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| Beyon Chrysalis |
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| BioLumina |
Local
textile artist Svenja, of Hawthorne, is one of eight Australian designers to be
selected for this year’s prestigious Brancott Estate World of WearableArt™
(WOW) Awards Show in Wellington, New Zealand.
Her entry Hakaturi is entered in the
Air New Zealand South Pacific section.
The WOW Awards competition this year
is extra-special because it marks WOW’s 25th anniversary. The proportion of
entries from around the world and from within New Zealand has almost reached a
perfect half-and-half, with 45 per cent having come from 15 countries around
the globe. Of 370 entries, 220 were pre-selected, with the final number of
entries reduced in a second round of judging to 160. These garments will
compete for 39 prizes, over seven different categories, and a share of $165,000
in prize money.
This is Svenja’s fifth year as a
finalist, and marks the first time she has created a three piece entry. The
bodices, headpieces and staffs of Hakaturi
have been moulded in leather, then dyed and painted. This is also the first
time the designer has worked with the material, and she describes the process
as “absolutely fascinating. I played with
cutting out flat shapes from leather, wetting them and moulding them, and it’s
just extraordinary what you can do!”
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| Euphony Iridacaea |
Her first entry, Beyond Chyrsalis, was
accepted in the 2008 Avant Garde section, won the Supreme Award at Fashion
Fantasia held in Hobart, Tasmania in 2009, and was purchased for their
collection. BioLumina won
International Runner Up at the 2010 World of WearableArt, was bought by the WoW
Trust for the collection, and was featured on Air New Zealand advertising
campaigns throughout New Zealand and within the airline, as well as being used
as the ‘hero’ design on all street banners and venue decoration in 2012. Her
2011 entry, Fimbria Figura, was on
display throughout the 2012 show season at the Intercontinental Hotel,
Wellington.
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| Fimbria Figura |
Euphony Iridacaea was a finalist last year in the Visual
Symphony Gen-I Creative Excellence section for 2012, which had music composed
especially to highlight the sound-making garments. This entry conjured up a
vision of delicate iris petals morphed with a gilded harp to become a
Musical Iris Goddess - part gleaming, metallic, musical creature and
part ethereal, exotic flower. Fibreglass petals were moulded, textured,
painted, gilded, and strung with music wire, with four separate petals
available to be played by picking or strumming.
The WOW® Show
season opens on Thursday, September 26 and the winners are announced at the Awards
Night on Friday, September 27.
Where: TSB
Bank Arena, Wellington New Zealand
When: 26th
September – 6th October 2013
Contact: studiosvenja.blogspot.com
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