Annabelle Collett, Jewel mask, 2012, plastic tray, utensils, beads, lids, toys, 90 x 75 x 10cm. Photo: Kerry YOude
Celebrating the last 15 years of an inimitable artist and change-maker, with a selection of her fantastic plastics and fabulous fabrics!
Curated by Fulvia Mantelli and Samuel Mulcahy
Annabelle Collett (1955-2019) was a significant figure in the development of Adelaide’s art and fashion scenes, as well as interior designs of iconic cafés and clubs.
Driven by social politics and community engagement, Collett was a trailblazer, provocateur and innovator. Her conceptual and creative influences on audiences, her contemporaries and emerging artists, continue to resonate in her wake.
ReDress presents works spanning the range of Collett’s studio-based art practice, to re-address, re-examine and reaffirm her position as an important contemporary artist.
From the early 1990s, Annabelle concentrated on making sculptural art pieces about the human form and its coverings, looking at the function and cultural meaning of attire with reference to ideas about gender, the body and sexuality. In more recent years Collett also investigated notions of camouflage, disguise, pattern and the affect of disruptions to pattern. She is also known for a series of works with recycled and found plastics that focussed on repurposing waste and challenged the widespread adoption of single-use plastics. Excerpt from Annabelle Collett: Creator and Catalyst, by Kathie Muir, published by Wakefield Press an available at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery shop for $49.95.
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery is pleased to simultaneously present ReDress with Botanical Armour, the first solo exhibition by Samuel Mulcahy, a rising regional artist mentored by Annabelle Collett for many years.
