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Hand and Heart Shall Never Part: The Fashion Collaboration of Linda Jackson and David McDiarmid

Start Date
24 September 2016
End Date
12 February 2017
Venue
Wollongong Art Gallery
Location
New South Wales, Australia
Curator
Dr Sally Gray
gallery view of colourful walls and garments mounted on walls
gallery view of colourful walls and garments mounted on walls
gallery view of colourful walls and garments mounted on walls
gallery view of colourful walls and garments mounted on walls
gallery view of colourful walls and garments mounted on walls
gallery view of colourful walls and garments mounted on walls. Intro text panel with image of curators.

Between 1975 and 1994 two friends – artist, designer and gay activist David McDiarmid and acclaimed fashion designer Linda Jackson – collaborated on Linda Jackson’s designs for Jenny Kee’s Flamingo Park boutique and later Linda’s Bush Couture label in Sydney. Sally Gray’s exhibition narrative and her extended catalogue essay trace the ideas and working methods that inspired this fashion collaboration and the historical context in which it took place.

 

Images courtesy of Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia