by Nadene Carr | Jul 30, 2019 | Handshake5, Nadene Carr
Welding in the garage, my studio is normally in my house, so great to change the scenery. It adds an organic feel to my environment- especially all the petrol smells and machinery. Once Ive managed to weld the steel to a shape I’m happy with its time to bling it up. I...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 29, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
As previously mentioned, CODA houses the full collection of Onno Boekhoudt’s artistic legacy; his work, experiments and the many many objects he collected, including the bench pins/pegs pictured below. Onno’s work and collections from the CODA archive,...
by Nik Hanton | Jul 29, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
When I saw the Eva Rothschild exhibition at Wellington City Gallery I was as drawn to the shadows cast by the works as much as I was drawn to the works themselves. Both were remarkable. I’m wanting to play with shadow in my work for the Te Uru show. The title of...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 25, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
Sketching with light. Materials; steel and solder. Dimensions of both bangles as installed above L 16cm X W 18cm X H 2cm.
by Neke Moa | Jul 21, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Turning an object into a pendant, into something wearable comes with ‘stringing up’ a bit of rope or string or something more interesting. Deciding on what I was going to use to turn these objects into pendants was my last part of the puzzle and...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 16, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
Henry Moore called 1932 ‘The Year of the Hole’. The fact is that Barbara Hepworth made her first pierced form in 1931, the year she gave birth to her first child. Perhaps Hepworth had a more complete sense of the hole than Moore. Perhaps that was because she was...
by Nik Hanton | Jul 15, 2019 | Handshake5, Nik Hanton
There are so many times in making when talking through your work helps to clarify/solidify your thought processes- provided you’re talking with the right person. I had my kōrerorero with Sian van Dyke from the Dowse Art Museum and it offered just that. In...
by Vivien Atkinson | Jul 14, 2019 | Handshake5, Vivien Atkinson
Looking at the use of knitting in relation to war has revealed some other really interesting connections. I have to thank my son for the first discovery – he was listening to a history podcast in the background and caught the words knitting and espionage. Strange...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 11, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
In a 1937 interview with Henry Moore, who famously made holes a feature of his sculpture, he said: The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass. Sculpture in air is...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
In the context of jewellery, Onno believed the hole was the essence. “The hole is the inside of the piece, it touches the body, is intimate and personal – and that, according to Boekhoudt, was what it was all about, although with jewellery it is, in fact,...
by Kelly McDonald | Jul 9, 2019 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
My initial plan for CODA was quite simple: 1. Play 2. Chinese Whispers 3. No Material Hierarchy. HS blogging requires a reveal of your initial plan in this public forum – useful in relation to deadlines and an audience being able to follow your progress, only...