All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2023
In Everyone’s heard of a dragon at Craft Victoria
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2023
In Everyone’s heard of a dragon at Craft Victoria
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail).
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail).
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail).
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail).
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail).
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail).
Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (detail)
Retired costume jewellery from the collection of Rose Chong Costume Shop (base metals, plastic, diamante, rhinestone and paste) found and donated antique, vintage, and new costume and fine jewellery, (base metal, silver, gilt, brass garnet, pearls, glass, plastic, diamantes, rhinestones and paste, porcelain, glaze, enamel, shell, opal), safety pins, handmade vintage clothing rack salvaged from the Diamond Creek Op Shop (Austin Health) at the time of its forced closure c.2010, steel hardware
With special thanks to Rose Chong and Eliza Tiernan, and to all who generously donated to this work including Rose Chong and Rose Chong's Costume Shop, Sarah Rayner, Catherine Bell, Raquel Ormella, Miranda Skoczek, Katie Stackhouse, Carla Adams, Fiona Hiscock c/o Elsa Haas, Lee Dewar, Laura McMahon, Sophie Bishop, Jessica Wheelahan, Emmica Lore, Gabbee Stolp, Natalie Thomas, Eddy Carroll, Kate Dick, Jordan Wood, Anne Stonehouse, Julie Austin-Dear, Margaret-Anne Milburn and many many other's who’s hands and lives these objects passed through, names unknown.
This project was presented as part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Contemporary, and supported by City of Yarra through a Small Projects Grant.
Photography by Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (Installation view). Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (Installation view). Photography Henry Trumble
All the Treasure Together (Pins and Paint), 2022 (Installation view). Photography Henry Trumble
Louise Meuwissen and Rose Chong Costumes present All the Treasure Together - a sparkling sculptural shroud of retired antique, vintage and new costume jewellery from the collection of Rose Chong Costume Shop, and the generous donations of the wider community.
This work considers the embellishments and adornment of costuming as mechanisms to draw forth parts of ourselves that may not always be visible or shared, represent abstract concepts, commune collectively with a broader theme, to disguise ourselves or become someone else.
Costumes are a tool of transportation to peripheral realms. Other times, other places, other selves.
Drawing on the rich history and rituals of dressing up, Meuwissen's garish, glittering work asks us to consider the relationship between personal-expression and escapism, and to question 'what is real, and what is make-believe?'
With special thanks to the generous donations of Rose Chong and Rose Chong's Costume Shop, Sarah Rayner, Catherine Bell, Raquel Ormella, Miranda Skoczek, Katie Stackhouse, Carla Adams, Fiona Hiscock c/o Elsa Haas, Lee Dewar, Laura McMahon, Sophie Bishop, Jessica Wheelahan, Emica Lore, Gabbee Stolp, Natalie Thomas, Eddy Carroll, Kate Dick, Jordan Wood, Anne Stonehouse, Julie Austin-Dear, Margaret-Anne Milburn and many many other's, names unknown.
This project is presented as part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Contemporary Festival and supported by the City of Yarra through their Small Projects Grants 2022
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Pins (Extra / this old thing), 2019
Smart phone digital collage – phone fantasy (images of historically important and imitation/dress jewellery brooches and pins found on Pinterest)