The decorative is political. Craft is powerful. We host workshops, curate exhibitions and facilitate discussions on the topics of decorative art. We trace the lineage of modernist making legacies to the contemporary and bring to light stories of marginalised makers.
RECENT JOURNAL POSTS
Issue Thirteen: Wearable Art
Perhaps more so than any other art form, wearable art is the place where the decorative becomes most dissident. Costume […]
Stitching over history, memory and collective joy – Stephanie Francis-Shanahan’s living sculptures
A blazer and a skirt flutter in the wind at Pett Level beach in Hastings. On it are pictures of […]
Monster Sweaters: in conversation with Ýrúrarí
Ýrúrarí’s mostly knit-based practice see fragments of humour, body movements and the everyday meet in wool based, wearable objects.
‘Like an Empress from Another Planet’: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s couture d’ordures
The iconoclastic and ultra-provocative costumes of the avant-garde visual artist, electrifying poet, model performer, and dramatically titled Baroness Elsa von […]
Breaking the Fall, Emily Beaney
BREAKING THE FALL Breaking the Fall is a collaboration with my mother, Cherrie Beaney. It is an exploration of our […]
Ben Caro on performative masculinity, activating objects, and excavating history
Artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie in conversation with artist Ben Caro.
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