HANDSHAKE

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 New...

My shoes were wet. The tide was changing. We had run out of time.

by Nellie Peoples | April 10, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

I found myself amidst the rocks and seaweed and lapping waves of Karaka Bay following a prompt from Andrea Daly in our History and Theory classes for Handshake 8. We were asked to think about the rules that surround the field of Contemporary Jewellery and in so doing...

The colours of tarnish

by Nellie Peoples | March 26, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

We have had yet another wonderfully thought provoking prompt from Andrea Daly’s Theory and History lecture. We were asked to observe something inanimate over a couple of weeks. We were to pay attention, to see how the inanimate thing changes and evolves, also how it...

Neo-Animism

by Tui Diprose | March 22, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose | 0 Comments

Dream Journal A handwritten note is passed to me. Inside it says, "I would like to sit and drink tea with...

of late.

by Tui Diprose | March 21, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose | 0 Comments

It’s been six months here in Te Wai Pounamu, nestled in the mountains, rivers and lakes (and... sheep, cows, dogs, horses, hawks and ten million hares). Most of the time I’m just doing life, trying not to let overwhelm submerge me, leaning in to gratitude and threads...

Fun with Film Editing

by Rachael Chapman | March 19, 2024 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman | 0 Comments

It's been a really interesting couple of weeks. Part of me is missing the bench and making actual physical art, the other part is quite the nerd and loves the dabble; figuring out creative ways to express ideas through film making. Obviously, I’m a novice and these...

67206 Days, 2276 Full Moons

by Peter Deckers | March 16, 2024 | Curation, Curation Stanley Street, Exhibition, HS alumnus, News | 0 Comments

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...

Books, books, books

by Nellie Peoples | March 13, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

In the Handshake 8 journey we have recently begun our Contemporary Jewellery History and Theory classes with the incredible Andrea Daly. It has been wonderful to stretch my brain in the theory space in a much more focused way. One of our first projects for the class...

Tick tock… you don’t stop,

by Louise Hill | February 24, 2024 | Louise Hill | 0 Comments

I’ve read that as an artist, you should just never stop making. Then you don’t have to start again. An art practice needs to be practiced. …but I stopped for summer. Life happens, school holidays happen and here we are, end of February, getting started again. When I...

The Irrelevance of Truth in Times Like These

by Rachael Chapman | February 21, 2024 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman | 0 Comments

In this post-truth era of intentional misinformation ….I’ve been having a little ponder over ‘memory truth’, and how each persons memory of a situation or object is filtered through the lens of personal experience. Therefore, the truth of a situation is arbitrary,...

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Opening 67206 Days, 2276 Moons

by admin | April 10, 2024 | Curation, HS alumnus, News | 0 Comments

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 New...

My shoes were wet. The tide was changing. We had run out of time.

by Nellie Peoples | April 10, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

I found myself amidst the rocks and seaweed and lapping waves of Karaka Bay following a prompt from Andrea Daly in our History and Theory classes for Handshake 8. We were asked to think about the rules that surround the field of Contemporary Jewellery and in so doing...

The colours of tarnish

by Nellie Peoples | March 26, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

We have had yet another wonderfully thought provoking prompt from Andrea Daly’s Theory and History lecture. We were asked to observe something inanimate over a couple of weeks. We were to pay attention, to see how the inanimate thing changes and evolves, also how it...

Neo-Animism

by Tui Diprose | March 22, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose | 0 Comments

Dream Journal A handwritten note is passed to me. Inside it says, "I would like to sit and drink tea with...

of late.

by Tui Diprose | March 21, 2024 | Handshake8, Tūī Diprose | 0 Comments

It’s been six months here in Te Wai Pounamu, nestled in the mountains, rivers and lakes (and... sheep, cows, dogs, horses, hawks and ten million hares). Most of the time I’m just doing life, trying not to let overwhelm submerge me, leaning in to gratitude and threads...

Fun with Film Editing

by Rachael Chapman | March 19, 2024 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman | 0 Comments

It's been a really interesting couple of weeks. Part of me is missing the bench and making actual physical art, the other part is quite the nerd and loves the dabble; figuring out creative ways to express ideas through film making. Obviously, I’m a novice and these...

67206 Days, 2276 Full Moons

by Peter Deckers | March 16, 2024 | Curation, Curation Stanley Street, Exhibition, HS alumnus, News | 0 Comments

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...

Books, books, books

by Nellie Peoples | March 13, 2024 | Handshake8, Nellie Peoples | 0 Comments

In the Handshake 8 journey we have recently begun our Contemporary Jewellery History and Theory classes with the incredible Andrea Daly. It has been wonderful to stretch my brain in the theory space in a much more focused way. One of our first projects for the class...

Tick tock… you don’t stop,

by Louise Hill | February 24, 2024 | Louise Hill | 0 Comments

I’ve read that as an artist, you should just never stop making. Then you don’t have to start again. An art practice needs to be practiced. …but I stopped for summer. Life happens, school holidays happen and here we are, end of February, getting started again. When I...

The Irrelevance of Truth in Times Like These

by Rachael Chapman | February 21, 2024 | Handshake8, Rachel Chapman | 0 Comments

In this post-truth era of intentional misinformation ….I’ve been having a little ponder over ‘memory truth’, and how each persons memory of a situation or object is filtered through the lens of personal experience. Therefore, the truth of a situation is arbitrary,...

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HANDSHAKE is a mentoring program in which established artists spread their knowledge to less experienced artists. The “knowledge” accumulated in exchange of the relationship based on feedback is implemented in exhibitions and joint projects.