On Collaboration

While I am on a kick about the radio,
Michale Parekowhai and his sister were interviewed a few weeks ago.  I think that this is a very interesting idea of how a collaboration might work.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/20110312

Octavia on the Radio

Octavia Cook: Counterfeit Epidermis 

Last weekend Octavia Cook was interviewed by Lynn Freeman ion National Radio.  To listen to the interview follow this link.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/20110403/gallery2

Photography and Jewellery

Hanna Hedman, jeweller  & Sanna Lindberg, photographer, are collaborating on show called “Still-Jewelry” opening at Silke & The Gallery.  So if you are in Antwerp......
Here is what the gallery has to say about the show:




Hanna Hedman & Sanna Lindberg


With the reference to still-life paintings and photography and its inanimate subjects. The photographs are portraits, but its main focus is not the person, but the jewelry. In most of my photographs the people are in many ways life-less with surreal elements.
I am interested in showing my art in diverse ways not just inside the glass-box. Installations, exhibitions, through wearing and through photographs. 
Hanna Hedman


Exhibition "Still-Jewelry"
Hanna Hedman & Sanna Lindberg 
Monday 4th april to Saturday 9th april 
Bar Nadar, Ernest van Dijckkaai 19-20 
2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Opening Sunday 3th april 7pm

handShake

handShake is a mentor ship project and show that will be held at Gallery 20/17 in Sydney.  The project is being curated and conceived by Peter Deckers.  The line up of New Zealand jewellers is comprised of eleven other emerging jewellers who chose their superheros as mentors for the year.  The project culminates in a show at Gallery 20/17.  I was lucky enough to be chosen as a participating jeweller and I in turn chose local artist Judy Darragh as my mentor.  She has been wonderful so far and I am sure she will give me a run for my money!


I have decided to send Judy post card updates on my making progress.  Above is post card #1.


The project is being recorded on a blog and will be updated continually for the year.  You can view the blog here:  Handshake blog.

New Ceramic Jewelry

Two worlds collide in an exciting exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design in NY.  Here is what the MAD website has to say about the show.

A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry

March 15 - September 4, 2011

Museum of Art and Design

A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry explores the manifold appeal of ceramics, especially porcelain, in jewelry. Organized by the Fondation d'Entreprise Bernardaud and curated by the renowned German-born goldsmith and jewelry artist Monika Brugger, the exhibition showcases the versatility and allure of the medium, which can be modeled or cast, used alone or with metal, wood, and stone, and vary in color and texture. Best known as the stuff of the luxurious and the mundane, of fine tableware and technical equipment, when used in jewelry, porcelain sparks the visual and physical sensations to become an object of desire.

Rian de Jong

n° 4 (brooch) 2007

The exhibition showcases the scope and ingenuity of the more than one hundred works on view and features the work of 18 cutting-edge jewelry artists, including creations by such notables as Peter Hoogeboom, Evert Nijland, Ted Noten (The Netherlands), Gésine Hackenberg (Germany), Marie Pendariès (Spain), and Shu-Lin Wu (Taiwan). While some make reference to traditional jewelry in materials and symbolism, others altogether redefine it in substance, form, and matter.