Kirsten Hudson
Kirsten’s work explores notions of feminine subjectivity in the modern world, and the exposure of self to the pressures of contemporary culture. She comments on the trauma the average person encounters in their day to day living, with the awareness of “Holocaust, Hiroshima, Vietnam and the ‘War on Terror” and the Americanisation of culture in a postcolonial context. Referencing historical notions of glamour, she reworks a chandelier into a portrait of her flesh, and of herself as a woman negotiating the fashion narratives of her time.
Selected Works
Dim - a self portrait (from the arm candy series), 2010.
- Dim - a self portrait (from the candy series), 2010.
- Illustration by Kirsten Hudson
- 2010. Steel, car enamel, fish hooks, fishing line, pink food colouring, and 10.8 kgs icing sugar fondant (the weight of skin and fat the artist is having sculpted from her body).
Artists
Media
Accessories + objects of adornment
Hats, Belts, Bags + objects of adornment
Jewellery
Textiles
Beyond Garment is presented by the Western Australian Museum and
Perth Fashion Festival with support from the Department of Culture and the Arts
