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Susan Holmes: Rainbow Warrior 1993
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Artist:
 Susan Holmes
Title:
 Rainbow Warrior
Year:
 1993
Type of Work:
 Costume
Awards:
 Winner Silk Section 1993 New Zealand Wearable Art Awards.
Runner up to Supreme Award.
Components:
Consists of hat, yoke and wings, dress and staff
Technique:

Crinkle silk dress.
Wings: appliqued shade cloth mesh stiffened with protruding fibre glass.
Yoke: appliqued velvet.
Staff: turned perspex rod

Location:
 Dismantled and sold separately as two dresses and a sculpture.
Photographer:

Phil Fogle
Angela Fraser, Patterns of Identity: Textiles in Aotearoa Research Team, 2006