10,000 Used clothing labels (Robe)
Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
1998 – 2004 Collection.
10,000 used woven and printed clothing labels.
Sculpture 3 x 3 metres.
A medieval cope worn by a bishop was designed to advertise news; finely embroidered detail would depict the life of Christ and seek to transform the wearer during ecclesiastical processions.
The 10,000 used labels represent our best clothes set aside for wearing to church on Sundays, the ceremonial garment revealing stories of image renewal and twenty first century consumption. The sculpture has been described as ‘an extravagant rescue of fashionable waste’. It provides a record of people and their garments, the shops that sell clothes and the speed of change in fashion and dress.
2004 Robe was selected and exhibited at Nottingham Castle where it won the prize for sculpture.
2012 Robe selected for exhibition at North Norfolk Exhibition Project at Salthouse 12, Cley, St. Margaret of Antioch Church.
2013 Invited to show Robe as part of ‘Fabric in the Building’ an exhibition in a Grade 2 listed Bank, Suffolk.
2015 The Lace Market Gallery, Nottingham showcasing Robe as part of a Solo Exhibition.
2019 Robe selected for the installation sculpture programme at the historic Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
