by Sarah Read | Jan 29, 2020 | Handshake5, Sarah Read
With such different CODA works to start from, I’m running three concurrent projects and am in danger of disappearing up my own bum. Mentor Roseanne Bartley urges me to pause and get my bearings. It’s time to reflect, to find the common thread. Use the...
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 admin | Jan 23, 2020 | Exhibition, Handshake5, News
Handshake 5: In Dialogue – an exhibition in which 12 emerging New Zealand contemporary jewellers respond to artworks from the permanent collection of CODA Museum, the Netherlands The review is by Rosanne Bartley and published by Contemporary HUM. READ...
by Neke Moa | Dec 22, 2019 | Handshake5, Neke Moa
Title: Ukaipo – mother, source of sustenance, origin, real home Explored through beach finds shell and wood, my new home is explored and captured through pieces of daily activity and finding place. Tangaroa and Hinemoana echo and reassure providing...
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 Sandra Schmid | Dec 7, 2019 | Handshake5, Sandra Schmid
On a visit to Auckland I was fortunate to explore the TeUru gallery space. What would the building tell me? Can I hear the voice or the essence? How does it sit in the environment as well as in the community? The very first impression was a tete a tete of old and...
by Sarah Walker-Holt | Dec 7, 2019 | Handshake5, Sarah Walker-Holt
Te Uru is a space that activates movement and viewing through its design, leading you through spaces, up stairwells and looking out of windows. Working with this space, ‘Activate’ is a series of 9 brooches that are made from the construction plywood that supports...
