by Simon Swale | Feb 8, 2023 | Handshake7, Simon Swale
After many false starts, explorations. experimentations and near breakdowns… we got there. It was another wild ride on the runaway bus that is the Handshake Project, and this one- Handshake7, was almost the one that broke the camels back. Overlapping with the tail end...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Feb 7, 2023 | Handshake7, Nina van Duijnhoven
Just like that, 2022 has been and gone, and we are already in the 2nd month of the new year. As Dubowski puts it: “We are paper thin. We exist on luck amid the percentages, temporarily. And that’s the best part and the worst part, the temporal factor.” As the years...
by Mia Straka | Dec 23, 2022 | Exhibition, Handshake7, Mia Straka
*Oliver Burkeman, Sam Harris podcast #289 Time management for mortals approx 22:29 minutes I’m interested in how we experience, value and record time. As a social medium adornment has the potential to act as catalyst, conduit and communicator in this realm. I invited...
by Fran Leitch | Nov 21, 2022 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
Sleeves (2020), Detail Cotton, thread, binding. Sleeves (2020), Detail. Sleeves (2020), Detail. Sleeves (2020), Detail. Sheet (2020), sheet, thread. Would you do the HS6 again? 100% yes! Looking back through...
by Fran Leitch | Nov 21, 2022 | Fran Leitch, Handshake6
Gathered (2022). Fabric, thread and cord. 1m drop, 350mm width. I have been making these bags throughout the HS6 as space fillers, I used them to gather and hold collections of teeth, hair, rags and dust, but now they are empty! This emptiness now gathers and holds...
by Mia Straka | Nov 5, 2022 | Exhibition, Handshake6, Mia Straka
During our two and a half years together as HandShake6 from January 2020-mid 2022, the world has undergone tremendous upheaval. This has affected us all and as artists can be seen reflected in our work. We chose Morph as our collective title and theme...
by Nikki Perry | Nov 2, 2022 | Handshake6, Nikki Perry
I wrote my last blog in September 2021. So it’s a wrap (see cover shot of all our names peeled off the wall). Our final show Morph, Aug 27 2022 – Oct 8 2022, at NorthArt in Auckland. We arrived, set-up, and opened. Small turn out for Auckland. I showed my face....
by Macarena Bernal | Oct 21, 2022 | Handshake6, Macarena Bernal
I began to think about this idea back when Handshake 6 started. Back when the Social uprising in my country had just began. This nonsensical news article hit me in my soft spot I guess. I took me all of two years to get it out of my system. Pearl Molotov, jewellery...
by Mia Straka | Oct 20, 2022 | Exhibition, Handshake6, Mia Straka
Shown on screen as part of my contribution to our final Handshake6 exhibition Morph at NorthArt in Auckland 2022, these works introduce time based media to my practice as a way to contextualise and project adornment across time and space. The first three of these...
by Susan Videler | Oct 16, 2022 | Handshake6
‘Any group, society, institution, or organisation that encourages women to revile the eccentric, to be suspicious of the new and unusual; to avoid the fervent, the vital, the innovative; to impersonalise the personal, is asking for a culture of dead women.’ Clarissa...
by admin | Sep 15, 2022 | Handshake6, News
MORPH HS6 exhibition, NORTHART, Northcote, Auckland, 30th August – 8th October 2022 ‘MORPH’ represents the final body of work created by the twelve artists of Handshake 6. MORE Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial The first Jewellery Triennial is at Objectspace, Auckland, 10...
by Nina van Duijnhoven | Sep 11, 2022 | Handshake7, Nina van Duijnhoven
Being able to relax and enjoy workshops has become a lot easier since I have been in the Handshake programs. Before my very first masterclasses with Iris Eichenberg in February 2020, I hardly slept and was very stressed. Not knowing what to expect, and not...
