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Exhibited alongside a black velvet dress bearing a large composition of scrap metals, primarily broken fashion hardware, applied using traditional embellishment techniques in non-hierarchical assemblages, the work transforms post-consumer fashion waste. Treated as image and textile sculpture, it disrupts garment intentions of wear, foregrounding gleaned materials over newly produced ones. </p><p dir="ltr">SIGNIFICANCE The practice-research includes an exhibition and public lecture at SydneySydney Gallery, Sydney, presenting an exhibition program featuring international and Australian artists, with a focus on historical and contemporary practices including Shelley Lasica and John Nixon.

The project is selected for presentation at the UTS Symposium Opening up the fashion archive, Melbourne Art Fair and Contemporary Art Library inclusion via Contemporary Art Daily. Melbourne Art Fair’s independently curated program emphasises high-quality, conceptually strong proposals, underscoring the project’s recognition within contemporary art discourse.</p>