Exhibitions / Dead Men's Clothes
05.03.2007 to 24.03.2007
Dead Men’s Clothes is a life-affirming exhibition that explores themes around death remembrance and biography.
Constructed from the collected remnants of forgotten lives: intimate items of apparel and everyday objects are reworked and combined to express the ephemeral nature of life and the fragmentary nature of memory.
Old white business shirts are transformed into funeral wreaths and personal and well-worn articles of clothing become the ‘canvas’ on which collections of small objects/images and fragments of embroidered text are built up to trace imagined lives that have echoes in our own.
Eternity 2007
Second hand wool blanket, woolen dressing gown, dressing gown cord, timber.
L: 180cm H: 70cm D:5cm
Preserves (detail) 2007
Second hand preserving jars, photographic transparensies
Various
R.I.P. 2007
Second hand business shirts, cardboard, found wooden frame, found shoes,embroidery,
Various
Sleeping 2007
Second hand blanket, dressing gown and hotwater bottle, recylcled timber.
L:165cm W:70cm
Gone 2007
Kraft paper, black paint, chalk, found frame and underpants.
L:180cm x W:115cm