Dressing Up

We’re excited to present our exhibition, Dressing Up, featuring the work of Keziah Mornin, Ann-Marie Williamson, Phoebe Howard, Freyja Lee, Mae Nicolaou, Molly Lester and Sophie-Nicole Dodds.

To dress is to claim space. Whether through the soft fold of a childhood blanket or the rigid silk of a queen’s slipper, we use the body as a canvas for our ambitions, our politics, and our power. Dressing Up investigates the act of adornment as both a public performance and a private necessity. In an era where our identities are increasingly dematerialised through digital reproduction, this exhibition asserts the importance of the analogue, the tactile, and the embodied.

Through fabric, paper, clay, and text, these seven artists explore how we use the "surface", and the ceremony of dress, to negotiate the depths of history, psychology, and the self. The works examine the idea of "uniform" in its most expansive sense - as armor for status, a site of vulnerability, a map of lived experiences, and a portal to the mythological. By interrogating what we wear and what we leave behind, the exhibition asks us to consider the power of clothing to construct, and occasionally unmask, the person underneath.