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18/06/2026

Pages of Beauty cont’d

Here are the collage works that are included in the recent Schiaparelli Anglomania book - a thing of total beauty. Thanks again to and and all for their support and interest my work.

There are both new and older works, but what I like about all of them is they play with the idea of spectacle and power. I remember particularly thinking when I made the piece combining the Bronzino portrait of Lucrezia Medici with Schiaparelli gold breast plate from 2021, how I had thought of it as somehow being her wearing her dowry. So many 16th and 17th portraits of women were indeed painted to reflect their status and I guess ‘marriageability’. And there is something in this that echoes today in how I for one, look or observe the ideas and tropes around couture. It represents something beyond the actual clothing or indeed the wearer. Its definitely to me a complex thing - this entanglement of power and status with beauty or ideals around beauty or how wealth and desirability seem to be inextricably linked.

Details of works are below in the comments

25/05/2026

Reinvention

Another piece from Jonathan Anderson’s first Dior collection. I love how his work plays with history both in terms of fashion and art with his designs often referencing both. Take this outfit with its beautiful brooch - a miniature painted by the artist Rosalba Carriera in around 1715. Carriera, an italian Rococo artist was best known for her miniature portraits and was one of the most successful women artists of her time, but as is often the case with women artists throughout history had become somewhat forgotten so it is a joy to see Anderson reinstate her. I really like how the texture and colours of the clothes seem to echo that of Carrieras work.

I’ve combined it with another work of reinvention if you will. This portrait of a young woman was painted by the french artist Louis Léopold Boilly, judging by the fashion in the early 19th century around 1810 maybe (its in a private collection so I don;t have exact details alas)
What’s interesting about it is that the subject has a cropped hairstyle which echoed the way in which the hair of the aristocracy was cut before they were guillotined, initially women wore it as a sign of mourning those who were executed, but it also became a symbol of rebellion against the towering wigs of the nobility.

So yes both fashion and art history reimagined, each informing the other. Wealth & Rebellion an eternal dichotomy...

I’ll add some links to more info on the hair styles etc in my stories. Def worth a read/listen!

24/05/2026

Heatwave

Some older pieces I am very very partial to that seem appropriate for this hot weather which has even reached Glasgow, although not quite as ‘intensely’ shall we say as further down south. But at least the sky is blue...

Details
1. Clothes - Gucci RTW 2021 with Rogier Van der Weyden’s 1460 Portrait of a Lady (now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC)
2. Clothes - Chanel 1994 with Pieter Souten’s 1626 Portrait of the Wife of Alexander van Capellan (her name was Emilia by the way!) (now in a private collection
3. Clothes - Jean Paul Gaultier RTW 2022 with Bernardino Licinio’s 1524 A Family Group (now in the Royal Collection)
4. Clothes - Chanel 2013 with this 1615 Portrait of Gertrude Sadler, Lady Astor by an unknown artist (now in a private collection)

Hope you all keeping cool and hydrated out there whether in a swimsuit and ruff or not....

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17/05/2026

Femininity

I actually cannot believe that this is my first post this year! I’ve been working non stop in theatre and never seemed to be able to find the space to think about my collage work, which I have missed more than I can say. So am so happy to now have a bit of time to make some work in

I’ve been keeping an eye on the years fashion trends and all the comings and goings in the fashion world. I’ve been somewhat dismayed by the decline in female representation at the top of the couture houses, it feels to me to be a step in the wrong direction. Its fascinating to me that so much of the ideas around femininity and of course desirability is still in the hands of men, albeit some of them are very talented, but thats not the point...

Anyway I was intrigued to see Jonathan Andersons first collection for Dior. It certainly plays with all the female tropes or perhaps cliches. WHether or not its a fresh take or an empowering one I have yet to make up my mind. What do you think?

The palette and textures and imagery reminded me of a lot of art, especially Ingres who I feel seems to capture a sense of women trapped inside an ideal. Or maybe thats just me projecting that onto it!

SO this new piece seems melancholic and fragile and ‘feminine’. In a good way or not. I’ll leave it to you to decide.

The original Ingres portrait is of Madame de Moitessier painted in 1851. The original is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

28/04/2026

Today is all about strong women in denim as its press night for a very special theatre show I’ve been working on about the Lee Jeans Sit In - a seven month fsit in that took place at the Lee Jeans factory Greenock in 1981 by the mainly female workforce fighting for their jobs. Its an amazing story that has been brought to life by an amazing company, one I have been very proud to have been a part of. If you are in Scotland I totally recommend you try and see it! I’ll link to it in my stories. In celebration of the show and the denim in it I thought this work might be appropriate to reshare these works that feature denim in them. The first piece is Schiaparelli from 2022 which I paired with an Allori portrait of Isabella de Medici from 1570 (now in the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh) The second piece is from AWAKE Mode which I have paired with a Moroni portrait of Luisa Vertova Giovanni from 1560 (now in the Musee D’Arts in Nantes)

22/04/2026

Final few days of my exhibition The Power of Costume at the lovely Citizens Theatre, Its been such a joy to have my work there for so long and seen by so many people. Hope those that saw it enjoyed it!

Finally working on some new collages now after a long time away in theatre land so watch this space!

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