Fashioning Self: Artworks from the Collection

Overview

Have you ever stopped to consider what you are wearing? A lot of the time we tend to just throw something on and walk out the door! But, if you stop to think about how your attire expresses your personality, it becomes apparent there exists a relationship between our outfit choices and our self-representation.

Fashioning Self: Artworks from the Collection is an exhibition conceived in response to this question. The exhibition, currently on show at the University of Queensland, demonstrates how bodies are fashioned through dress and adornment. The artworks encourage us to stop and think about how a hoodie or a pair of Louboutins can do everything from celebrating our cultural identities, to rebeling against national icons. All of the artworks focus on how fashion, costume and body marking form identity.

Exhibition curators, Kath Kerswell and Samantha Littley have put together a thoughtful collection. Works from both international and local artists, such as Ray Cook, Alexander McKenzie and Fiona Foley (just to name-drop a few), grace the walls of the Art Museum.

No longer will you get up in the morning and simply put on a pair of jeans – there is a lot more to it, identity-wise. Talk about taking the “Little Black Dress” to its theoretical roots!