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Dress Maps Body Contours

Item date(s): 2008

Sue Pam-Grant


Description: Fabric book

Medium: Fabric
Size: 330mm
Technique: Mixed media
Edition: Unique

Type: Fabric book
Theme(s): Body; Skin; Fragility; Dress

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: The artist
Exhibition 2017

Reference note:
An 'autobiography' in the form of the body narrative, articulated through the undergarment, inner-lining and materiality of 'The Dress' - our 2nd skin. An examination of the fragility in resilience.

Linen, cotton, mixed media, board, beehive drawer frames

330 x 440mm

Exhibition notes:
‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.

FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.

Curated by David Paton and Eugene Hon.

24 March - 5 May 2017



Ref: DP/17086









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