To tell the truth, my silversmithing skills are pretty scrappy. I am not a patient person and I kind of make it up as I go along. HANDSHAKE 6 is incredibly valuable opportunity for me because I don’t have a formal jewellery education. This programme situates me within a community of contemporary jewellers and allows me to develop my own jewellery practice in a focused way over two years. Being interested in the conventions and material hierarchies of jewellery, I am excited to be paired with Karl Fritsch as a mentor. I admire how his work playfully subverts traditional understandings of value.
Jack Hadley's posts:
SHAPE SHIFTER: HS6 Fundraiser
The HANDSHAKE6 group has been collaborating on a fundraising necklace project for a while, and they are excited to share the results! These necklaces are a collaboration between the group with each participant designing one of the 12 shapes. There are 4 different...
Object Runway
The title 'Object Runway' alludes to the reality television series 'Project Runway', where fashion designers compete against each other in challenges. Circulating the space on a motorised pulley system are aluminium mobiles. Loosely anthropomorphic, these...
BAD JEWELLERY, GOOD ART?
HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON
Left: Hannah Ireland, Closed Curtains, 2020 Right: Jack Hadley, Baroque Flower Indigo Storm Blue, 2020 Image: Weasel gallery Two weeks ago, I exhibited my jewellery for the first time. This was part of the exhibition HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON at Weasel Gallery. 11 of the...
Jack Hadley's images:
Flapping Headpiece, 2019, Aluminium, flapping decoy pigeon, epoxy putty, 520x350x300mm
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NO Brooch, 2019 Oxidised sterling silver, dyed agate, 40x30x7mm
NO Brooch, 2019 Sterling silver, carnelian, 35x80x5mm