Vanessa Arthur
About Vanessa Arthur
Best laid plans, structure and throwing it all out the window.
I mapped out a structured way to respond to this project and Onnos selected pieces, I planned to make a series of responses to each work - focusing on these in three parts....one piece at a time. So orderly! This format may have come from the added pressure of...
making actions (in three parts)
making actions (in three parts)...... which will overlap I'm sure. part one - currently thinking of Onno's joined works; repair, adjust, improve, reconstruct, replace, mend, reform, substitute. I often start in object samples that work their way into jewellery form...
Conversation starter
In Onno Boekhoudts work, there is a freedom and sense of immediacy, a glimpse into the process of a maker. His work seamlessly bridges and defies definition between jewellery, object and material, drawing the viewer in for further consideration. The pieces selected...
introducing handshake 5
The newly-formed HANDSHAKE 5 group came together for JEWELcamp at Te Auaha (Wellington) with the briefing of the two unique exhibition projects that occurs later this year. Roseanne Bartley workshopped in her masterclass creative ways of approaching the...