by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jan 19, 2019 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
After busy weeks of online skype meetings with the team, chatting with my mentor, balancing my art practice with my home life work commitments I am finally in Auckland and getting ready for what is going to be our final public Handshake4 exhibition. I am fulled with...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jan 19, 2019 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
Reflecting on my experimenting, research and artistic practice for our Polarities exhibition I think that my artist statement best sums up some of the thoughts that are emerging and reasons to why I have chosen to undertake exploring this body of work with Kaka...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jan 17, 2019 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
I am Naked in front of a room full of strangers left alone @ night the Ruru comforts me whispering old laments from my ancestors Through the pained glass I seeing RISING… Hine Pae Kura She Spreads and Spits Sweet dew drops across the thighs and breast of...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jul 5, 2018 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
Polarity The property of having poles or being polar. “it exhibits polarity when presented to a magnetic needle” the relative orientation of poles; the direction of a magnetic or electric field. plural noun: polarities “the magnetic field peaks in...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | May 10, 2018 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
I have been a bit quiet on this blog and it is only to my dismay that I found a whole set of blog entries that I had compiled in my google docs but alas forgot to publish… was it a secret anxiety that stopped me from posting these thoughts, revelations and rants?...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jan 29, 2018 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
Mahuru a.k.a September was a very busy month for me indeed.I was honored enough to be funded by Creative New Zealand to be able to travel to Melbourne for Radiant Pavilion which is a bi-annual contemporary jewelry festival and attend the MakingOUT Symposium,...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Aug 4, 2017 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
“Don’t focus too much on jewellery” I hear you say? But isn’t this a blog about contemporary jewellery? Yes. It is, but there is so much more involved with “contemporary jewellery” the concepts, materials, movements and happenings around this subject, and...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jul 4, 2017 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
Recently, Wellington the capital city of New Zealand has been humming with Matariki celebrations.For those that do not know what Matariki is, it is the celebration of the Pleiades constellation in the southern pacific and marks the beginning of our Māori new year.The...
by Keri-Mei Zagrobelna | Jun 7, 2017 | Handshake4, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna
After much difficulty trying to get my skype to work me and Jasmin decided that we would video chat over social media instead.It never ceases to amaze me how you can communicate and have real time conversations with somebody halfway across the world in another time...
