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Something I have been reflecting on recently… My favourite works of art are those I don’t immediately understand. Generally, there will be something that draws me in that makes me want to try – and in that attempt whole new worlds, appreciations, or perspectives are opened up to me. Other times I accept that I…
In Handshake 1 I worked with Swedish jeweller Hanna Hedman. She was unavailable for this project, so when it came to applying for HS3 I decided to approach someone a bit closer to home to work with for the collaboration. I asked a few friends and colleagues for suggestions, looking to find someone who was not…
I am going to hold a 1cm slice of this wax for one hour every day.
Our collaboration choice this week was to give each other a recipe and to interpret it. Mine was- Here is a recipe: (I found it in an old old sketch book) How to: make a lei from an old frock and recipe book Cut patterns from the fabric, cut recipe book for stiffened backing, sew…
These last couple of weeks I have been making. And while making I have been thinking about rocks. The stories or vignettes we attach to rocks develop independently to its own existence which is tied up in a whole other narrative. As a kind of re-enchantment, the rock forms I hammer from silver are hollow,…
Here’s a snippet of an article I came across yesterday in a cafe magazine: The artist is photographer Bruce Connew, the subject is his process for putting together his latest collection of images. Bruce’s process reads as gradual, logical, methodical – a measured progressive system: amass the many potential elements edit and refine sequence and…
As part of the Handshake 3 programme there are 4 exhibitions across the next 2 years. Two revolve around collaborations. The first focuses on the individual collaborative projects organised and driven by each handshaker, to be shown in July at Objectspace in Auckland. The second is a group effort between the handshakers and the London group…
https://dialoguemeetshandshake.wordpress.com/ An image of my life at 10am and 10pm each day, to contrast with Dialogue Collective in the UK. Same time, different place. Their night, our day. Their day, our night.
I am excited to be working with Fran Allison for the collaboration . We have decided to chose a common material the “t-shirt” to use through out our joint project. We both use textiles in our work and after a great discussion around this topic agree that it’s not always easy adding this material to…
Handshake 3 collaborated with the Dialogue Collective in London for a 7 day project exploring the same time, 9am and 9pm (or thereabouts) in each country as an exercise to get to know each other. You can see more of this project here. This is where I was and what I was looking at: …
With 2.5 weeks to go before the 30th anniversary show at Masterworks I decided my meagre offerings had the potential to become a test drive for my Platina plan so I set about melting some blobs in rapid succession. I had only made 7 objects for this show originally so needed to melt down an…
I am looking at videos that are about process, so where better to start than how chain is made………..
29Jan16: Lisa Walker and I went Op Shopping in Newtown. We decided to buy anything that caught our eye and many things did. I was curious to see whether she would notice something I had seen – sometimes yes, sometimes no. The op shops in Wellington are so much better than in Auckland – it…
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