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Circumstances of late have made me think that now would be a good time to talk about my material of choice, wood, and quite frankly I see it as a good place to start reflecting. While being mentored by Helen Britton we discussed style surfing and how the internet provides a haven for makers to…
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…
I have been trying to get a bit flasher with my Meteors From Space installation for their next appearance. My experiments into spacial illumination have shown some positive results, however the universe will only be visible in a darkened room. Similarly it is almost impossible to see stars when the Sun is in the sky.…
The Rarotonga night sky and its surroundings are pure black like thick black oil paint. The sound of the ocean repeats. As the wind blows a sea of candles flicker, some blow out, others dance in the darkness. This blackness is in stark contrast to the pure white we used to paint the graves earlier…
This blog is a glimpse of input and output; research and outcome; a glimpse into some of my process and what feeds work. My process is about filling my head. Reading; thinking about things; again, and again; and then differently; having conversations, observing what is around me and reflecting on experiences. This blog is a…
French chalk – for some inexplicable reason, I could have stared at this piece of chalk for a whole day – it had a lot of what Sarah Read would call ‘jewelleryness’ as did the watering can rose pictured. Hand forged bolt from door with deliberate markings that matched other pieces from the same door…
‘Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech’ Susan Sontag
Project 1 – Photos am/pm – April 2016 https://dialoguemeetshandshake.wordpress.com Project 2 – String of words, am/pm – April 2016 HS – Morning/light Lighten up / Soft haze / The sun rises over the range of hills, a ray hits the glass houses on the windowsill, fracting around the room. / bright / cupboard is…
Finding my jewelleryness whakapapa – or the lineage to my conceptual development. The next big project we are working towards in Handshake 3 is a show at The Dowse Art Museum curated by Sian van Dyk. In preparation for this event, Sian has invited us to ‘Reflect’ on how and why we do jewellery. Having…
Spencer Finch, Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning, 2014, National September 11 Memorial Museum. Recalling his experience in making a small prototype of the work at ground zero; “A construction worker came by — a kind of wise guy — and looked at it and said, ‘You forgot the red ones’,…
So my plan was to check the lay of the land and see what the location, available tools and materials and culture, prompts. After a week I’ve taken heaps of images of things that spark my interest for various reasons, from things around the garden to Bass Rock out from Edinburgh. So far there’s no particular…
Earlier this year, Helen invited me to Munich to attend her upcoming workshop, Structures, Folds and Rivets at Akademie für Gestaltung und Design [Academy of Art and Design]. Helen rarely does workshops these days and she suggested it was a perfect opportunity to work through making a prototype from beginning to end that wasn’t over…
Meteors – just stick a pin in them and call them a brooch. My installation at Platina was an adventure into 2d/3d space. I thought making the scatter of 100 Meteors look random would be easy if I started with the smallest ones and progressed up to the longest ones. This was reasonably successful –…
Having discovered the existence of online antipodes maps (maps which show you one place and then the place directly opposite it on the globe) naturally I had to see what was opposite my house. This is what I discovered: A beautiful piece of Spanish farmland. At first I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t…
Renee Bevan, History Undisclosed, 2016 Exhibited at Galerie PLATINA, Stockholm, Sweden as part of the exhibition Handshake3. I have always wanted to attend a police auction. So many objects with such sinister pasts. Each objects past undisclosed; its history unknown. It was on the 24th March 2016 that I attended my first police auction at…
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