by Louise Hill | Jun 17, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Justene Williams, is an contemporary Australian artist who makes her large-scale immersive works, using multi-channel video installations, photography and performance. Through challenging social norms, using of found objects and waste materials, collage and...
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 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 | Oct 16, 2023 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
by Rachael Chapman | Sep 19, 2023 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman
The first session with Katharina Detar was so insightful – what a treat to have her special brand of cool and kind, focused on my practice. I am continually humbled by the opportunities that this Handshake programme provides for us. Having time with a head...
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 Rachael Chapman | Mar 20, 2023 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman
I like to think of this as playtime instead of homework. After a fairly prescriptive 3 years on a Degree course, the wide purview of this brief was really enjoyable. It felt like an opportunity to play and have fun with metal again. I won’t go in to the brief...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Jul 1, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
My work does not leave me; it travels alongside me in whatever else I am doing in my life. Recently, while retreating on the Coromandal and working on a selection of ‘multiples’ for Coda, I was reminded of one of my notes, that my making process is not about...
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 Sarah Walker-Holt | Feb 27, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
The artists I have been paired with, Lucy Sarneel, Reka Fekete, and Attai Chen, all resonate with the idea of Thinking through Making. Similarly, I allow my own work to manifest itself as it develops. I see the theme Rough and Raw as a metaphor for Thinking through...
by Nadine Smith | Jun 3, 2018 | Handshake4, Nadine Smith
Merilyn Installing Nik Hanton’s pendants A trip to Sydney to be part of the Handshake Show Super Positions at Stanley Street Gallery provided a great opportunity to make connections with other Handshake artists, art appreciators and collectors. Liza and...
