During SCHMUCK 2016 : EXPO ‘SPECIALS, HandShake Alumni exhibition’ – Einsäulensaal, Munich (DE) – 25-27 Fevr. 2016

SPECIALS, a HandShake Alumni exhibition
21 jewellery artists from New Zealand

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Celebration day (artists present) 25.02 14.00 – 16.00

SPECIALS, a HandShake Alumni exhibition features twenty one jewellery artists from New Zealand showing at the Einsäulensaal in the Munich Residenz Palace from 25 – 27 February 2016.
Peter Deckers has curated a special selection of works and projects from the HANDSHAKE programme. This one-off exhibition showcases the best work from the 12 national and international exhibitions over the last 5 years.

The HANDSHAKE Project is an art development programme for progressive ideas, making, presentations, feedback and networking for contemporary New Zealand jewellers.
The project began in February 2011, with emerging jewellers matched in mentoring roles with their chosen idols from all across the globe. Each mentee’s development was not only supported by their mentor but also through a series of workshops, masterclasses and most importantly, exhibitions in prestigious galleries in NZ and beyond.
The HandShake project will begin its third iteration (HandShake3) following the SPECIALS Alumni exhibition. Selected jewellers have been chosen from the first two projects to develop new bodies of work for a fresh series of international exhibitions, with a focus on collaboration in its broadest sense. The purpose of this HS3 programme is to allow the former mentee to become an independent artist, steering their own developments. The mentor now becomes a colleague and in most cases also a fellow art collaborator.

Handshake 3 participants:  Amelia Pascoe — Becky Bliss — Debbie Adamson — Kelly McDonald — Nadene Carr — Sarah Walker-Holt — Raewyn Walsh — Neke Moa — Renee Bevan — Sarah Read — Kathryn Yeats — Sharon Fitness

Kathryn Yeats, necklace 2015

Jhana Millers with mentor Suska Mackert, HandShake 1, Objectspace, Auckland (2013)

 Sarah Walker-Holt , necklace (2015)

Renee Bevan Premonition #1 2014

Sharon Fitness 2015

 

Einsäulensaal
Munich Residenz Palace
Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München
Germany

 

EXPO ‘Handshake 2′ – Toi Poneke Arts Centre, Wellington (NZ) -21 Nov.-13 Dec. 2014

Handshake 2 – Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition

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The three-phase Handshake project embraces and showcases new pathways in art education by giving post-graduation jewellers the opportunity to be mentored by internationally established and well-respected artists of their choice. The culmination of its second phase, the exhibition Handshake 2, will present the work of a select group of thirteen mentees. Half way through a two year professional development programme, their practice, techniques and materials can be seen to have already been expanded and enriched.

with :

Vanessa Arthur — Amelia Pascoe — Suni Hermon — Karren Dale — Julia Middleton — Kelly McDonald – Lisa Higgins — Kathryn Yeats — Raewyn Walsh — Renee Bevan — Sarah Walker-Holt — Soo Jeong Lee — Tineke Jansen

The mentees and mentors are:

Amelia Pascoe and Ruudt Peters  /  Julia Middleton and Terhi Tolvanen  /  Karren Dale and Gemma Draper  /  Kelly McDonald and Kirsten Haydon  /  Lisa Higgins and Cal Lane  /  Kathryn Yeats and Ben Pearce  /  Raewyn Walsh and Henriette Schuster  /  Renee Bevan and Harrell Fletcher  /  Sarah Walker Holt and Helen Britton  / Soo Jeong Lee and Natalia Milosz-Piekarska  /  Suni Hermon and Sally Marsland  /  Tineke Jansen and Ela Bauer  /  Vanessa Arthur and David Neale

Sarah Walker-Holt - Time Parallel Necklace

Rebecca Yeats Necklace

 

Toi Poneke Arts Centre

61 – 69 Abel Smith St, Te Aro,

Wellington 6012 – NZ

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