Alexander McQueen: Alexander McQueen was a contemporary fashion designer, who made garments that were as much sculpture as they were clothing. I love how out there much of his work was, rendering it useless in everyday life, but so expressive if you stop running around life, and actually look at it.
The way the lines and fabric flows, and creates movement fascinates me, especially since this is a still piece, on manikins. It gives the whole piece a kind of ethereal look, which is something i'm aiming at for my piece when it is exhibited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McQueen
wiki info about him
http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/
Information on McQueen's exhibition "Savage Beauty"
Yinka Shonibare:
Shonibare uses fabric and costume to explore the ideas of cultural identity, colonialism and post colonialism.
Shonibare dyes and patterns the fabrics he uses himself, and creates stories out of his pieces, all set up on manikins like scenes from a play.
http://www.ofnotemagazine.org/2009/09/01/yinka-shonibare-the-art-of-victorian-dress/
comments on Shonibare's exhibition "The Art of Victorian Dress"
http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/home/
Shonibare's artist website
Julia Morison:
Morison is a New Zealand artist who plays with painting, sculpture and print, and does a fine job of it.
Her work tends towards surrealism, and in her 2011 exhibition in the Two Rooms gallery in auckland, her work was heavily influenced by the christchurch earthquake.
she used liquefaction silt in many of her pieces, including using it to paint with.
http://eyecontactsite.com/2011/11/morison-sculpture-in-auckland
This pieces appeals to me because of the way the dress extends down to the ground, and effectively becomes part of the ground, which grounds it in way. The piece hanging free in the air, and the grass bringing it back down to earth, but not in a bad way, more in a sensible way.
http://juliamorison.co.nz/
Morison's artist website
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