Fashion Artists

 Fashion Artists,  is a dynamic group exhibition featuring Australia’s finest artists and designers working within the intersection of art and fashion, coinciding with the Melbourne Fashion Festival, and curated by leading fashion curator and writer, Paola Di Trocchio.

The exhibition will feature artists Atong Atem, Scotty So, Jenna Lee, Kate Rohde, Michael Zavros, Phong Chi Lai, Louise Meuwissen,  Collagism and Justin Ridler as well as works by Australian designers Romance was Born, Akira Isogawa, Amy Cottrell,  Matea Gluščević, Nicol and Ford,  Strateas Carlucci, Yanggurdi, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Youkhana Isogawa to name a few.  On at MARS from 8 February – 8 March 2025.

Paola Di Trocchio is a leading fashion curator, writer and speaker. In her 20-year career at the National Gallery of Victoria, she curated and co-curated 22 fashion and textiles exhibitions including 200 Years of Australian Fashion, Edward Steichen and Art Deco Fashion, The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift, Guo Pei and was co-ordinating co-curator for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier from the Sidewalk to the Catwalk.

Fashion Artists, explores artists working at the cross-section of fashion and the body and explores the potential of the body to become a site for artistic ideas. Sculpting textiles, using fabric as a canvas, projecting painterly ideas or debating issues within the fashion world, these artists use the characteristics of fashion within their artistry to reflect ideas relating to beauty, the macabre, the comical or identity. Fashion Artists invites viewers to explore the work of artists and designers at the forefront of contemporary Australian fashion and art practice.