To Wear and Repair is the body of work Sophie created during their Honours year at Curtin University in 2018. Their creative practice-led research draws on their experience of depression, and asks: how might materially engaged and repetitive crafting driven practice create narratives of repair that subvert a whole, cured and fixed outcome?
The project explores personally significant worn garments that have lived through their experiences of depression; investigated through the deliberate manipulation of the artist’s worn garments through repetitive crafting and the material language of plants and textiles.
To read Sophie’s exegesis and know more about this body of work, you can reach them at sophiegenevievenixon@gmail.com
Installation view of To Wear and Repair at Curtin University, Bentley, WA.
2018, worn cotton shirt dress, 'tough and hardy' grass sprouts, cotton thread, felted merino wool, dimensions variable
Installation view of To Wear and Repair at Curtin University, Bentley, WA.
Photographed by Bo Wong
2018, 100gsm canson paper, mould, nasturtiums, 594x841mm each
Photographed by Bo Wong
2018, unpicked silk robe, cotton thread, nasturtiums, mould, dimensions variable
Photographed by Bo Wong
Photographed by Bo Wong
2018, rescued character house windows, pine, perspex, Oscar the Grouch sticker, 1400 x 900 x 700 mm
2018, unpicked cotton lining, wheatgrass seeds, felted merino wool, dimensions variable