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second HS book: Contemporary Jewellery in Context: a Handshake Blueprint  (2016)

The lens of the HANDSHAKE project with its wide palette of contextual themes and concepts is used to highlight current art practices with the conditions and interconnections of education, making, presentation, marketing and networking in design and art.

Contributing writers are Kim Paton (NZ), Liesbeth den Besten (NL), Sian van Dyk (NZ), Peter Deckers (NZ), Benjamin Lignel (Fr),  Editor: Peter Deckers Design: Becky Bliss. Publisher: Arnoldsche, Germany

View on publisher’s website

Contemporary Jewellery in Context (pdf version)

 

Publications - HANDSHAKE project

Catalogue: SPANpoints with writings from Hilde de Decker, Kim Paton, Tanel Veenre, Peter Deckers, Sofia Björkman, a gazette from London-based ‘Dialogue Collective’ and introductions to the practices of the twelve HS3 artists.

2016

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catalogue: SPECIALS twenty-one jewellery artists from New Zealand

First HS anniversary catalogue for the HS group exhibition at the Einsäulensaal, Munich, during Munich Jewellery week 2016

organised by Makers 101 and curated by Peter Deckers

February 2016

Einsäulensaal in the Munich Residenz Palace, Munich, Germany

DOWNLOAD Munich Specials catalogue  in pdf

 

HANDSHAKE front and side lap

first HS book: ​HANDSHAKE, 12 contemporary jewellers connect with their heroes

HANDSHAKE publication (2013)

Contributors 

Editors: Peter Deckers & Mary-Jane Duffy, Design: Beck Bliss, Photo editing: Peter Deckers

Publicer: JEMbooks, PO Box 40865, Upper Hutt, Wellington 5140, New Zealand

VIEW THE ENTIRE BOOK in pdf

VIEW HANDSHAKE 1 COLLABORATION EXHIBITION CATALOGUE AT OBJECTSPACE, AUCKLAND

HANDSHAKE – 12 contemporary jewellers meet their hero

This 112 page book has a collection of mentees’ notes, as well as statements and work images from their two years’ apprenticeship. It features work and images from the mentees and mentors, essays from Benjamin Lignel (biographies of the 12 mentors plus an essay), Mary-Jane Duffy (mentee and mentor questionnaire texts), Raewyn Walsh (essay about historical connections to learning processes and systems in NZ context), Andrea Wagner (mentor reception introduction text), Sharon Fitness (mentee reception text), with an introduction to the project and essays by Heather Galbraith, Dean of Massey University, Wellington, NZ

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LEANINGS: handshake 4

AT PAH HOMESTEAD, AUCKLAND

The twelve artists from the HS4 group showcased their yearlong developments in their first group exhibition called LEANINGS: handshake 4, curated by Peter Deckers.

Oct 2017

LEANINGS: handshake 4 in pdf

MORPH: handshake 4

Exhibition catalogue: ‘MORPH’ represents the final body of work created by the twelve participants of Handshake6

view HS6 exhibition at North Art, Auckland

October 2022

Morph catalogue (pdf version)

 

HANDSHAKE 2

History of HandShake2
The participants’ first event together was a
Jewelcamp weekend in April 2014. This weekend
allowed mentees to get to know each other
and to see each other as another resource to
be developed and drawn on throughout the
programme.

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