by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald, Sample
Handshake5 at Te Uru. Image: Tatiana Harper I was really pleased with the circular aspect of my 2 sets of work. I spent months translating OB’s work from 2D to 3D and experienced such an immediate pleasure in making, yet I was producing work that would not be handled...
by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
Images posted at #Whoiswearingwho by visitors to Te Uru And my favourites – the brooch that has become a tiara!!
by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
Image: Steel brooch, Lens Te Uru artist statement: Jewellery’s integral relationship to the body is usually well understood, most often from having worn jewellery ourselves. What we rarely consider is jewellery’s relationship with the objects and spaces around...
by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
Exterior view of Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland Image: Samuel Hartnett The pragmatics of New Zealand’s geographical isolation means that often the internet mediates the information you receive in ways other than algorithmically. As a maker, dealing...
by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
DIY IUDs, installation made as part of my MFA study As mentioned, HS5 is comprised of two exhibitions in 2019, the first at CODA (The Netherlands) and the final, at Te Uru (Auckland). As a maker you’re often asked to respond to external themes or ideas that can...
by Kelly McDonald | Jan 27, 2020 | Handshake5, Kelly McDonald
I had a slow start to this project and in wondering why it was so difficult to begin, I arrived at a combination of factors, the first being that Onno Boekhoudt (OB) is one of my heroes. My introduction to his work and more importantly to his making process, came...
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 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 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 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,...
