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I have not blogged for a while because I have been very busy planning and preparing: Before starting my Handshake journey in 2011 I thought my only chance of travelling from little old New Zealand to Germany to experience Schmuck week in Munich would be if I miraculously got into Schmuck – something that seemed…
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…
https://lux.org.uk/work/a-phrenological-self-portrait re·flec·tion (rĭ-flĕk′shən) n. 1. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. 2. Something, such as light, radiant heat, sound, or an image, that is reflected. 3. a. Serious thinking or careful consideration: engaged in reflection on the problem.b. A thought or an opinion resulting from such thinking or consideration: wrote down…
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.
“It will all come out in the wash” a collaboration exhibition between Handshake and Dialogue Collective. Munich Jewellery Week 2017 17-20 H 84GHZ MIT LOT62 “It will all come out in the wash” Handshake meets Dialogue Collective, Schleissheimer Strasse 62. 9-12 March Fri-Sun 12-19h
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
Handshake meets the dialogue collective Just how do you collaborate on top of collaborating? Where does it start, where does it end and what’s in the middle, what becomes of two groups of people from opposite sides of the world when they have to make work together? Recently I have tried to find examples…
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.…
A scrap of an idea is brewing. Watch this space!
The last three years has been incredibly rewarding, but extremely intensive. Getting into the great outdoors has been a big part of my re-invigoration process prior to launching into new projects for our grand finale exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum in August. These photos were taken on the way up to/at Lake Mavis in Arthurs…
It has been such an honour to be exhibiting alongside Sarah Maxey, Matthew McIntyre Wilson and Moniek Schrijer in this group exhibition at Bowen Galleries. We were keen to find a way to integrate our works and settled on a domestic setting – allowing for a range of wall works, publications, wearable and non-wearable objects…
The exhibition at Platina in Sweden, and the launch of my first official artist book On the Origin of Species provide a great incentive to refresh my website. I was aiming for something simpler and cleaner with more focus on imagery as opposed to text. While I’m still uploading content and tweaking the layout, the bones…
Thanks to some speedy smooth talking from Sofia, the works were released from customs in the nick of time. Not being on site to participate in the install, opening and general shenanigans was much harder than I expected. To help make up for it, I had my own personal opening celebration here in Wellington with…
Sometimes you have an idea that you sit with for years and it doesn’t change, it doesn’t diminish in it’s desire to be realised and you still feel excited about it every time you think of it, it could even be the start of a shift in your work, it feels important, but you don’t…
In from the garden and arranging wee potatoes and peas on the kitchen bench? Probably a frustrated jeweller. Within the freedom of not actually making anything, I was interested in the idea that they had to go around the neck – it’s one of the obvious places for jewellery (not veg) but the neck as a…
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