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2nd Jewellery Triennial at Waikato Museum, Hamilton

The second Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial, He momo, nā te whānau—it’s a family trait, travelled to Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery, Hamilton 20th March 2026 - 19th July 202610am - 5pm In this exhibition, artists from across Aotearoa explore jewellery as a...
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Unmapping & Remarking exhibition

Unmapping & Remarking In response to the 25th Sydney Biennial’s theme Rememory, nine New Zealand artists explore how jewellery can locate us, displace us, or carry traces of the personal, ancestral, and collective. It reflects on how memory is held, mapped, or...
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Aotearoa Exchange

Aotearoa Exchange group performed a unique presentation that opened SCHMUCKmuenchen 2026 at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, on Friday, 6 March. The project brought together wearable works by twenty Handshake Project alumni. Six performers moved through the space,...
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Looping Mirrors

Perception is never a straight line.It bends, returns, loops back on itself.And when multiple loops converge, their complexity resolves before we understand it. Value is not an intrinsic property.It’s a cognitive and cultural process shaped by emotion, narrative,...
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