Members are welcome to an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at Tasma's latest instalment reFashion/transForm.
Members are welcome to an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at Tasma’s latest instalment. reFashion/transForm investigates the possibilities that emerge when waste is reimagined as resource, casting discarded materials into new forms and meanings.
Senior Curator Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna and Fashion Historian Dr Lorina Cramer will explore the practices of transformation, adaptation, and reuse, situating them within both historical and contemporary contexts.
Imagined as a room, the exhibition becomes an interior that houses reconfigured objects transformed into a domestic space. It features pieces from the National Trust’s Costume Collection alongside works by emerging and established practitioners across fashion, furniture design, science, and history.
Complimentary tea and coffee will be served prior to the talk, followed by an exhibition walk-through. The Trust Shop will also be open, with members receiving 10% off all retail purchases.
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
