A Story to Tell

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I'm touching on the point of irrelevance here but I'll go at it anyway because it's been a grey rainy day which has led me down paths of whimsical and unfocused browsing on the internet.  Louise Richardson, I repeat, isn't a designer but an artist based in Norwich who is exhibiting her work at the King of Hearts Centre, Norwich from 16th May. 

“I am currently looking at the
idea of memory and identity, bringing universal messages to the viewer
through the portrayal of objects in my own memory.”

The objects that Louise remembers from her memory clearly involve a lot of dresses.  Little girl princess dresses that have been worn to death and then grow dusty and weathered and butterflies congregate on them over time.  Or photographs from years gone by get scattered and interwoven in the muslin fabric.  I don't exactly know what tale Louise is trying to tell with each of her garments but it's both a personal one and one with themes that resonate universally.  I'm not suggesting for a minute that Louise takes these ideas to wearable clothing form because a fleeting glance at these images already make the eyes well up at a certain scratchy lemon tulle dress that I hated wearing but loved to look at and other garments of the same ilk. 

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55 comments

  1. That mossy vest is amazing. Thing about this is it could easily be adapted to garments you could wear. The creative process is very similar to the path a designer could take, it is just the end product that is slightly different.

  3. i like the one with the photographs more than the butterflys. The butterflys seems to be just pretty. u know, looks-wise. but the photographs one actually made me think.

  5. I love the one with the scribbled paper, and the moss vest is so funky, Imagine that with a leather skirt, the textures are so contradictory it would look fab, on someone, like say you 🙂

  8. Oh my. If I had money to purchase beautiful things to hang on my walls, this is what I would buy. Stunnnnnnnning.

  10. im impressed … incredible work …what a great idea !! i think im gonna add one of them in one of my collages ( in making a link of your blog of course ! )
    waou !!
    boubou

  11. Margiela had this incredible exhibition of dresses that were each in separate display and each had a different sort of fungus growing over them, green, red, blue fungus, you know, depending on the styling,ha,ha. There is nothing on the net about it, weird… Well, this reminds of it…

  12. Woww. I love that denim photograph dress, they really are an amazing collection of dresses.

  13. Wow…these are incredible! I might start gluing photos to dresses…although I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t come out like that.
    I saw you in bloody Vogue, miss! Congrats!
    x

  21. Au contraire, I don’t think this post is irrelevant at all. I think the lines between fashion and art are easily blurred (just look at those paper dresses in your previous post). Artists and fashion designers are just trading materials, I suppose.

  25. simply amazing. i like the look that everything is kind of decaying, lost in memory…

  33. I have once seen an exhibition by her at The Cut, in Halesworth. She is really amazing and I am glad to see someone commenting her work on the internet.
    🙂

  35. If i could wear the second dress I would. Love the way he use clothes in his art, clothing is an artform that many people dont think of as art.

  38. Nothing’s irrevelant! Regardless of the subject matter it will always have your unique take on it (that’s why I’m here).
    Thanks for the intro to Louise. We’ve all seen the butterflies and photographs before but I never tire of them, especially when used in such a personal way, and conveyed so exquisitely.

  41. She would make amazing clothes if she wanted too.
    These are incredible, and I love most art that deals with identity.

  42. These are so unbelievably beautiful and emotive! I always wonder how fascinating clothes could become if designers decided to ignore the human form, and give their message solely through clothing on display, and I suppose in a way this is one of the answers. The dress with the photographs is so breathtaking, I actually have goosebumps.

  43. her works amazing ive seen it exhibited at the norwich fringe festival a couple of times and she came in to talk to my a level art textiles class. alot of the photos she uses are crystalised in sugar. and she works in alot of non clothign fabric, a corset made of metal, a dress coated in plaster. theyre incridibly intricate up close.

  47. Just yesterdayI was browsing the work of an artist with similar concepts/asthetic. Usually I am not drawn to this kind of stuff, but these pieces have a kind of painful, yet sweet historical resonance. That probably sounds so loopy, but I just can’t put my finger on it. Either way, I’m loving this and I think I’ll check out what else she’s got on her blog…
    <3<3<3

  50. i am truly enamoured. i want to invite this beautiful creator to participate in my project so badly!
    this for me,is a true representation of utter poetry.

  52. I didn’t know her work, so thank you for this great post! My passion for anthropology is reflected in my obsession for the connections between memories and objects. This “book” I wrote about awhile ago, totally captured me:
    http://www.amazon.com/Important-Artifacts-Personal-Collection-Including/dp/0374175306/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241370514&sr=8-1
    it’s really on the “cool side” and it will (sadly in my opinion…) become a movie with Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman, but it’s surely one of the best things I stumbled upon lately 🙂

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