by Neke Moa | Jun 23, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
The many decisions that go through the making…adding and subtracting…where to finish when to stop and will there be an ending, a completion. Titles and names have been given, they relate to the process through making and contemplation. This piece...
by Neke Moa | Jun 23, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Kainga -Home Home: tastes, smells, sounds and sensations, we carry these as we travel as we move from place to place. I have been looking at sound, soundscapes, mix tapes, layers of sound, beats, lyrics. Songs, waiata that transport us through time and space, that...
by Vivien Atkinson | Jun 20, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Social history has provided me with a rich source of ideas and material for making work. The rapid changes in the way we live our lives are a part of human progress, but the speed with which we embrace changing fashions and technologies sometimes comes at the cost of...
by Brendon Monsoon | Jun 19, 2019 | Brendon Monson, Handshake5
All three of the pieces I am to respond to would have had to have been designed/modeled in CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. I have taught myself how to use a couple of pieces of software via online tutorials on youtube etc.. It can be a real challenge using the...
by Vivien Atkinson | Jun 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Artists using order and repetition often create works that result in large arrangements that can seem obsessive and even claustrophobic. Lam de Wolf use of splashes of paint and the fraying of torn fabric offer the opportunity for disorder to invade the rigidity of...
by Nadene Carr | Jun 6, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Image- car with stickers. someone who loves bling ’New ! Bigger and shinier than ever’ there’s so many teasers to entice the love of bling. Colour, shape, size, all require lots of play. Sound, hierarchy, size, consumerism, flashy, gaudy it just keeps on giving. I...
by Nadene Carr | Jun 6, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Marquette – brass, spray paint, hot glue This is me having an easy play for an outcome that I would like to do using mild steel and wire by wielding. I’ve got to say there’s something in using a hot glue gun!! Essence is something I have found in all three of my...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Jun 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
Feature Image: Memory – Family photo, Artist Unknown I am reminded of a family memory and photo of my family activating an installation that I think was on Te Papa’s Roof top in the mid-2000s. Te Uru Intent; Create an intimate and personal encounter with work that...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Jun 4, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
Chip off the ol’ Block Chippy Prone to error Fallible These are some of my most recent notes taken as I work, thoughts inspired by my making, a select few that resonate with me more than others. At the earlier stages of this investigation of process, Roseanne Bartley...
