FASHION SHOW is the first solo show of emerging artist Kate Dunn, showcasing their experimental wearable artworks pushing the limits of clothing and materiality.
Blurring the line between high and low culture, Dunn employs high fashion aesthetics in their experimentation with industrial foams, cardboards, and recycled materials in their ongoing exploration of the bold, brash and the ridiculous. While humorous and explorative in nature, Dunn contextualises their works in the context of global capitalism, using recycled materials as a means of highlighting the throwaway culture of the fashion industry. The works also constitute a celebration of recycled materials as having inherent aesthetic value, and not merely utilitarian purposes.
These experimental ‘costumes’ engage in discourses surrounding mass culture, high fashion and social class, exploring the extent to which famous brands serve as ‘class signifiers’ in contemporary Australian society, and how these brands maybe used as a means of performatively conveying identity.
Kate Dunn is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores contemporary Australian politics, identity and popular culture through sculpture, diorama and costume making. Having lived in both suburban Queensland and Sydney city, Dunn is interested in intersections between place and memory, and environmental influences on identity.
Blurring the line between high and low culture, Dunn employs high fashion aesthetics in their experimentation with industrial foams, cardboards, and recycled materials in their ongoing exploration of the bold, brash and the ridiculous. While humorous and explorative in nature, Dunn contextualises their works in the context of global capitalism, using recycled materials as a means of highlighting the throwaway culture of the fashion industry. The works also constitute a celebration of recycled materials as having inherent aesthetic value, and not merely utilitarian purposes.
These experimental ‘costumes’ engage in discourses surrounding mass culture, high fashion and social class, exploring the extent to which famous brands serve as ‘class signifiers’ in contemporary Australian society, and how these brands maybe used as a means of performatively conveying identity.
Kate Dunn is a Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores contemporary Australian politics, identity and popular culture through sculpture, diorama and costume making. Having lived in both suburban Queensland and Sydney city, Dunn is interested in intersections between place and memory, and environmental influences on identity.
