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 admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Caroline Thomas, Exhibition, Handshake5, News, Vivien Atkinson
Lynn Freeman interviews Peter Deckers, Caroline Thomas, Vivien Atkinson and Becky Bliss. Radio NZ interview about HS5 exhibitions and NZ art education by Peter Deckers, Caroline Thomas, Vivien Atkinson, Becky Bliss...
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 admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Becky Bliss, Brendon Monson, Caroline Thomas, Handshake5, Kelly McDonald, Nadene Carr, Neke Moa, Nik Hanton, Sandra Schmid, Sarah Read, Sarah Walker-Holt, Vanessa Arthur, Vivien Atkinson
The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the making...