Blurring the Boundaries:
Fashion Design Innovation in Contemporary Knitting

Blurring the Boundaries is a cutting edge exhibition at Fairfield city
Museum and Gallery celebrating the work of thirty national and
international artists and designers who blur the boundaries between art,
fashion, craft, design and technology. They have embraced these forms of
practice and created a new language of clothes. This exhibition explores
fashion by artist and designers who have distinguished themselves in
textiles, visual art, jewellery, millinery and metal work. They
challenge the traditional art of knitting, tread uncharted terrains and
play with the language of clothes. This is a unique exhibition designed
to question the ongoing debate of what constitutes the 'art' of dress.

This exhibition is about conceptual work. It offers a fresh look at the
art of knitting and demonstrates that knitting is a valid art form and
capable of stunning diversity. Artists and designers combine old
traditions with new technologies and set a precedent in the way the body
is dressed. Through their personal visual iconography they have created
a new synthesis of fashion which like the body has many layers of
meaning. It is about cerebrating the body. In this exhibition art and
fashion have been placed in juxtaposition, sometimes in complementary
visions, sometimes in unsettling contrasts.

Date: 24 June -13 August 2006
On View: Fairfield City Museum & Gallery. Cnr The Horsley Drive &
Oxford Street Smithfield NSW 2164
Telephone: (02) 9609 3993
Hours: Tue -Sat 10-4 Sun 1-4
Admission Free

For information please contact:
Susan Hutchinson, Coordinator  on 9609 3993
Email shutchinson at fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au 


Susan Hutchinson
Coordinator,   Fairfield City Museum and Gallery
Cnr The Horsley Dr. and Oxford St., Smithfield, NSW
PO Box 2464, Smithfield, NSW 2164
Tel: (02) 9609 3993   Fax: ( 02) 9757 4357
www.fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au/museumgallery