2021
"CRITICALLY ENDANGERED"
Photography : Lucy Duncan
Models : Yvette Whatman, Piper Jones & Francesca Di Paolo
08.10.21
Critically Endangered is a fashion-based project which endeavours to raise awareness of endangered Australian birds. Centred around three endangered species of Australian birds, the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Orange-bellied Parrot, and Helmeted honeyeater, the pieces aim to bring attention to their looming extinction through an art- based fashion installation to provoke a sense of urgency to the cause.
Approaching the collection through a personal anecdotal perspective, each species is paid homage to through minimalistic and elegant designs. The incorporation of pleats and layering in conjunction with elaborate colours personalised to each species, is used to reflect each bird’s distinct form and feathers. To further the individuality, intricate signifiers are added to each dress to reference each bird without creating excessively performative pieces.
My individual practice revolves around garments that are considered ‘minimalistic simplicity’ in nature but embed hidden messages of awareness in subtle ways. These are not always seen by the viewer immediately, but once realised, incite conversation about the greater issue at hand. The three pieces in this collection have been created to recognise the dangers that human lifestyles pose on Australia’s bird population. Ultimately, raising awareness to the greater public by confronting them with fashion through a minimal artistic lens.
"CONCEPTUAL DEFORMITY"
Photography : Imogen Briggs
Models : Jessica Lackner & Emma Fisher
13.06.2021
An anecdotal perspective of skin deformity, which considers the manipulation of material as a second skin concept. This not necessary taking form as skin but informing the direction of skin imperfections, deformity, and insecurities. Through bodily emotions and lived experiences these pieces are created to enlighten an audience of textures that skin take form of. The
minimalism of silhouettes establishes the surrounding of the body embellished with ‘skin’ to reveal an understanding of skin abnormality suffered by different people. With aims to create awareness and make one proud of what they look like.
2020
"SECOND SKIN"
Imogen Briggs
partnered Project
15.11.2020
I decided to focus on a personal question that both addresses modern day healthcare issues and the current restrictions of the world’s pandemic. Creating the set of masks, produced with a new level of thinking, to develop a product that accommodates for more people with todays changing society. As more and more allergies become known, emerging this the publics disapproval when not wearing mask is decreased whilst also creating something for those who don’t feel safe without a mask on. By doing this the development of rapidly changing healthcare, can provide for a larger range audience.
While also addressing this in a reflective sense creating a physical fashion outcome reflecting back onto allergies and how they are experienced. Thus, the outfit provides an emotive example of meaningful garments that convey information researched and understood about the social obstacle of being different and accepting the way our bodies react to certain things. Hence, a garment with a narrative as well as an innovative medical approach. This can create a both educational and creative understanding.
Creating these outcomes are able to produce a non-judgmental and educational background to assisting the increase of a rapid changing environment in both the medical and fashion industry.
"DISCONNECTED INTIMACY"
Photography : Imogen Briggs
Models : Rhaine Morgan-mcgregor & Yvette whatman
12.10.2020
'Disconnected Intimacy' aims to follow the narrative of the soft elegances of touching through photographs that do not share identity but isolate parts of the body in close cropped imagery.
Communicating how the touch of a loved one can invite the audience to witness the emotive connection between two loved ones during the current pandemic, and their need and desire for an intimate relationship in a time characterised by separation and distance.
This is achieved through examining how portraits and images can display intimacy. I aimed to create this series of work focusing on developing how technical and visual element come together and works as one, looking at the placement of bodies, arms and hands while also depicting which photographs would be used and their placement on this webpage.
This includes developing certain elements of the exposure to make the light stand out against the main objects of the images in a great depth of field. Thinking about the composition of the rule of thirds to communicate the overall meaning of the body of work.
Thus, aspiring to convey narrative behind the emotion of losing and having touch.
"LEPIDOPTERA"
imogen briggs
Fashion, Object, Space
22.10.2020
The McCraith ‘Butterfly House’. Built in 1955, on the Mornington Peninsula. located 1-3 Atunga Terracee, Dromana 3936. Most commonly known as the ‘Butterfly House’, its structural features reflect a triangular framing or butterfly like shape. The house is a significant example of modernism in Victoria. The McCraith house was designed for ‘Ellen and Gerald McCraith...in the office of Mornington Peninsula architects David Chancellor and Rex Patrick’ (Heritage Council Vic, n.d). This house embodies the creative architectural response of post WW2 and the society on the Mornington Peninsula.
I chose to reflect and respond to this amazing piece of architecture in an experience that inhabits both a personal refection and a contemporary fashion experience. Through research and development to create my own virtual experience of the Butterfly house while in times of the pandemic and restriction. enhancing the abilities to communicate on an online platform with worldwide accessibility without movement.