( The Legend of the Pounamu Fish.. The Objectspace exhibition is opening on friday… on collaboration. The video that Karl and I made will not be exhibited alongside our work at Objectspace, instead there will be a link to youtube where people can watch it. This will be in the reader that will accompany the…
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…
With so many amazing artists that went to festpac from Aotearoa, it has been a prolific time of showing some of the work that was made whilst away and a continuation of shows, exhibitions and productions. I was not at the first screening of this soundscape but was lucky enough to see it at the…
With the Objectspace show quickly approaching and mine and Helen’s objects ready and waiting, I thought I would revisit my findings around the subject of metaphors. Back in April, I threw up some questions about moving image being used and understood as one. https://handshake3.com/2016/04/19/video-as-metaphor/ I cannot pertain to completely understanding Lakoff and Johnson’s, Metaphors We Live…
A package arrived on my doorstep today containing our books for the Objectspace show….
Nga mihi ano, I have been away at the Festpac 2016, the Pacific Arts Festival which was held in Guam for the last 17 days. What an intensely inspirational and invigorating time it was! 27 countries from around the Pacific participated with multiple arts deciplines and huge amounts of amazing people. The place was…
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…
Exiting ……………………………
I have had a captivation with technical drawing and graph paper for a number of years, as in a younger life I drew graphs for market analysis. Over the time I have been involved with Handshake, technical drawings through engineering has momentarily, at different points in time, come to the surface. My time spent collaborating…
Concurrent to sparks flying in my studio so was my frustration with the international postal system. Recently I posted a template to Helen as our objects require some areas of precision in order to physically work. Unfortunately, but not detrimentally, the template became lost in mail space for about a month, throwing up a spanner…
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…
Images and extracts from ‘Crackle & Splat,’ essays on contemporary Australian artists, as seen here. ‘As sociologists attest, we are individuated in the production and consumption of infinite differences………… Identity is the accretion of this detail, the array of choices, the intricate web and careful arrangement of one’s stuff, the stories we tell, the things…
‘I would not go as far as to say each work is wholly reliant on the other, but each is related to the other and in a way, would not exist without the other.’ Elisha Buttler Curator at FORM, Western Austrailia I have mentioned awkward beauty, a collaboration of Helen Britton, Justine McKnight and Michelle…
When Helen and I started throwing about ideas for our collaboration the first and most obvious starting point for us, seeing as it is a process we both use, were components. As we progressed the components idea became clouded by other concerns, and as all artwork should in its making, the idea shifted into something…
Legend of the Pounamu Fish a Documentary Stories, myths, legends are the backbone, the heart of a culture, with heroes and heroines, great deeds, adventures, incredible skills, risk, bravery and great rewards. Passed on through the generations; legends grow and develop their own physicality and personality through each retelling and tellers interpretation. Our Ancestral connection…
Back in April……. Emails have been exchanged, slightly nervous phone calls made, shuffling feet and fidgeting digits are abound. This was supposed to be the first weekend where we had a book like creature in our hands to play with – something physical to contemplate, work on, draw, cut, fold and rearrange. As it is,…
It’s pretty obvious that faceting originates from tool making, where stones were dropped into a hot fire to make them split and flake to create a sharp edge. Later it became a lapidary technique. I am starting to see my faceted kauri pieces as modular components that when multiplied create a whole. But why facet…
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