Sarah Walker-Holt
About SARAH WALKER-HOLT
The Inbetweener
How can utilising basic drawing techniques [abstractly] and then taking them through an impromptu rendering process at the bench, via materials and techniques, inform an established contemporary practice in an effort to comprehend and reinterpret drawing from a...
An Expedition – Part 2
Part 2 is an interview that pertains to questions about the two exhibitions put to the three coaches and the Handshake5 artists. The opportunity to create a dialogue with those involved to express perspectives and experiences brings consideration to both Handshake5...
An expedition – Part 1
October 2019 Artist and HS5 participant SARAH WALKER-HOLT travelled to CODA museum in the Netherlands. This is her story: Handshake5 is my third participatory reiteration in the Handshake Project and as a consequence I am engaged in articulating the results of the...
Activate/Te Uru
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...
From the colours Toni gave me/Te Uru
Printmaker Toni Mosely has been a fantastic and generous supporter over the last few years, helping me to revisit printmaking techniques and utilize a set of rollers that my husband, just happened to pick up somewhere years ago, and had stashed for that auspicious...
Like a New Piece of Paper/Te Uru
I’ve always been a maker that is completely comfortable working with a material that has seen better days. I like how I can transform it into something new yet retain something of its original form. One of the biggest challenges can be dissecting the original object...
Cutting a Straight Line/Te Uru
For a change, I am working with the rules of thumb and not against them. Normally, overlooking procedures and finding my own way is my true nature. Sometimes it is good to learn the correct way first before breaking the rules but not knowing them in the first place...
Autobiographical/CODA
Recently, the book Public and Private Worlds: Women in Contemporary New Zealand[1] crossed my path as I scanned through an op shop in Thames. In chapter 5, Women and Art, Anne Kirker speaks of some significant NZ woman artists that have paved the way for coming...
Leftovers/CODA
My work does not leave me; it travels alongside me in whatever else I am doing in my life. Recently, while retreating on the Coromandal and working on a selection of ‘multiples’ for Coda, I was reminded of one of my notes, that my making process is not about...
Experience as Communicator/Te Uru
Feature Image: Memory – Family photo, Artist Unknown I am reminded of a family memory and photo of my family activating an installation that I think was on Te Papa’s Roof top in the mid-2000s. Te Uru Intent; Create an intimate and personal encounter with work that...
The True Nature/CODA
Chip off the ol’ Block Chippy Prone to error Fallible These are some of my most recent notes taken as I work, thoughts inspired by my making, a select few that resonate with me more than others. At the earlier stages of this investigation of process, Roseanne Bartley...
Interior Space/Te Uru
