Hermione Flynn lifted eight
suits from
her summer collection called
A Modern Ritual, put them on models and with anarchic joy, instructed
the models to draw all over each other in a shop-gallery setting. Using drips
of ink and fine pen lines, the models embarked on a performance which
eventually finished with a stunningly altered collection.
It was the artist
directing the alteration of her own work. It took hours. The garments were
transformed into new items slowly and with concentration. It was art, and
performance, and agony – something to watch and savour. At the end, there were
photos, video footage, and about 25 newly inked garments.
Challenge is an essential component of Flynn’s work – she will take us into ideas and juxtapositions which may have just ambled past our notice in the regular routines of living.
Challenge is an essential component of Flynn’s work – she will take us into ideas and juxtapositions which may have just ambled past our notice in the regular routines of living.
The ink-overlay pieces
are for sale in the same way a designer’s sub-collection or an artist’s
lithographs are for sale: limited edition, and special. It would be an astute
art museum which chose to add one of these works to their holdings.
Terence H
