by Caroline Thomas | Feb 9, 2023 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake7
The workshop with Estela Saez was a frustrating, humbling, infuriating and ultimately rewarding experience. Estela is an expert at shining a light on flabby thinking and boy, did I have to shape up and work hard to get my works ready for Galerie Marzee as a result!...
by Caroline Thomas | Jul 26, 2022 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake7
Estela Saez is a force of nature. Despite the limitations of Zoom she managed to herd the cats of Handshake 7 and facilitate some really good making [plus a large dollop of indifferent making by me which Estela rightly identified!]. I hugely enjoyed the input of my...
by Caroline Thomas | Jun 8, 2020 | Caroline Thomas, Curation Stanley Street
A delicious refreshing spin on the origins of gemstones and the various treatments used to enhance their colour and beauty. RECIPE INGREDIENTS Assorted shiny things e.g. faceted gemstones, shattered hard drive, glass beads Polymer clay Rolling pin Baking paper Baking...
by Caroline Thomas | Aug 8, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
Value, importance, worthiness, usefulness, meaningfulness, significance, stature, measurement, control. How you are perceived by others and how you perceive yourself. How an object is perceived by its maker, its seller, its buyer and its audience. Emperor’s New...
by Caroline Thomas | May 3, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
For CODA I’ve been exploring ideas around genealogy, genetics and family trees. What kinship do my pieces share with the three original works they are responding to? How many branches of the family tree separate them and what are the different lineages that...
by Caroline Thomas | Mar 24, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
The starting point of the work I am going to make for Te Uru is Billy Apple’s The Cut Away. To quote from Te Uru’s website, ‘This is part of an ongoing series, started in the 1970s, in which Apple has critiqued the ways that exhibition spaces...
by Caroline Thomas | Mar 24, 2019 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake5
A month ago I started a new job. For four weeks I have been in full-time training which has meant that any progress on my Handshake work has been unwillingly short-changed. For four weeks I have been coming home during the week and slumping on the sofa. staring...
by Caroline Thomas | Dec 14, 2018 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake4
(Photo: Alamy) Well goodbye Handshake4, except it’s not goodbye is it? These past two years have raised more questions than given answers and I have no doubt that these questions will be nagging away for a while yet. I will try to kick them around in an attempt to...
by Caroline Thomas | Jul 11, 2018 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake4
For the upcoming and final (how did that come around so quickly?) HS4 show at Corban Art Centre, we have decided on the title ‘Polarity’. We were asked to write a few words to illuminate our various responses to this title and this was my response:...
by Caroline Thomas | Jun 12, 2018 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake4
I was listening to a podcast on a very wet dog walk today. The podcast was WTF with Marc Maron and it was a replay of an interview he did with Anthony Bourdain in 2011 – http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/repost-anthony-bourdain-from-2011 I would not describe myself...
by Caroline Thomas | May 8, 2018 | Caroline Thomas, Handshake4
On Saturday night, Dave and I went to this show. Dave had seen a poster and we knew we both admired the artist’s work, having seen it adorn the streets of Wellington since we first moved here in 2007. Being the middle-class, middle-aged sticklers for promptness...