High Tea With Mrs Woo, 2022
Newcastle in-store installation
Commissioned by High Tea With Mrs Woo for the City of Newcastle’s Autumn Alive Festival, I collaborated with this slow fashion label to create an immersive upcycled paper installation for the front window of their store co-shared with Studio Melt.
It was a joy to be approached by iconic Newcastle slow fashion label High Tea With Mrs Woo with an invitation to create a sculptural paper installation for their beautiful co-shared store with Studio Melt. They wanted to activate their window space with art for the City of Newcastle’s month-long Autumn Alive festival, which offered a program of cultural events, live music, and place activation initiatives.
In keeping with the aesthetic and ethos of the label, which creates eloquent one-off pieces, “meaningful clothing for every day, honouring lifecycles and the passage of time.”
I decided to reincarnate The Chandelier, a paper installation I originally made for Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2018. I upcycled sections of it into new shapes and forms, knotting and folding the paper, inspired by paper elements and objects used in Japanese shinto rituals.
Wearable art as jewellery crafted with the paper from this installation is also available in my online shop.
Shimmering Summer Necklace
Dancing with Autumn Earrings