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9.15am - 6.30pm

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Painted Garments: Conversations between Painting, Fashion and Textiles

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    The Hub, 42 Bonar Road, London SE15 5FB

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A one-day creative symposium with Keynote Speakers; Artist, Delaine Le Bas and Dr Rosalind Mckever, Curator of Paintings and Drawings, V&A.

Painted Garments: Conversations between Painting, Fashion and Textiles

22nd May, 9.15am - 6.30pm (TFL planned strikes may affect your journey)

The Hub, 42 Bonar Rd, London SE15 5FB.

A Creative Symposium co-convened by Dr Tom Cardwell and Dr Sarah Kate Wilson, both Senior Lecturers of BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.

9.15am: Registration and refreshments
9.50am: Welcome Address by Dr Tom Cardwell and Dr Sarah Kate Wilson
10.15am:Dr Rosalind McKever, Keynote and Q&A. A frock From Schiaparelli Ranks Like A Modern Canvas
11.05am:Dr Timea Andrea Lelik,Dressed to Resist: Dress, Authority, and Female Sovereignty in Leonor Fini’s Painted Garments
11.30am:Refreshment Break
11.50am:Dr Craig Staff, Making Soft: The Zipper Paintings of Karen Carson
12.15pm:ProfMarian Mazzone,Pattern Thinking: Garment, Image, and Computational Form
12.40pm:DrHelen Westgeest, Painted Garments asShehzil Malik’sMedium forFeministActivism
1.00pm:Lunch (provided for all guests)
2.00pm:Keidra Daniels Navaroli, “Swagga Like Us:”Clothing, Culture, and Rhetoric in the Fiber Portraits of Kandy G. Lopez
2.25pm:Caroline Herma, Embroidered Illusions: Painted Copes as Image Carriers between TextileMateriality and Corporeality in Late Medieval Panel Painting
2.50pm:The Neo Naturists, Body Paint is the Ultimate Painted Garment
3.15pm:Refreshment Break
3.40pm:Amrita Dhallu, We Live in Clothes, We Live in Buildings - Do They Fit Us?
4.05pm:Dr Anne Reimers, Dressed in Paint: Time, Labour, and Materiality in Paint-Stained Artists' Dress andLuxury Fashion
4.30pm***Audience relocate to the Gallery Space for Keynote by Delaine Le Bas***
4.40pm:Delaine Le Bas,Keynote and Q&A
5.25pm:Closing Remarks Dr Tom Cardwell and Dr Sarah Kate Wilson
5.30-6.30pmDrinks Reception

The event is supported by the CCW, Staff Research Fund.

The event is free and open to all with an eventbrite ticket. A complimentary lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
Please contact us if you have any specific access requirements: t.cardwell@arts.ac.uk