A snapshot of the event – so much fun working with everyone View this post on Instagram 50% dialogue collective 50% handshake #dialoguecollective #itwillallcomeoutinthewash #mjw17 #schmuck #blackandwhite A post shared by Dialogue Collective (@dialoguecollective) on Mar 20, 2017 at 9:53am PDT  

A quick snap shot of the setup process. After more than a month back I am finally beginning to get through the jewellery hangover that followed from exposure in March.

So I just finished packing these guys – accumulations of plastic matter conglomerates for the handshake3 show at the messe. Phew, nearly there…Munich here we come!  

Some beautiful memories coming in for my project. Submissions are still open if you want to take part! https://proothatweexist.wordpress.com/contact/ View this post on Instagram Doubling as a test piece: an incomplete memory of mine from the archive about meeting a stranger whose name I’ll never know. Thanks to everyone so far who has shared their memories…

For the Handshake meets Dialogue Collective exhibition at MJW in March, It will all come out in the Wash, I am doing an exchange project; and this project starts now. In Up close and far away, I invite the online audience to take part in a simple exchange. I am collecting memories, via this website. These memories…

Getting ready to start my project for the collaborative exhibition ‘It will all come out in the wash‘, showing during Munich Jewellery Week, March 9th – 12th.

Working across two projects in the lead up to MJW has got my mind well and truely in two places. On the one hand, I am thinking about the physical qualities of a material (plastic); contemplating its geological impact – how tiny particles can circulate our oceans, potentially sediment and conglomerate to make new forms…

Meanwhile…… Coming up in March, Handshake 3 has two seperate exhibitions running during Munich Jewellery week. The first show cases existing work (although in my case I am developing a few more pieces) which has been curated by Liesbeth den Besten, Sofia Björkman and Peter Deckers; and the second calls for new work, responding to the…

Image of the day – Minerals and gemstones courtesy of early 70’s periodical New Zealand’s Nature Heritage

In the time between the Handshake show at Objectspace and ar Platina I also had a solo show at Avid Gallery in Wellington. This work – called ‘Accumulations of Plastic Matter’ – became the basis for the work I produced for Platina, and am currently developing further for the HS showcase at Munich in March.…

For a while now, I have been accumulating dust, shavings, and off cuts of plastic in my studio. It started with a project where I used lino tools to carve texture into the surface of some vinyl and couldn’t bring myself to throw away the neat pile of gratings caught in my bench cloth. I…

Throughout the collaboration project with Nichola I have been working away in the background developing works for the upcoming show at Platina. Many of the musings that have fed into this work made it into the book we created together, but other references have been sitting on the side line. Here are two books that…

A small insight into the book that we produced – words and images are the product of conversations between Nichola and I, with print and layout designed by Aaron. ‘what is the nature of the breath which moves within an inanimate object, that forms the resonance with the audience,   the intimate, the voodoo of negative…

Handshake 3 at Objectspace, Auckland. July -August 2016 Under the the umbrella of an exhibition that is about collaboration, Nichola and I decided to explore new territory together and create a kind of document – one that charts the space of getting to know and work with one another. Our underlying thread was of fragments, including exchanges…

It’s a week away from the opening at Objectspace. By now everyone has their work complete, sent to the gallery, and the team in Auckland are putting together the presentation details, including writing for the reader which will accompany the show. Having spent the last three months immersed in the exchange of words, images and…

A package arrived on my doorstep today containing our books for the Objectspace show….

A while ago I was listening to a podcast on technology and the presenter recounted something that has really stuck with me. It was about the invention of television and response from some critics at the time. Apparently, while widely applauded, there were those who truely believed that television in the home would never be…

There’s something really compelling about seeing the words we have written move from screen to paper. The analogue version of what has been a very digital exchange. When the idea of making a book from our correspondence first came about, I found myself thinking about what this transition implies. What is it that the physicality…