by Louise Hill | Jun 6, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Judy (Judith Darragh, my handshake mentor), has suggested I take a look at a series of performance Artists who deal with the body and a piece that I find meaningful. I am starting with the incredible Yoko Ono. Ono’s work often questioned the...
by Tui Diprose | Mar 21, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
It’s been six months here in Te Wai Pounamu, nestled in the mountains, rivers and lakes (and… sheep, cows, dogs, horses, hawks and ten million hares). Most of the time I’m just doing life, trying not to let overwhelm submerge me, leaning in to gratitude and...
by Louise Hill | Feb 24, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
I’ve read that as an artist, you should just never stop making. Then you don’t have to start again. An art practice needs to be practiced. …but I stopped for summer. Life happens, school holidays happen and here we are, end of February, getting started again. When I...
by Tui Diprose | Apr 27, 2023 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
Creativity is a river. Creativity is a fire. https://handshakeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230417_160550.mp4 In the recent PUSH PULL workshop with Renee Bevan I found myself contemplating rivers as jewellery: I am imagining giant snake-like rivers...
by admin | Apr 5, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
It’s the word I have been given to guide me through my latest handshake tasks. Whilst I’d prefer a kinder word, something more inspiring, it’s been an accurate synopsis of my progress. The task is to take an alternative material, for me, tire inner tubes, and explore...
by Mandy Flood | Jul 3, 2022 | Handshake7, Mandy Flood
I am a believer of what you put in equates to what comes out. So how did someone who works with enamel, concrete and silver end up with fabric and thread? She took a risk, got inspiration from Estela and had the time to explore. The opportunity to do this is due to...
by Mia Straka | Dec 18, 2021 | Handshake6, Mia Straka
Here we are then, December 2021. What a time. During the past two years I was challenged by my illustrious mentor Manon Van Kouswijk to stop working with the materials and medium I was most comfortable with; metal and jewellery, in order to expand my horizons and...
by Mia Straka | Jul 29, 2020 | Handshake6, Mia Straka, Sample
Practicing NOT making jewellery NOT using metal To move beyond where I’m at It’s a challenge Everything wants to be a necklace Collecting, Deconstructing, Reconstructing A double sided homemade cardboard loom with a built in hole Site for experimental...
by Simon Swale | Apr 17, 2020 | Handshake6, Simon Swale
LOCKDOWN… What a difference a few weeks make. This is a crazy time…. Just struggling to get any perspective on life at the moment. At least we have art I suppose…. My MFA exhibition was meant to open, basically the day we went into lock down. It is still there in the...
by admin | Apr 12, 2019 | Curation, Handshake3, Handshake4, News
by Lieta Marziali An essay about the exhibition Te Ao Hurihuri /Ever-Changing Worlda collaboration between Dialogue Collective and Handshake Project, The Crypt Gallery, London, 23-27 October 2018. Read it on...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Apr 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
My understanding of the term ‘Actants’ comes mostly from Bruno Latour’s, Technology is Society Made Durable, where his initial engagement with the reader describes a scenario of European hotels displaying notices to remind patrons to return their room keys on...
by Nadine Smith | Jul 25, 2018 | Handshake4, Nadine Smith
Fueled by a bowl of porridge and a walk on the skyline my mind was sure to wander. You wondered about that cow picture didn’t you?! Walking lets my imagination roam free and is a necessary part of my process. What my hands and mind have been up to lately: Lots...
