Denise N Rall
CREATIVE PRACTICE
Deconstruction and re-assemblage of recycled garments that are embellished with lace, buttons, beads, trims and materials found on hand.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dr Denise N. Rall is an adjunct fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, in Lismore, New South Wales and an adjunct lecturer in the School of Humanities , Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. In 2009, her research into textiles followed after her Certificate IV accreditation in Costume from NSW TAFE. Her eclectic research interests include textiles, fashion and wearable art, and how technology and the Internet have changed women's roles in computing, domestic work, craft, and social protest. She currently examines the narratives surrounding the clothing of women in political positions. Rall's textile work focuses on reconstructing and re-assembling recycled clothing to provoke the audience to rethink fashion as 'new' along provocative themes such as: Fashion & War, Fractured Royals, and The Suffragettes - Women's Right to Vote.
BIO
Dr Denise N. Rall began her journey into recycled textiles following her Certificate IV accreditation in Costume from NSW TAFE. Her eclectic research interests include textile artworks, fashion and wearable art, with links to women's domestic work, and craft as social protest, or craftivism. Rall's textile work focuses on reconstructing and re-assembling recycled clothing to provoke the audience to rethink fashion as 'new' along provocative themes such as: Fashion & War, Fractured Royals, and The Suffragettes - Women's Right to Vote. She has exhibited at RMIT's Textiles & Fashion program in Melbourne, at Curtin University's Fashion & Design Course, and lectured at the University of Adelaide, Sydney University, in Brisbane, and Wellington, New Zealand on the topics including fashion, craft, reconstruction and re-use of the 'all ready made' as well as the cultural significance of mending.
CONTACT
denrall@yahoo.com or use the form below.