A wearable art and costume commission for Dundee Design Festival, exploring colour, movement, function and delightful absurdity.
The series brought together my ongoing interest in modular design, uniforms, material problem-solving and costume as a graphic system for the body. Each piece was built around its own imagined purpose, from DAZZLE SUIT, designed as camouflage in plain sight, to ALPINA, crafted to communicate with precision and style on any snowy mountain top.
The costumes were brought to life by local dancers, who moved through the festival space and activated the weird and wonderful components of each piece. This is where costume becomes especially exciting to me: it is not fixed, flat or polite. It has a body inside it. It shifts, performs, restricts, reveals and misbehaves.
The project sits within my wider Rules of Play practice, using simple systems, repeated forms, bold fastenings and practical limitations to create work that moves between sculpture, uniform, performance and graphic design.
