Fray: Exhibition Guide
1.Louie Hollander / The Beauty of Sadness, A Fashion Collection A/W (2023)
A personal concept inspired by an observation of overwhelming sadness exhibited in people. Each outfit represents keyelements from my body of work: CHAOS, COVERING UP THE SELF, POWER OF THE FACE. This outfit represents 1 of 3 from the collection.
Shirt: This garment represents ‘THE POWER OF THE FACE’ - A classic tailored shirt with an original print design sublimation printed on to 3 layers of mesh creating a distorted image.
100% Cotton polyester mesh. Unisex, 42” Chest
Skirt: This garment represents ‘CHAOS’ and ‘COVERING UP THE SELF’ - The cut and shape of the skirt developed to cover the lower half completely. The fabric allows for natural textural differences and frayed elements edges.
100% Cotton heavy raw denim. Unisex, waist variable adjustment, length 35”
Patchwork Jumper: This garment represents ‘CHAOS’ - A colour palette carefully selected for its somberness and boldness. Developed from up-cycled knitwear garments, overlocked together to create organic seam lines, and an asymmetric fit. Upcycled knitwear - wools, poly-cottons, poly-blends. Unisex, 42” Chest
@l.hollander_fashiondesign
2. Scarlett Pochet / Studies for a Mermaid’s Tail (2023)
Studies For a Mermaid's Tail explores the hybrid form of the mermaid, taking inspiration from medieval manuscripts/ancient imagery which depict mermaids as strangely beautiful goddesses or wicked and lustful creatures. Inspiration is also drawn from preserved 1800 French soldier/sailor tattoos and their connections to mermaids, who, ‘lured’ sailors to their deaths through voice and song.
The work re-imagines such tales, presenting a story whereby the mermaid consumed her sailor victims for strength. The tattoos of the unfortunate then fused into the visceral scales of the mermaids’ tail, presented by the discovered remains before us.
Latex, chain. 120 x 60cm
@scarlettrosep_
3. Ruby Jean Waterhouse / Calcify // Rebirth (2023)
Inspired by water and the minerals that lie within, Calcify // Rebirth explores a physical representation of the creeping past and every-day life uncertainty through adaptation of a household object. Much like an oyster’s creation of a pearl, new forms of self will not exist without a little irritation.
Second-hand wood cabinet, acetoxy silicone, saliva, acrylic varnish, glass beads, plastic beads, cyanotype on silk-blend fabric, projected stop-frame animation with sound 61 x 41cm, 36 x 26cm, 2 minutes
@rubyjeanart
4. Cat Young / P.8:23-27 ( )
Spray paint, domestic paint, charcoal, pastel, acrylic paint, ink
@nocanvascat
5. Cleo Milly Nelson / Brigantia Knit (2022)
Manually machine knitted using water soluble yarn, this piece has been semi dissolved, resulting in a shrinking and hardening- the stage prior to complete dissolution. The text imagines the goddess Brigantia, also the Celtic name for the North of England, as a personification of this land.
Screenprint on water soluble yarn 96 x 58cm
6. Martha Burgin
Drawings portraying the delicate dance between the past and the present that comes from holding onto childhood memories, the need to capture fleeting moments and the intriguing metamorphosis these recollections undergo as time weaves its tapestry.
a. My Pal with the Long Hair (2023)
Graphite on paper 594 x 841 mm
b. (left to right) Breaking the News (2023)
Graphite on paper 210 x 297 mm
In the Darkness (2023)
Graphite on paper 210 x 297 mm
Being Carried to Bed (2023)
Graphite on paper 210 x 297 mm
The Reunion (2023)
Graphite on paper 210 x 297 mm
Parting (2023)
Graphite on paper 210 x 297 mm
At the Bridge (2023)
Graphite on paper 210 x 297 mm
@stoplookingatmyshirt
@marthaburger
7. Conchobhar Bowyn / Jenny Pingles (not Penny Jingles) (2023)
Wool, cotton, recycled fabric, polyester, Ruby’s mirror, a chair that was already here
@nomorespacehelmetsforthecow
Nomorespacehelmetsforthecow.com
8. Alice Marshall / Surround/Stretch (2023)
Donated fabric, household paint, canvas threads, old stretched bar 20 x 20cm
Stretch/Surround (2023)
Donated fabric, household paint, canvas threads 80 x 20cm
@alicemarshallart
9. Ellie Harrison / Spaghetti Spine (2023)
Latex and wood 150 x 150 x 200cm
@elliehar.t