Gallery conversation:
Carolin Denton interview for ‘KLIMT02’
Isolation and Global Sameness. About Critique. Interview with Peter Deckers
Klimt02 has started a discussion about critique and shows various perceptions. We have been choosing different interview partners from the field of art and design. Working in art and design might seem like a wonderfully idyllic and relaxed career choice, where you have the pure freedom to let your creative juices flow. Each of them represents a unique view and gives us an overview of their own experiences. This is the third interview of seven.
The story behind Wellington’s Handshake, by Helen Wyatt
vivien Atkinson, performing at the Stanley Street gallery
NZ jewellery artists remind us to play with complexity while pushing the boundaries of the worn object every which way.
New Zealand jewellery artists continue to produce work that is intellectually strong, materially curious and playful. In April, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, once again facilitated a significant number of these artists in the 2018 Australian show of the HANDSHAKE Project – SUPER POSITIONS.
Artists’ statements and exhibition photos
Handshake Project
Super Positions
Super positions in NZ contemporary jewellery; a handshake to the 21st Sydney Biennale.
“The ability to put objects on our body makes us different to the next person. It is the thing that makes us human, it is the thing that has connected all civilisations since Superposition waves began when one cave woman found a thing with a hole in it, stuck her finger in it and called it a ring”. (Sharon Fitness).
Brooches by Shelley Norton. Plastic shopping bags reconstructed to create a desirable object. Photo: Caryline Boreham.
New Zealand contemporary jewellery to shine in Munich
REVIEW
review of all the stands of the ‘Frame galleries’, HWM, Munich
IWA team
IWA: New Zealand makers at Frame 2018
READ
HANDSHAKE 4 – POLARITY exhibition overview video
Handshake 4 – Polarity from The Wallace Arts Channel on Vimeo.
Polarity is the last exhibition of the Handshake project’s 4th iteration.
The twelve Handshake 4 artists explore the opposing and complementary powers of light and dark by employing considered lighting and display techniques.
These jewellers exhibit work that questions the essential dualities within all of us. They do that in two polarised rooms at the Corban Arts Estate.
MORE
Mark Amery interview
PODCAST
In this pod discussion at a monthly gathering for artists across all disciplines interested in working outside conventional venues we hear from producer Herbee Bartley (Massey College of Creative Arts Pasifika Advisor and co-founder Kava Club) and ‘jewellery activist’ Peter Deckers (Handshake) talk on creating artist support networks beyond institutions, mentoring, current arts sector fatigue around PR and fundraising and seeding artist-run collectives rather than becoming big bodies.
The next Urban Dreams Monthly in Wellington is Tuesday 19 September 12.30pm at meanwhile gallery Level 2, 99 Willis Street. In conversation Jordana Bragg and Jo Randerson. on “owning It: creating enduring artist-run spaces”.
LISTEN
BOOK in pdf
Handshake 3 exhibition at the Frame
HANDSHAKE 3 at Munich Jewellery Week at the FRAME galleries (Handwerks Messe)
Handshake exhibition: Concept & Conception, the FRAME galleries, Internationale Handwerksmesse 2017, Munich
Essay by Peter Deckers for ‘Klimt02’
Kelly McDonald, Manifesto, 2014. Rubber, leather, aluminium, paper, copper, silver, brass, steel, gold, wood, stone, plastic (photo by the artist)Show it ALL by Peter Deckers
“An interesting and critical article about the meaning, the history, the development, the use, the connection and the presentation of an exhibition”.
Article published in the book Contemporary Jewellery in Context by Peter Deckers.
March 2017
Collaboration process and exhibition, Munich
It Will All Come Out In The Wash
collaboration project with Dialogue Collective
Review of the HS3 exhibition ‘REFLECT’ at the Dowse
Handshaking with Emotion: A Review of Handshake 3: Reflect
By Lucy Jackson
Opening speech notes:
HANDSHAKE second book publication
A series of essays that is written through the lens of the HANDSHAKE project model
Writers include: Kim Paton (NZ) who writes about Teaching, Liesbeth den Besten (NL) writes about
Making, Sian van Dyk (NZ) about Curating, Peter Deckers (NZ) about Exhibiting and
Benjamin Lignel (FR) writes about Collaborating.
MORE
BOOK preview in pdf
catalogue
The HS3 catalogue with writings from Hilde de Decker, Kim Paton, Tanel Veenre, Peter Deckers, Sofia Björkman, a gazette from Dialogue Collective and introductions to the 12 HS3 artists: see CATALOGUE in pdf
HS3 exhibition catalogue at Objectspace
2016
Review of Munich Jewellery week by Philip Clarke
Philip Clarke
Our contemporary jewellery
artists shine at Schmuck
What has New Zealand jewellery got going for it? Pretty much
everything, Philip Clarke explains in this survey of some of
our jewellery Olympians and their exploits overseas.
ARTICLE by Philip Clark (ArtNews)
SPECIALS : a photo essay of the HandShake Alumni Munich exhibition at the Einsäulensaal in the Munich Residenz Palace.
Click here for more details about this show
DOWNLOAD Munich Specials catalogue LR PDF
Benjamin Lignel (AJF editor) interview with Peter Deckers
Interview
Benjamin Lignel AJF interview with Peter Deckers about the Handshake project.
October 2016
Interview
New eductaional trends and shifts are discussed in this article with Karen Pontoppian: https://artjewelryforum.org/in-conversation-with-karen-pontoppidan
5 April 2016
Overview #26
In Overview #26 you can find an article about how the HandShake project has progressed.
exhibition announcement
Sofia Bjorgman & Hilde de Decker at AVID, Wellington, NZ
Essay by Peter Deckers
Jewellery frontiers’ virtual and analogue HANDSHAKE
by
Jewellery across the miles (interview)
Jeweller Amelia Pascoe with works made out of old shoes.
Liesbeth den Besten article for AJF
THE GOLDEN STANDARD OF SCHMUCKASHAU
snip….As a matter of fact, the Handshake project—a mentoring project with young mentees from New Zealand and tutors from all over the world and the brainchild of Peter Deckers—was one of the very few innovative projects that participated in Munich. It was innovative because of the collaboration between mentees and mentors via Internet, Skype, and blogs, and also because the final show involved some work that was made on the spot or was open ended…..end snip
Standing Room Only: Radio NZ
The Handshake Project
Everyone needs a helping hand from time to time. And the Handshake Project, a three-year scheme matching-up emerging jewellers with the superstar mentor of their choice, does just that.
Curator Jo Mears, exhibition at the Dowse (travelled from the Wallace Art Centre and Wallace Gallery)
Retrospect pays respect to New Zealand contemporary jeweller, Peter Deckers
“The works in Retrospect present a magnificent survey of current contemporary jewellery practice,” says curator Jo Mears, “The exhibition pays homage to and ‘gives back’ to Peter Deckers, a mentor who has created many opportunities for new and established artists to exhibit in major public shows.”
Peter Deckers keynote speaker at the JMGA, Brisbane
Participation and Exchange: interactive PARTNERS
READ/see
International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium, Feb 2012
JEMposium ‘Jewellery or What’
JEMposium brings together contemporary jewellers, collectors, curators, critics, and jewellery enthusiasts from New Zealand and abroad to discuss and celebrate the art of jewellery. The symposium will be held in Wellington from 10th-13th of February 2012.
JEMposium : the art of jewellery by Jenah Shaw
JEMposium EXHIBITIONS review by Mark Amery
HANDSHAKE PledgeMe campaign
HANDSHAKE 1 final exhibition of the 3-year project is a collaboration between the Handshake mentee and their mentor exhibited at Objectspace 15 June 2013 – 20 July 2013. Each artist pair made-up their own rules and many did not play it safe.
see exhibition CATALOGUE with artist statements
selected NEWS snips
Observations on the contemporary object
30 November 2017 posted on The Big Idea - Mark Amery writes about current issues and exhibitions around New Zealand. The following text explores 'craft' as a verb: Welcome to the fine contemporary object. It’s a little bit punk - revelling in making unexpected...
review
review
Artq.Collection interview
Interview: Antonia Boyle on Her Creative Pursuits and Ambitions in the Art Industry
You have been creating jewellery for the Company of Strangers, how has this
shaped your career as an artist? What have you learned from the experience?
I have been working with Company of Strangers for a few years now. Manufacturing their jewellery has taught me the value of my eye for detail. When producing jewellery for stores consistency is key and so the details really make a difference in the end product and the overall cohesive look of the collection that ends up in the stores. It has also taught me about communication, when working with a business producing work that has their name on it it’s important to me that they feel the work I produce accurately portrays their brand.
Review by Rosanne Bartley for ‘Contemporary Hum’
Handshake 5: In Dialogue; Emerging Contemporary New Zealand Jewellery at Coda Museum, Holland
2019
essay by Lieta Marziali published at Klimt02
HALL OF MIRRORS: ON JOURNEYING, VIEWING, AND THE CRITICAL LEGACY OF ENCOUNTERS
A Reflective Essay by Lieta Marziali about the exhibition Te Ao Hurihuri / Ever Changing World, a collaboration between Dialogue Collective and Handshake Project, The Crypt Gallery, London, 23-27 October 2018.
Essay by Kim Paton for ‘Contemporary HUM’
Valuing the Handmade: New Zealand Jewellers in Munich
Video
LEANINGS at Pah Homestead (HS4)
Gallery conversation:
Carolin Denton interview for ‘KLIMT02’
Isolation and Global Sameness. About Critique. Interview with Peter Deckers
Klimt02 has started a discussion about critique and shows various perceptions. We have been choosing different interview partners from the field of art and design. Working in art and design might seem like a wonderfully idyllic and relaxed career choice, where you have the pure freedom to let your creative juices flow. Each of them represents a unique view and gives us an overview of their own experiences. This is the third interview of seven.
The story behind Wellington’s Handshake, by Helen Wyatt
vivien Atkinson, performing at the Stanley Street gallery
NZ jewellery artists remind us to play with complexity while pushing the boundaries of the worn object every which way.
New Zealand jewellery artists continue to produce work that is intellectually strong, materially curious and playful. In April, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, once again facilitated a significant number of these artists in the 2018 Australian show of the HANDSHAKE Project – SUPER POSITIONS.
Artists’ statements and exhibition photos
Handshake Project
Super Positions
Super positions in NZ contemporary jewellery; a handshake to the 21st Sydney Biennale.
“The ability to put objects on our body makes us different to the next person. It is the thing that makes us human, it is the thing that has connected all civilisations since Superposition waves began when one cave woman found a thing with a hole in it, stuck her finger in it and called it a ring”. (Sharon Fitness).
New Zealand contemporary jewellery to shine in Munich
REVIEW
review of all the stands of the ‘Frame galleries’, HWM, Munich
IWA: New Zealand makers at Frame 2018
READ
HANDSHAKE 4 – POLARITY exhibition overview video
Handshake 4 – Polarity from The Wallace Arts Channel on Vimeo.
Polarity is the last exhibition of the Handshake project’s 4th iteration.
The twelve Handshake 4 artists explore the opposing and complementary powers of light and dark by employing considered lighting and display techniques.
These jewellers exhibit work that questions the essential dualities within all of us. They do that in two polarised rooms at the Corban Arts Estate.
MORE
Mark Amery interview
PODCAST
In this pod discussion at a monthly gathering for artists across all disciplines interested in working outside conventional venues we hear from producer Herbee Bartley (Massey College of Creative Arts Pasifika Advisor and co-founder Kava Club) and ‘jewellery activist’ Peter Deckers (Handshake) talk on creating artist support networks beyond institutions, mentoring, current arts sector fatigue around PR and fundraising and seeding artist-run collectives rather than becoming big bodies.
The next Urban Dreams Monthly in Wellington is Tuesday 19 September 12.30pm at meanwhile gallery Level 2, 99 Willis Street. In conversation Jordana Bragg and Jo Randerson. on “owning It: creating enduring artist-run spaces”.
LISTEN
BOOK in pdf
Handshake 3 exhibition at the Frame
HANDSHAKE 3 at Munich Jewellery Week at the FRAME galleries (Handwerks Messe)
Handshake exhibition: Concept & Conception, the FRAME galleries, Internationale Handwerksmesse 2017, Munich
Essay by Peter Deckers for ‘Klimt02’
Kelly McDonald, Manifesto, 2014. Rubber, leather, aluminium, paper, copper, silver, brass, steel, gold, wood, stone, plastic (photo by the artist)
Show it ALL by Peter Deckers
“An interesting and critical article about the meaning, the history, the development, the use, the connection and the presentation of an exhibition”.
Article published in the book Contemporary Jewellery in Context by Peter Deckers.
March 2017
Collaboration process and exhibition, Munich
It Will All Come Out In The Wash
collaboration project with Dialogue Collective
Review of the HS3 exhibition ‘REFLECT’ at the Dowse
Handshaking with Emotion: A Review of Handshake 3: Reflect
By Lucy Jackson
Opening speech notes:
HANDSHAKE second book publication
A series of essays that is written through the lens of the HANDSHAKE project model
Writers include: Kim Paton (NZ) who writes about Teaching, Liesbeth den Besten (NL) writes about
Making, Sian van Dyk (NZ) about Curating, Peter Deckers (NZ) about Exhibiting and
Benjamin Lignel (FR) writes about Collaborating.
MORE
BOOK preview in pdf
catalogue
The HS3 catalogue with writings from Hilde de Decker, Kim Paton, Tanel Veenre, Peter Deckers, Sofia Björkman, a gazette from Dialogue Collective and introductions to the 12 HS3 artists: see CATALOGUE in pdf
HS3 exhibition catalogue at Objectspace
2016
Review of Munich Jewellery week by Philip Clarke
Our contemporary jewellery
artists shine at Schmuck
What has New Zealand jewellery got going for it? Pretty much
everything, Philip Clarke explains in this survey of some of
our jewellery Olympians and their exploits overseas.
ARTICLE by Philip Clark (ArtNews)
SPECIALS : a photo essay of the HandShake Alumni Munich exhibition at the Einsäulensaal in the Munich Residenz Palace.
Click here for more details about this show
DOWNLOAD Munich Specials catalogue LR PDF
Benjamin Lignel (AJF editor) interview with Peter Deckers
Interview
Benjamin Lignel AJF interview with Peter Deckers about the Handshake project.
October 2016
Interview
New eductaional trends and shifts are discussed in this article with Karen Pontoppian: https://artjewelryforum.org/in-conversation-with-karen-pontoppidan
5 April 2016Overview #26
In Overview #26 you can find an article about how the HandShake project has progressed.
exhibition announcement
Sofia Bjorgman & Hilde de Decker at AVID, Wellington, NZ
Essay by Peter Deckers
Jewellery frontiers’ virtual and analogue HANDSHAKE
by
Jewellery across the miles (interview)
Jeweller Amelia Pascoe with works made out of old shoes.
Liesbeth den Besten article for AJF
THE GOLDEN STANDARD OF SCHMUCKASHAU
snip….As a matter of fact, the Handshake project—a mentoring project with young mentees from New Zealand and tutors from all over the world and the brainchild of Peter Deckers—was one of the very few innovative projects that participated in Munich. It was innovative because of the collaboration between mentees and mentors via Internet, Skype, and blogs, and also because the final show involved some work that was made on the spot or was open ended…..end snip
Standing Room Only: Radio NZ
The Handshake Project
Everyone needs a helping hand from time to time. And the Handshake Project, a three-year scheme matching-up emerging jewellers with the superstar mentor of their choice, does just that.
Curator Jo Mears, exhibition at the Dowse (travelled from the Wallace Art Centre and Wallace Gallery)
Retrospect pays respect to New Zealand contemporary jeweller, Peter Deckers
“The works in Retrospect present a magnificent survey of current contemporary jewellery practice,” says curator Jo Mears, “The exhibition pays homage to and ‘gives back’ to Peter Deckers, a mentor who has created many opportunities for new and established artists to exhibit in major public shows.”
Peter Deckers keynote speaker at the JMGA, Brisbane
Participation and Exchange: interactive PARTNERS
READ/see
International Contemporary Jewellery Symposium, Feb 2012
JEMposium ‘Jewellery or What’
JEMposium brings together contemporary jewellers, collectors, curators, critics, and jewellery enthusiasts from New Zealand and abroad to discuss and celebrate the art of jewellery. The symposium will be held in Wellington from 10th-13th of February 2012.
JEMposium : the art of jewellery by Jenah Shaw
JEMposium EXHIBITIONS review by Mark Amery
HANDSHAKE PledgeMe campaign
HANDSHAKE 1 final exhibition of the 3-year project is a collaboration between the Handshake mentee and their mentor exhibited at Objectspace 15 June 2013 – 20 July 2013. Each artist pair made-up their own rules and many did not play it safe.
see exhibition CATALOGUE with artist statements
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