Becky Bliss

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Becky Bliss graduated from Whitireia New Zealand in 2010.

Her current work looks at social issues such as global warming, fair pay and equal employment opportunities. She has previously looked at traces of the past using subtle layering to evoke memories of what has been;  before. More recently the Penumbra series looked at spaces created around the shadows of simple shapes.

She was a participant in Handshake 1, 3, and 5 as well as HandShake alumni exhibitions, in the New Zealand/German Wunderrüma exhibition, and an exhibitor in Schmuck 2020 in Munich and Valencia, and Schmuck 2015 in Munich and Prague.

Education

  • Bachelor of Applied Arts, Whitireia New Zealand 2010
  • Diploma of Visual Communications, Wellington Polytechnic 1976

Professional development

  • Handshake mentoring project, mentee: Mentor Fabrizio Tridenti, Italy 2011-2013
  • Peter Bauhuis Workshop, Auckland 2015
  • Benjamin Lignel Workshop, Wellington 2015
  • David Clark workshop, Auckland 2015
  • Hilde de Decker masterclass (5 days), Wellington 2016

Selected exhibitions

2020

  • Schmuck, Munich
  • Frame Galleries, Schmuck not Schmuck, The National, Christchurch
  • Schmuck, Valencia

2019

  • AVID Gallery, joint show with Peter Deckers
  • Handshake 5, CODA, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
  • Handshake 5, Te Uru

2018

  • Handshake, ATTA Gallery, Thailand
  • Handshake, Stanley Street
  • Masterworks, Bulb installation, Paradoxical Pegs
  • Masterworks Empowering Women – 125 Years of Women’s Suffrage, Auckland

2017

  • Handshake 3, Frame Galleries, Handwerksmesse, Munich
  • Handshake/Dialogue Collective collaboration, Lot 62 Gallery, Munich
  • The Button Show, Masterworks, Auckland
  • The Dowse, Handshake 3 exhibition, Wellington
  • Occupy Crossley Street 2, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia
  • Beijing International Contemporary Jewellery exhibition

2016

  • Golden Section, Park(ing) Day installation with Occupation: Artist, Wellington NZ
  • Specials, Handshake alumni: Einsaulensaal, Munich, Germany
  • Avid solo show, Found
  • Objectspace, Auckland,  show–sell–shift exhibition
  • Objectspace Handshake 3 group collaboration exhibition
  • Gallery Platina, Stockholm, Handshake 3 group exhibition

Publications

  • Wunderruma 2014
  • Handshake: 12 contemporary jewellers connect with their heroes, 2014
  • Schmuck Catalogue 2015
  • SPANpoints, Handshake 3, 2016
  • Contemporary Jewellery in Context, a Handshake blueprint, 2017
  • Schmuck Catalogue 2020

Awards

  • Masterworks Award for jewellery graduate (2010)
  • Winthrop University Guild of Emerging Metalsmiths, USA. Sticks and Stones Award (2010)

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