Handshake4 Process 9 – 29 march
at Toi Pōneke Gallery brought together original works by the twelve HS4 jewellers who are currently half-way through their two-year mentorship programme. A unique exhibition design by artist Gabby O'Connor extends the idea of process by including works in progress alongside the jewellers' finished pieces. The gallery becomes a space for experimentation, offering insights into the thoughts and material processes of some of New Zealand's most exciting jewellery artists.


​Echo Echo

the creative process for me is not linear, there is always quite a bit of to and fro a jostle of materials and ideas to reach resolve. Some of the best jewellery stays on my workbench for months unfinished, a bit feral… scrappy, full of potential and frustratingly hard to tame 
focus is on materiality and a provincial vernacular.. themes around the land and resource and the feminine mingle within my work.

Echo Echo....silencing the female was once an essential part of growing up as a man – though shouting at a woman was only one way of achieving it. In Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Io is turned by Jupiter into a cow, and Echo’s voice reduced to a mere instrument for repeating the words of others
​​Mary Beard, women and power.a manifesto