when: 01 - 09 October 2025 | venue: Festival Hub: Trades Hall | cost: Free | address: 54 Victoria St Carlton 3053
published: 28 Aug 2025, 5 min read
Creating works at the convergence of traditional practice and contemporary techniques, Off the Plantation aka Natisha Tabua transposes the lively, rhythmic brushstrokes of visual artists into grand couture creations. Their maximal dresses and draped forms point to a parallel between sewing and basket-weaving, contemporary and cultural knowledge. As they each use the same motions and repetitive techniques to craft a finished form.
Tabua is a skilled seamstress and visionary behind custom couture brand, Off the Plantation. She's steadily making a name for herself by creating gowns in collaboration with visual artists such as Ikunji and Dylan Charles - whose work has appeared on runways at Australian Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Week, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and in Vogue Magazine.
This slow fashion garment installation by Off the Plantation is inspired by Blak Sovereignty, in alignment with this year's Fringe Festival theme, Action Heroes.
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Creating works at the convergence of traditional practice and contemporary techniques, Off the Plantation aka Natisha Tabua transposes the lively, rhythmic brushstrokes of visual artists into grand couture creations. Their maximal dresses and draped forms point to a parallel between sewing and basket-weaving, contemporary and cultural knowledge. As they each use the same motions and repetitive techniques to craft a finished form.
Tabua is a skilled seamstress and visionary behind custom couture brand, Off the Plantation. She's steadily making a name for herself by creating gowns in collaboration with visual artists such as Ikunji and Dylan Charles - whose work has appeared on runways at Australian Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Week, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and in Vogue Magazine.
This slow fashion garment installation by Off the Plantation is inspired by Blak Sovereignty, in alignment with this year's Fringe Festival theme, Action Heroes.
Go see Blak Sovereignty 2025.
Blak Sovereignty 2025 is on 01 - 09 October 2025. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Carlton. Call 03-9660-9600 for details.
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