Handshake is a mentoring project involving emerging jewellers from New Zealand matched with their chosen idols/mentors from across the globe. The project began in February 2011, and is ongoing until 2013, with exhibitions in NZ and beyond along the way. This site has the blogs from all the mentees, background information  and exhibition dates . Please check back regularly to see what the mentees are up to and how their relationships are going.

Now Showing  at Masterworks from 1 – 18 December

Handshake is the brainchild of contemporary jeweller Peter Deckers who, at the beginning of 2011, brought together 12 graduate jewellers with the artists that most inspire them for an innovative mentorship program. The 12 ‘apprentices’ teamed up with their jeweller icons, exchanging images and ideas through the Handshake website. The collaboration has resulted in a series of local and internationally based exhibitions, this being the first to come to Auckland. Visitors will experience excitingly fresh and provocative new work by Debbie Adamson, Becky Bliss, Nadene Carr, Kristin D’Agostino, Gillian Deery, Sharon Fitness, Sam Kelly, Jhana Millers, Neke Moa, Lynsay Raine, Sarah Read, and Jessica Winchcombe.

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Karl Fritsch for Neke Moa,

Lucy Sarneel for Nadene Carr,

Iris Eichenberg for Sarah Read,

Warwick Freeman for Jessica Winchcombe,

Fabrizio Tridenti for Becky Bliss,

Andrea Wagner for Lynsay Raine,

Hanna Hedman for Debbie Adamson,

Estela Sàez Vilanova for Gillian Deery,

Judy Darragh for Kristin D’Agostino,

Suska Mackert for Jhana Millers,

Lisa Walker for Sharon Fitness,

Rian de Jong for Sam Kelly