Art on Legs: Australia's Fashion Fantasia
Be amazed by a special exhibition of wearable art at the fair
– an eclectic collection of winning garments from Art on Legs.
Art on Legs is an annual competition open to all ages and features entries by fibre artists from all over Australia using any fabric, textile, fibre, medium and technique. Entrants produce wonderful, original designs to wear that have to be seen to be believed, rising to the challenge of inventing garments. Fashion is taken to its limit into the area where the body is the canvas.
Find out more about the next competition at the fair.
You'll see winning garments from 2002 to the present on display inspired by the categories including W'underware, Gondwana, Riches/Rags, Polar Bride and Avant Garde. There will also be wearable art items and accessories for sale too.
First Prize 2011:
'Port Arthur' by Sabrina Evans, Tas
The Port Arthur dress references the portraits that were taken of the last remaining convicts at Port Arthur. It also references the sandstone buildings, cat of nine tails and the isolation masks which were worn by the prisoners, in hand stitched pin tucks. It is made from linen and leather.
Second Prize 2011:
'Silk to Junk Mail Kimono' by Maggie Wretham, Qld
Rising from the earthquake a geisha redesigns her kimono with remnants of silk and junk mail. It is made from recycled silk, cane mats and junk mail.
Student Prize 2011:
'Queen of Coke' by Hannah Johnstone, Tas
Constructed from Coke cans using a hoop to form the skirt and plaster cast for the bodice to which hand cut pieces of tin were attached.
