How you make it
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Title
How you make it
Collective title
A Craft Victoria and NETS Victoria touring exhibition.
Venues
Wangaratta Art Gallery. (2009 – 29 March 2009)
Mildura Arts Centre (11 June 2009 – 15 July 2009)
Date
(2009)
Summary
Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Fashion
Abstract
How You Make It is an exhibition that takes the making process itself as a conceptual starting point. Specifically, it looks at the approach of the designer towards garment construction as an idea while investigating the evolution of artisan fashion design practices – revealing how traditional highly-crafted tailoring techniques continue to form contemporary clothing in often radically new ways.
How You Make It features around 25 newly-created and existing works by Anthea van Kopplen, Ess. Laboratory (Hoshika Oshimi and Tatsuyoshi Kawabata), FORMALLYKNOWNAS (Toby Whittington), MATERIALBYPRODUCT (Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald), Paula Dunlop, Project (Kara Baker and Shelley Lasica), Simon Cooper, and S!X (Denise Sprynskyj and Peter Boyd).
Play and experimentation are critical to each designers’ practice. Here, design signifies both a product as well as a creative process and a structured plan. How You Make It examines practice-based research where cutting, marking, joining, and sizing – the cornerstones of garment production – are used to create a language from which design philosophies grow. In the finished garments we see the tangible results of considered choices about where, when and how to cut fabric. Often existing garments have been deconstructed, reconfigured and reworked using fine tailoring techniques and self-established design schemes. These systems are used to explore and create new garment forms and new ways of wearing clothes.
[Gallery media, 2009]
Last Updated
04 Jul 2012