by Tui Diprose | Nov 7, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
To heal; heal the waters. https://handshakeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/20241030_163822.mp4 My work through HANDSHAKE8 explores themes of talisman, place, land, healing of matrilineal lines by connecting to matriarchal power, embodiment,...
by Tui Diprose | Aug 14, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
This stone talisman was made in part of a deepening inquiry into matriarchal energy and matrilineal lines, embodiment and intuition. I explore this stone and others in varying ways, allowing instinct to guide me. I cleansed and blessed it in a stream on the land I...
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 16, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
Ana Mendieta was born in Cuba in 1948. Her father, Ignacio Mendieta, was a lawyer who had worked with the FBI during World War II. In 1960 he became involved in an uprising against Fidel Castro and was concerned for the safety of his family. At 12, Ana Mendieta and...
by Louise Hill | Jun 12, 2024 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
When Judy Chicago was a student at UCLA in the late 1950s, she took a class called “Intellectual History or Europe,” where her male professor declared that women had made zero contributions to European history. Aware of how little Chicago to start what...
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 Louise Hill | Dec 8, 2023 | Handshake8, Louise Hill
I often listen to audio books during the long days of making in my studio. I’ve also been working to lift my parenting game (which often looks like an attempt at creating the kiwi version of ‘Bad mom’s.’) It was in this vein that I listened to, ‘How to Raise Girls Who...
by Tui Diprose | Oct 16, 2023 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
by Tui Diprose | Sep 22, 2023 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose
My life is in boxes, now neatly arranged in piles around the house. A moment of reprieve amongst the chaos. I’m about to move to the other side of the country, so my making practice is stalled until I can re-settle. In the past month or so I found myself...
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...
