Go Go Whippet

05/12/2025

07/01/2024

Bad Omen Rowe’s Wildmen costumes, also known as Ghillie suits, are a unique representation of the carnivalesque in contemporary visual culture.

They subvert traditional norms and hierarchies by using accumulated domestic materials that are fading from significance to create decorative wearable landmasses. This emphasis on physicality and the body reflects the carnivalesque’s celebration of diversity and complexity.

17/11/2022

Mummers Ghillie is part of a an ongoing series of wearable landscapes that explore the history and origins of the Ghillie suit.

The Constrution of the costumes in this series utilise synthetic materials that abstract the wearer in a mass of symbolic material, harvested from the environment they are constructed in.

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16/11/2022

16/11/2022