All photographs by Laura Sikes
Wearing is Loving presents select works from Sophie Nixon’s honours year at Curtin University. In this body of work, worn and damaged garments of personal significance to Sophie are altered through the use of plants. Pressing and crushing flowers over tears,
sprouting grass seeds through felt, encouraging roots to stitch together worn fabric. These garments are imagined as second skins or past selves, deliberately using plants to create unconventional stitching and abstracted modes of repair. In Wearing is Loving, repair is not defined as a whole or ‘fixed’ outcome, rather, emphasis is placed on the embodied act of repairing.
2018, worn cotton shirt dress, 'tough and hardy' grass sprouts, cotton thread, felted merino wool, dimensions variable
Unpicked silk robe, cotton thread, nasturtiums, mould, dimensions variable
Photographs by Laura Sikes
100gsm canson paper, mould, nasturtiums, 594x841mm each