Lost In Lace

Lace has always been a key factor in fashion for hundreds of years; it is one trend that will never leave the catwalk or the streets. It is a unique fabric that is in our past, present and future. All you need to look at is Louis Vuitton's S/S12 collection with their new take on lace.

A number of artists have come together in the Gas Hall at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery to create the Lost in Lace exhibition. The works play with ideas around holes, spaces, boundaries and structures. It asks questions about how we divide space, both physical and architectural, using materials ranging from Swarovski crystals to polymers to video, from Tyvek to black wool and white cotton.

Traditionally white lace is associated with purity and black with sensuality. In this exhibition you vividly see the two opposites collide.

This is a must see in my book, not only if you’re interested in art, fashion or textiles but just to see the unique views from each artist about what the word lace means to them.

29^th October 2011- 19^th February 2012 at the Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, B3 3DH

Atelier Manferdini 

Inverted Crystal Cathedral

 Piper Shepard

Lacing Space

 Reiko Sudo

Juxtaposition

 Liz Nilsson

The Latticed Eye of Memory

 Chiharu Shiota

After the Dream

Tamar Frank

A Thin Line Between Space and Matter

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CAMILLA RAVEN

My name is Camilla Lucinda Raven and I am a 19 year old, second year Fashion Communication student at Northumbria University. I have created this blog for a module at University, 'Contemporary Design Influences' and intend to research then post imagery and information from diverse sources about trend predictions and other fashion related topics.

Stand by for my first real post tomorrow from the city of Birmingham.