Elisa Jane Carmichael’s latest exhibition ‘Weaving: Past Present Futures’.
Based on a collection of six sculptural forms of dress that form Carmichael’s creative practice for her Masters of Fine Art in Fashion at the Queensland University of Technology. Using jersey offcuts, recycled found materials, natural elements, cotton twine and cotton fabric digitally printed with the designs of her paintings, Carmichael hand makes the cording that forms her garments using the traditional techniques of looping, twining and coiling. Carmichael has shaped her own stories, using her hands, weaving personal narratives into wearable mediums, reviving the techniques of our ancestors’ traditional forms of everyday dress, contributing to an intergenerational history whilst acknowledging the strength and structures of traditional weaving techniques which have influenced the structure of the materials we wear today.
Weaving: Past Present Futures acknowledges the first forms of Australian adornments and textiles which have been unrecognised in the history of Australia and the history of Australian fashion. Through adapting traditional techniques into innovative woven forms, Carmichael’s works explore weaving past, present and future.
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