Poly Boreland

 

Polly Boreland is an award winning Australian photographer, much sought after for her portraits and styling, used lycra and tights to create this playful and very disturbing series called 'smudge'.
What I find interesting about this work is its play, its experimentation and creativity and the way Polly contorts the identity of her subjects through stretching the fabric capsule of the body leotard, stuffing it or painting onto it. It is this experimentation that can lead to new ways of looking at fabric, at silhouette and fundamentally at ideas of identity and how we express them.

Lucy McRae on TED

Lucy McRae has produced some amazingly challenging work, contorting and redesigning body silhouettes using tights and balloons, amongst many other mechanisms of 'body architecture'. Here is a brief talk by Lucy on TED.

Jacqueline Bradley II

Picnic dress by Jacqueline Bradley , again this Australian artist/designer has approached fashion for a solution to an event and this twin dress is her multi functional answer to the problem of the picnic blanket.

Jacqueline Bradley

Jacqueline Bradley looks at clothing in a multi functional way, this is her boat dress.

Vee Speers II

Vee Speers's 'The Birthday Party'

Vee Speers I

These images are from a series called Bloom. They are of hand tinted photographs from Australian artist and photographer Vee Speers. Thank you four leafed clover finder.

John Brooks

Interesting upcycling of denim by John Brooks. John runs a small independent label 'Looming' making textiles for fashion and homewear.

"I enjoy the process of hand weaving and like the idea of carefully made textile products which reject the notion of fast fashion." John Brooks

Hanna Hoyne

Above: Lotus Heartmantra Protective Suit.Above: Passion Imunity Suit, Below: Emotion Ocean Protection Suit

Two installation pieces from the 'Protectornauts Series' by Australian artist Hanna Hoyne exploring the theme of protective clothing. These astronaut like suits were created using Asian ceremonial papers, they are made to protect the psyche, heart and soul.

Kat Mcleod

Introducing the illustration of Melbourne artist Kat Mcleod, which manages to combine a crisp line and accuracy, with collaged rubbish, papers and textiles for passion and style. Thanks charismagic.

Sebastian Sister/Eternal Safari

Sebastian Sister and Eternal Safari is a collaborative fashion label for two graduates Gemma Jameson and Francesca Altenburg of Canberra Institute of Technology.

However instead of forming one fashion label together they have retained their autonomous fashion labels but are benefiting from sharing resources, inspiration, ideas and fabric choices as well as mutual support and encouragement.

Dawn Tan

After a week of eating and studying sweets for fashion design, I thought you might appreciate the work of Melbourne based textile artist, Dawn Tan and her 'soft friend's project' a series of sculptures based on food. Thanks

Paul Villinski

These works are from an amazing series created from lost gloves by Australian artist Paul Villinski in New York.

"They have qualities we fear coming to know: carelessly left behind, forgotten or discarded, weathered, damaged, exhausted and worn through, run over by life, homeless. Lost and found. so i bring them into the studio and into pieces and give them homes, with the others . . . they get jobs too . . ."

"The gloves are collected from the streets daily. The pieces are obsessively handmade. Entwined. Hand stitched. They are about handwork and restoration and connectedness. Once they lie melancholic, now they are hopeful." Paul Villinski

Thanks

Lucy McRae

I was so excited to find the work of Australian, artist and designer Lucy McRae today.
Lucy's work is visually shocking and striking. Using low tech and high tech methods, Lucy's work straddles the genre of fashion, costume, art and technology. Lucy trained as both a classical ballerina and an architect, now she reinvents the skin and reshapes and interprets the body silhouette, her work is very inspiring and thought provoking. Just goes to show you never know where your path will lead you.