Atmosphere

Melissa Dobson walking througth the crowd wearing tassled wool cape and fitted jacket, styling: Hannah McGrath
mozart shirt and silk pleat skirt worn by Bec Jones at Atmosphere launch, styled by Hannah McGrath
Atmosphere dress Atmosphere dress in front of wall piece in Victoria hall, Fremantle

Atmosphere, Victoria Hall, High St, Fremantle Sept 11th -16th 2010
I was invited to be a part of an exhibition of Fremantle collective designers by Hannah McGrath called 'atmosphere' and chose to take advantage of the 7m high ceilings in Victoria hall by producing a backdrop wall piece and a sculpted dress suspended from a hoop.
The wall piece is actually all the pattern pieces of various sculpted garments including the dress featured, sandwiched between 2 layers of silk organza. My idea was to somehow deconstruct or demystify the process of making such a sculpted piece of clothing by using the patterns as the exhibit. I felt the dress itself needed to be made using a calico- like cloth that would demostrate the purity of the idea and then proceeded to hang it using many threads of line so that it felt held in space.
Other designers in the show were
Ashe:Batchelor:Chinky wooster:Cocoon textiles:Kartique:Leah Tarlo:Loop:Love in tokyo:She seldom blushes: Totomoto