by Kylie Sinkovich | Jul 4, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Kylie Sinkovich
Japanese design and architecture This has been a source I continually draw on as inspiration since I began my contemporary jewellery journey almost 9 years ago. It probably also stems back even further with a few trips to Japan in my formative years, studying the...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Jun 4, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Kylie Sinkovich
‘Holding space’ An act that is at once present and totally invisible. – Harrison Owen The trust of self organisation, the force that created the universe and brought us to this point, will continue to work its magic. A principle in submitting yourself to...
by Kylie Sinkovich | May 3, 2020 | Curation Stanley Street, Kylie Sinkovich
The container or holder of special jewels and treasured items has always held a sense of intrigue, secrecy, the sacred and a dose of nostalgia for me. It’s like a tiny doorway into another time that I briefly crack open with the creak of a hinge as the velvet (or...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Dec 31, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
In conversation with my mentor Benjamin Lignel on our personal Handshake 4 experiences. My personal Handshake journey started in a haze of self-doubt due to a period of instability in my life. The place I called home changed several times, there was a death in my...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Oct 31, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
Twelve artist’s, eleven mentors, two rooms, one dark, one light, the one and only Peter and Hilda, and three exhibitions including this final show after almost two years of exhibition collaboration together. The ending is sort of bittersweet, as after all the...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Oct 11, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
Peter requested that I make my small intro talk for our opening into a blog so here it is 🙂 I will be sharing a few ideas with you on Polarity: the meeting of opposites; two forces, opposing yet mutually interdependent. It’s all real, and it’s all a dream. All natural...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Jul 25, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
From the macro viewpoint, Earth’s magnetism is an act of repelling and attracting the positive and negative north and south poles, creating a magnetic field which protects us from most solar radiation. And to the microscale, the dance of polarity is the basis for cell...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Jun 18, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
It appears that our mentorship programme is two thirds of the way done and dusted. I’ve been reflecting on where I’ve come from to where I am now during bouts of insomnia/extreme bursts of mental and physical energy. Everyone has their own private battles and mine is...
by Kylie Sinkovich | May 31, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
Participants had between 2 and 4 days (depending on where in the country they were travelling from) to respond to installation artist Gabby O’Conner’s exhibition design/challenge. Drop sheets with grids drawn on them (symbolising the canvas of our...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Mar 11, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
A duality that in reality is affinity Something so fragile we hold afar but is inordinately near Our co-dependency is echoed in shapes as substances dialogue with each other concerning permeation of deleterious waste We are all transitory matter It is only a matter of...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Feb 11, 2018 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
There are often expectations to push a material to & beyond its boundaries when pursuing a design, form or idea so that is original & unexpected. This usually results in considerable wasted material & failures but is also an invaluable way of making new...
by Kylie Sinkovich | Nov 30, 2017 | Handshake4, Kylie Sinkovich
Working with the eventual materials of this project was a significant departure from my typical and ‘safe’ mediums that I am familiar with. The general fragility and unpredictability of these new materials made the tenuous early stages of the creative process even...
