Clothes as Architecture
Rachael Matthews and Louise Harries
2009
This research will examine the concept of Clothes as Architecture, to produce a series of projects and an exhibition. Selected makers will be invited to respond to unanswered questions raised in Eric Gill’s essay, ‘Clothes: An essay upon the nature and significance of the natural and artificial integuments worn by men and women’.
Gill sketches ideas of clothes as architecture traditionally associated with communities that now have a reduced significance in today’s world- houses, workshops, churches and town halls. Rather than viewing clothes as necessary uniforms, makers will explore the idea of clothes as functional garments, shelters, and museum pieces.
Accompanying beautifully crafted clothes the exhibition will reveal each maker’s personal narratives.
