Fashion Fix

With excitement growing over next month’s fashion week, especially given the number of esteemed international guests, including the effervescent Susie Bubble and street blogging cohort Tommy Ton, we thought we would remind you of some inspiring fashion exhibitions happening around the country. We’ve mentioned Brisbane’s coup in hosting the Stephen Jones retrospective, and the National Gallery of Victoria is also host to an interesting sartorial spectacle. Drape features fashion, photography and other visual mediums to explore the relationship between the manipulation of fabric on the body. Tracing an historical line from Cristobal Balenciaga to present-day modernist designers like Hussein Chalayan, the exhibition focuses on the practice of drape while extending the boundaries of fashion.

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Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The Lovely Lamija

We're taking our readers on a cross-country fashion trip this week. There are a lot of designers whose respective winter collections still haven't sought our praise on this blog and we must make mention before the frenzy that becomes Australian Fashion Week. Just over a month away, but you know that proverbial about flying. First destination: Stockholm and a fresh name, and aesthetic, for you to remember. Lamija Suljevic.

Posted in Exhibition, Fashion by Canvas
Monday, March 29th, 2010

Jesus Help Me Find My Proper Place

Don’t worry, we’re not turning to Christ, it’s just the title to Lucas Price’s solo show at Black Rat Press. The title’s appropriated from a Velvet Underground track and has been reinterpreted by Price as a direct reference to his past (which includes homelessness, drug addiction and jail time). Speaking on street art is quite foreign to us but his politically-loaded satire and social commentary is thought provoking, even to the amateur voyeur. This exhibition is a series of installations, in collaboration with Sweet Toof who seems to be known as the ‘dentist to the streets’. On show between October and November.

Posted in Artist, Exhibition by Canvas Magazine
Friday, September 25th, 2009

When You’re a Boy

Super stylist Simon Foxton, a relative unknown in the industry if you don’t subscribe to i-D, is the first to be profiled in a series dedicated to male image-makers in the mens fashion industry. The Photographers Gallery will host Simon’s work, the bulk coming from his twenty-odd year tenure at i-D. What we love about Simon’s work with menswear is his ability to push boundaries and break rules, mixing classic menswear and sportswear in an offbeat, unexpected way that just…works.   

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Monday, June 29th, 2009

Freakscape

B Store presents Freakscape, an installation exhibition by illustrator Philip Smiley.  While he is more well known for detailed Victorian etchings and toiles, Freakscape draws inspiration from Smiley’s rural upbringing in Virginia.  This exhibition shows the versatility of Smiley and incorporates a variety of mixed media, from sculpture and found object to a more delicate form of illustration.

Posted in Exhibition, Illustration by Canvas Magazine
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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The Infinite Shape of Rainbows

Beci Orpin, kooky creator of Princess Tina and Tiny Mammoth, brings her folk narratives and nostalgia to another solo exhibition. The Infinite Shape of Rainbows, on show at Lamington Drive, will feature new prints, collages, and painted wooden dolls in that kind of whimsy and dreamscape style we’ve come to expect from a Beci Orpin idea.

Posted in Artist, Design, Exhibition by Canvas
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

A Coup For Brisbane

Norman Rosenthal, former chief director of the Royal Academy of Arts, once commented that a fashion exhibition would be staged over his "dead body".

Posted in Exhibition, Fashion, Millinery by Catherine McPhee
Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Dustin Yellin

Dustin Yellin's works are a unique process of painting 3D forms in resin.

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Monday, July 6th, 2009

I Used To Skate Once

The I Used To Skate Once exhibition, presented by The Outpost, surfaced in Brisbane nearly five years ago. An annual event, it brings together a lineup of local and international artists, and musicians. For me, this year’s biggest drawcard is Jonathan Zawada. We recently waxed lyrical about his side project Taste Fun! and now he’s turned his pen to a skateboard deck.  No mean feat to be our favourite, considering he’s joined by French and Claudio Kirac. I think what makes this exhibition so successful is the personal connection The Outpost has with each artist involved. The list of collaborators literally reads like a personal address book, with everyone involved either friends, customers or people working in the fashion and design industry. Plus the art is pretty cool. 

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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Take A Look At Me Now

Take a Look at Me Now, a contemporary art exhibition, features 15 artists, who bring to Norwich some of the most exciting work being made in Poland today.  No single theme unites the exhibition, but an interest in architecture as a political and social record, the inheritance of the 20th-century avant-garde, an exploration of private passions, and a playful, performative approach provide some common ground between the works on show.

Posted in Exhibition by Canvas Magazine
Monday, June 1st, 2009