by admin | Feb 6, 2026 | Curation, HS alumnus, News
Aotearoa Exchange group performed a unique presentation that opened SCHMUCKmuenchen 2026 at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, on Friday, 6 March. The project brought together more than forty wearable works by twenty Handshake Project alumni artists. Six performers...
by admin | Jan 15, 2026 | Collaboration, Curation, HS alumnus, News
Aotearoa Exchange is presented and performed by Mia Straka, Jessica Winchcombe, Grace Yu Piper, Hilda Gascard, Lisa van Hulst, and Peter Deckers on Fr 06 March 2026, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. The project brings more than forty wearable works by HANDSHAKE...
by admin | Aug 20, 2024 | Curation, News
The second Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial (2025-26) The second Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial, curated by Sian van Dyk will take place at: The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson (8 March – 8 June 2025) and Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North (23 August 2025 – 1 March 2026) Moniek...
by admin | May 2, 2024 | Curation, Curation Stanley Street, Exhibition, HS alumnus, News
April 10 – May 4, 2024 The jewellery artists featured in this NZ exhibition contemplate themes of discovery, origins, integration, and conflict. Becky Bliss Nadene Carr Alpha Cheesman Nina van Duijnhoven Neke Moa Mia Straka Caroline Thomas Sarah Walker-Holt Raewyn...
by admin | Apr 10, 2024 | Curation, HS alumnus, News
Please join us for the opening Saturday 13 April 3-at 5 pm of 67206 days, 2276 full moons, these numbers mark the time since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi…so who’s counting? Nine New Zealand artists from the Handshake Project with the support of Creative...
by Peter Deckers | Mar 16, 2024 | Curation, Curation Stanley Street, Exhibition, HS alumnus, News
NEW EXHIBITION at Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney 67206 Days, 2276 Full Moons April 10 – May 4, 2024 Becky Bliss, Nadene Carr, Aphra Cheesman, Nina van Duijnhoven, Neke Moa, Mia Straka, Caroline Thomas, Sarah Walker-Holt and Raewyn Walsh The NZ jewellery artists...
by admin | Oct 22, 2022 | Curation, Exhibition, HS alumnus, News
‘Whānui’ is an exhibition by ten innovative Aotearoa artists that have participated in former HANDSHAKE projects. The HANDSHAKE project has been for the last 10 years instrumental in supporting early career and emerging jewellery artists, allowing them in...
by admin | Jun 5, 2021 | Curation, Exhibition, News
by Sarah McClintock: A handshake is a sign of peace, in the offering of open hands you are showing that you bear no ill will. A give and take, there is no winner in a handshake. Instead it is a mutual ritual, an exchange of power and expression of trust and respect....
by admin | Apr 4, 2021 | Curation, News
Exhibition & ‘HS Archival Moments’ exhibits 27 March – 17 April 2021 The Refinery ArtSpace, 114 Hardy Street, Nelson, NZ CHAINreaction celebrates 10 years of the HANDSHAKE project. 49 artists who have been directly and indirectly associated with the project...
by admin | Dec 28, 2020 | Curation, News
Friday 26 March – Sunday 4 April, 2021 Nelson Jewellery Week, an inaugural contemporary jewellery event, is to be held in Nelson, New Zealand from Friday 26 March – Sunday April 4, 2021 (The main event happens in the weekend of 26 – 28 March...
by admin | Sep 26, 2020 | Curation, Curation Stanley Street, News
group EXHIBITION at Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney 02 – 23 October, 2020 A group exhibition of new work that connects to the context of traditional jewellery. MORE
by Becky Bliss | Sep 11, 2020 | Curation
Following the theme of The Conventional Reformed, I’ve chosen to make circular brooches, because they have been around through the eras and the shape has been with us since the 5th century. The same palette from the Te Uru exhibition in December 2019 has been...
