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Susan Holmes: Dragon Fish 1996
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Artist:
Susan Holmes
Title:
Dragon Fish
Year:
1996
Type of Work:
Costume
Awards:
Supreme Winner 1996 New Zealand Wearable Art Awards.
Brief:
Be inspired by undersea
Components:
Consists of mask, fins and front and back supported at shouders and waist. Underdress.
Technique:

Recycled baskets, mats.
Painted, dyed and stencilled silk organza fins, stiffened with split, tapering cane-like wood.
Ruched silk organza underdress.

Location:
Costume in World of WearableArt™ (WOW®) Collection, Nelson.
Artist has since made two copies of this piece for World of WearableArt™ (WOW®): all three costumes are owned by WOW®
Photographer:

Craig Potton

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