Without parachute

Various works with various dimensions - please enquire if required.

The solo exhibition Without parachute was held at the Physics Room, in its older venue in the building above Alice’s video store in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, looking out over the Port Hills and, perhaps, the Bridle Track. The prints on the silk dress were made from LINZ files of the South Island’s braided rivers in Canterbury. The dress design was similar to those worn in the late nineteenth century, when some forebears left homelands in Europe, never to return. The use of silk referred to the dresses made from parachute silk after World War II when fine fabric was hard to obtain. Some of the smaller works were based on ‘trench art’ from that same period, seen at the Air Force World Museum in Wigram.