A selection of my work will be exhibited in the upcoming EX[IE]PERIMENTAL COLLECTIVE Exhibition, part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program. Curated by the wonderfully talented Christina Exie who is also an RMIT graduate, the exhibition will be open to public from 22/03/2010 to 28/03/2010 at Melbourne City's Von Haus. So come by on the opening night, have a drink and enjoy the art and fashion. :)
Program Synopsis written by H. Pappas
Ex[ie]perimental Collective is an exhibition that unites five of Melbourne’s newest conceptual fashion designers and their practices. The focus of this collective is to emphasize the importance of clothing and its potential for innovation through research and process. Emma Boseley, Katia Di Crescenzo, Christina Exie, Kara Liu and Helen Pappas met through their studies at RMIT’s Bachelor of Design in Fashion. Yet all have developed their own dynamic styles as designers, tailors, jewelers and collagist, making this exhibition a dynamic fusion of techniques and construction as well as individual concepts. Each of the works in the Ex[ie]perimental Collective showcases an array of methodologies and textural elements. By exhibiting segments throughout the design process, this exhibition gives an insight into these designers’ initial questions as well as the final artifact. Three-dimensional patternmaking, sculptural leather molding, collage, and jewelry techniques, creates a poetically combined display intriguing the viewer for further curiosity. As a young designer collective, this is their initiation into the Melbourne Design scene, and a contribution to the diversity of Australian and Melbournian talent.
