Te Ao Hurihuri: Ever Changing World

Te Ao Hurihuri: Ever Changing World

250 years on from James Cook’s historic voyage from England to New Zealand, two cutting edge jewellery collectives embark upon their own journeys.  Handshake (NZ) and Dialogue Collective (UK) navigate around the impact of colonialism to create a bejewelled voyage like no other...   

Te Ao Hurihuri: Ever Changing World showcases work by twenty-two artists who specialise in using jewellery to communicate ideas. The work on display shows a diversity of materials, techniques and scale. Cultural backgrounds and migrated ancestry influence the work that each artist makes on their own voyage. An openness to new ideas provides a rich backdrop for tackling current issues in ways that are experimental and striking. Handshake (HS) and Dialogue collective (DC) wrestle with topics that range from identity to isolation and from heritage to hedonism. 

This, the second collaboration between HS and DC, is an inspiring example of the cultivation of international relationships. Both collectives are renowned for their support and mentoring of jewellery artists, as well as their inventive exhibition ideas. This 2018 partnership Te Ao Hurihuri : Ever Changing World is just as ambitious.

In their previous project ‘It will all come out in the wash’ HS and DC considered their similarities and differences.  Using the analogy of a communal washing line, objects were hung out to air. Everything was on view. Finally face-to-face the neighbours came together to produce work that shared their daily lives. Once again ideas collide to produce an interactive, engaging and intriguing show.  Te Ao Hurihuri: Ever changing world opens with a celebration of cross-cultural relations including a traditional Maori ceremony and guest speaker, renowned art historian Liesbeth Den Besten, on Tuesday 23rd October.

Exhibition Events

Tuesday 23 October 2018

18.00 – 21.00

Opening Event with Maori Ceremony plus guest speaker Liesbeth Den Besten.

Wednesday 24 October 2018

17.00 – 19.00

Guest speakers followed by informal discussion in a welcoming pub.

Thursday 25 October 2018

Film installation by students from K2 Academy. 

Saturday 27 October 2018

18.00 – 21.00

Closing event with punk jewellery band Scrotum Clamp. 

Participants

HANDSHAKE Becky Bliss, Nadene Carr, Sharon Fitness, Jen Laracy, Kelly McDonald, Neke Moa, Sarah Read, Caroline Thomas, Sarah WalkerHolt, Rebecca Yeats, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna Featuring: Sandy Connon Dialogue Collective Petra Bishai, Isabelle Busnel, Jo Garner, Velvet Hart, Victoria King, Timothy Information Limited, Maarit Liukkonen, Annelise Pfeiffer, Maud Traon, Sorcha Wharf, Anet Wrobel

Venue

The Crypt
Dukes Road
Entrance off Euston Road 
London
NW1 2BA 

Exhibition Run

Show runs 23 – 27 October 2018 

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