HandSHAKE – Prentice and prodigy

A mentor project, called HandShake has been taking up all of my blog energy these last few months.  You can visit the project here.


The first show in association with this project is opening on 9th August at Studio 20/17 in Sydney.

Egalitarian project -
Kristin D'Agostino

Opening Drinks – Tuesday 9th August 6-8pm.

To be formally opened by Dr Karin Findeis Subject Chair, Jewellery and Object Lecturer, Jewellery and Object,Sydney College of the Arts
An exhibition of work by 12 New Zealand contemporary jewellery recent graduates  developed over a period of time with their chosen mentors.
Curated by Peter Deckers.
Karl Fritsch for Neke Moa, Lucy Sarneel for Nadene Carr, Iris Eichenberg for Sarah Read,Warwick Freeman for Jess Winchcombe, Fabrizio Tridenti for Becky Bliss, Andrea Wagnerfor Lindsay Raine, Hanna Hedman for Debbie Adamson, Estela Sàez Vilanova for Gillian Deery, Judy Darragh for Kristin D’Agostino, Suska Mackert for Jhana Millers, Lisa Walkerfor Sharon Fitness, Rian de Jong for Sam Kelly. The combination of this esteemed group of masters and their prodigies of budding New Zealand jewellery artists makes for an exciting and much anticipated exhibition of fresh, invigorating and sometimes challenging, work.
In presenting this exhibition in conjunction with Sydney Design 2011 a tradition of cross-cultural collaboration between Australia and New Zealand, and within the discipline of contemporary jewellery, will be continued.
The nature of this project departs from more common exhibition formats, which focus on a theme or the curator’s perspective to bring to together a group of artists. Here, a group of emerging artists will have the opportunity to develop work in collaboration with a mentor. In this project, the traditional practice of the passing on of craft/artisan skills through a classical apprenticeship is revived in a contemporary context. The partnership and dialogue between the graduate and their mentor is a great opportunity for the graduates to learn more, but also for the established maker to bring forward their knowledge and share with the new generation of makers. See the blog of the project development at http://handshakejewellery.wordpress.com

Nadene Carr

Broach of the Month Club + Masterworks 2011 is born

The 2011 Broach of the Month Club kicked off last week.   The work is super exciting and the wearers are thrilled to don their brooches.  With the new club is a new BROACH OF THE MONTH CLUB WEBSITE.

Drawing collaboration

As part of the Broach of the Month Club Thinkspace show, wearer Garth O'Brien and I collaborated on a drawing project. He saw an antique brooch an bought it.  So together we drew up new brooches from the antique and the brooches in the BOM 2010.  This is what I came up with.  To see the originals BOM brooches go here.

Kristin D'Agostino + Tatjana Panyoczki + Garth O'Brien Antique 

Raewyn Walsh + Anne Baynham + Garth O'Brien Antique

Tatjana Panyoczki + Garth O'Brien Antique

Rachel Bell + Tatjana Panyoczki + Garth O'Brien Antique

Broach of the Month Club 2010 - Masterworks ThinkSpace

1. Wearer Jo Mears takes Ross Malcom's 'In the Pink' on a Kombi tour of the South Island

2. 2010 Broach of the Month Club brooches

3. Photos of the 2010 launch party by Rebecca Robinson

4. Wearer responses:  Bronwyn Cornish brooch, Jenny Robertson tapestry book, Garth O'Brien antique brooch

5. Wearer journals and photos

6.  Video of wearer interviews 

The National enters blogland

The National State of Emergency Blog is up and running.  
Go visit here
There will also be pop-up shows happening in Christchurch.

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