handshakejewellers — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:03:55 +0000

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.

Objectspace Handshake catalog

handshakejewellers — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:52:32 +0000

To view the wonderful catalog that Objectspace produced with the Handshake show, click this link:

HANDSHAKE OS folder with statements

handshakejewellers — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:13:20 +0000

HANDSHAKE at Objectspace, Auckland, NZ

handshakejewellers — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:58:04 +0000

The final exhibition of the 3 year HANDSHAKE project is a collaboration between the Handshake mentee and their mentor, at Objectspace 15 June 2013 – 20 July 2013.

Each artist pair made-up their own rules and many did not play it save .

See how they all shook it up…….

Handshake on Arts on Sunday RadioNZ

kristindagostino — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:23:43 +0000

Have a listen here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/audio/2557978/the-handshake-project

Handshake at Schmuck

kristindagostino — Sat, 04 May 2013 06:37:29 +0000

The Handshake show at the 2013 Handwerksmesse was a fantastic success. We were very privileged to have ten Mentees, seven Mentors and Handshake organisers Peter and Hilda in Munich this March and a great time was had by all. Thanks so much to Creative New Zealand and all our supporters in the Handshake Raffle and Pledge Me campaigns for helping us to get there. We really appreciate it!

Click to view slideshow.

Handwerk & Design:

06 – 12 March – exhibition of the Handshake project – Halle B1, stand 939

The Very Official Handshake Raffle Draw with Alan Preston and The Geeks

handshakejewellers — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:10:34 +0000

Click to view slideshow.

Thank you so much to all our supporters who bought a raffle ticket. The raffle draw was conducted by Super New Zealand Jeweller Alan Preston, closely supervised by The Geeks and Sharon & Joey’s cat Scooter. After a flurry of checking and cross checking ticket numbers, the organising crew was gathered and the raffle was finally ready.

Sharon Fitness dutifully presented the pot holding the names of the makers and the shoe box held the lucky ticket numbers. We had all done the math and were counting on our 1 in 97.5 chance per ticket of winning a wonderful prize!

Alan had the room in stitches when he took the roll of raffle picker to a new level of performance art. Never were two prizes drawn in the same manner. There was drama, spinning and suspenseful pauses – Alan concealed the picks from the audience until we squirmed with anticipation and shouted for more!!!

Congratulations to all our winners!

Ticket Number/Handshaker Prize in the order they were chosen:

0007/Kristin, 1910/Gillian, 1843/Lynsay (Right), 0970/Jhana, 0888/Jessica, 1366/Karl, 0922/Becky, 0952/Neke, 1551/Sharon, 0308/Lynsay (Left), 0260/Debbie, 1401/Peter, 1334/Sarah, 1482/Nadene

Handshake Raffle

kristindagostino — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:33:24 +0000

The handshake raffle kicks off today.

Fourteen wonderful jewelleries are up for grabs at only NZ$5 per ticket. Email handshakejewellery(at)gmail.com to get your ticket now. We can accept paypal, bank transfer and old fashioned cash payments.

We are raising funds to take this show on the road to Schmuck and create a fabulous publication. Thank you for supporting this worthy cause with full enthusiasm!

Handshake @ The National

kristindagostino — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:37:36 +0000

Click to view slideshow.

Handshake @ The National, Christchurch

kristindagostino — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:28:57 +0000

Join us on 24 August @ The National in Christchurch