when: 06 - 22 October 2023 | | cost: Free | address: 13 Gurner St Paddington NSW 2021 Australia | website: http://barometer.net.au/ | tickets: http://barometer.net.au/
published: 02 Oct 2023, 5 min read
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What can be done with a shirt - any old shirt, a white shirt, a discarded, coloured or patterned; a large or small shirt; worn, torn or damaged shirt; plain, frilly or lightweight or heavy.
Whatever the shirt was to begin with, these artists have repurposed, transformed, manipulated or recreated a shirt, or a couple of shirts into a new piece, a functional object, recreating a new wearable shirt or predominantly, transforming a shirt into a unique artwork.
Artists have also brought their own interests to the project with concerns or references to sustainability, wellbeing, repurposing, making do and remaking to reimagining an outcome, creating a diverse range of new outcomes.
Artists: Vita Cochran, Michele Elliott, Liz Gemmell, Cecilia Heffer, Christina Newberry, Emma Peters, Barbara Rogers, Jane Theau, Liz Williamson and Melinda Young.
This event is part of the Sydney Craft Week Festival 6-15 October 2023.
SCW is an Australian Design Centre initiative. View the complete festival program.
Images: Jane Theau, White Collar, 2023. Photo: courtesy the artist. Christina Newberry, Pleats Play, 2023. Photo: P. Thomas. Michelle Elliot, The Lovers , 2018-23. Photo: Ian Hobbs. Barbara Rogers, Collected Shirts, 2023. Photo: courtesy the artist
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What can be done with a shirt - any old shirt, a white shirt, a discarded, coloured or patterned; a large or small shirt; worn, torn or damaged shirt; plain, frilly or lightweight or heavy.
Whatever the shirt was to begin with, these artists have repurposed, transformed, manipulated or recreated a shirt, or a couple of shirts into a new piece, a functional object, recreating a new wearable shirt or predominantly, transforming a shirt into a unique artwork.
Artists have also brought their own interests to the project with concerns or references to sustainability, wellbeing, repurposing, making do and remaking to reimagining an outcome, creating a diverse range of new outcomes.
Artists: Vita Cochran, Michele Elliott, Liz Gemmell, Cecilia Heffer, Christina Newberry, Emma Peters, Barbara Rogers, Jane Theau, Liz Williamson and Melinda Young.
This event is part of the Sydney Craft Week Festival 6-15 October 2023.
SCW is an Australian Design Centre initiative. View the complete festival program.
Images: Jane Theau, White Collar, 2023. Photo: courtesy the artist. Christina Newberry, Pleats Play, 2023. Photo: P. Thomas. Michelle Elliot, The Lovers , 2018-23. Photo: Ian Hobbs. Barbara Rogers, Collected Shirts, 2023. Photo: courtesy the artist
Go see Transform: shirts reimagined 2023.
Transform: shirts reimagined 2023 is on 06 - 22 October 2023. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Paddington. Call 02 9358 4968 for details. Visit their website at http://barometer.net.au/.
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