Artwork Spotlight: Rose Sellery, Skin and Bones

We’re delighted to have three wonderful works by Rose Sellery (@rose_sellery) in Inside Out: Seeing Through Clothing. Today we’re highlighting Skin and Bones, a wearable sculpture made of found animal bones, upholstery piping and a tea-stained back brace.

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These materials evoke flesh-colored body parts that echo and exaggerate the imagined wearer’s skeletal form. Like much of Sellery’s work, Skin and Bones plays with language—the title offering a wry commentary on a fashion industry that promotes unhealthy body standards in its demand for thinness.

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Moving beyond the gallery, the artist’s conceptual garments come to life on the runway in fashion shows with Pivot: The Art of Fashion (@pivot.artfashion), organized by Sellery and Tina Brown (@ilkastyle).

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