As part of the National Trust exhibition reFashion/transform join Dr Lorinda Cramer for an up-close look at selected pieces from the NTAV collection.
As part of the National Trust exhibition reFashion/transform join Dr Lorinda Cramer for an up-close look at selected pieces from the NTAV collection.
Presented together with the Trust’s curator, these fashion experts will show you the hidden richness and knowledge found within refashioned garments. This slow approach to seeing will explore sustainability, circularity and strategies of reuse. How were clothes updated, reconstructed, refreshed and updated?
I am a social and cultural historian exploring the gendered dimensions of dress and textiles, the worn and material histories of Australian wool, and historical examples of sustainable fashion and waste. With a decades-long professional background as a museum curator and collection manager, my research incorporates exhibitions, material culture and a close reading of ‘things’. This research extends Australia’s dress and textile history, promotes innovative uses of material culture to understand daily life, offers scholarly interventions into gender and class history (including how these are presented in museum exhibitions), and tackles memory and affect.
– Dr Lorinda Cramer
