Exhibition 2020 | Photo
Georgie Simon‘Fashion vs Environment’ Second-hand garments, inkjet print on polyester spun yarn The artwork explores the way the fashion industry impacts and negatively contributes to our growing climate problem. Further, the imagery within the work exemplifies how fashion and textiles directly degrades the environment and natural world. The work, acting as a protest piece was created with the intent to stimulate change, and to educate people on the problem; specifically, to influence change to individuals’ shopping habits. Whether that be creating a circular system of consumerism, or ensuring that the clothes we wear are sustainably and ethically manufactured and sourced, my artwork seeks to evoke that change. As clothing is so accessible in our modern climate, even during the restrictions of the pandemic, those small steps to think longer about the impact of what you’re buying will contribute to reducing the catastrophe the planet is heading towards. In using sustainably sourced, second-hand clothing as the canvas for the photographs, an alternative to newly brought clothes is provided, and ensures my artwork isn’t another contributor to the issue. |
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