Chapter in new publication Activating the Inanimat Available here The dynamic exchange of perspectives that constituted the 2nd Global Conference of Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice demonstrated that the foundational concept of the project is a vibrant platform for sharing and extending ideas within all aspects of scenographic practice in performance. This volume is…
Movement Collection II This collection of garments was the concluding element of my practice-led PhD at the University of the Arts London entitled ‘Interface: Concept and Context as Strategies for Innovative Fashion Design and Communication: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Conceptual Fashion Design Practitioner’. (Bugg, 2006). Credits Photography: Roy Shakespeare
Flight: Drawing Interpretations Creative practitioners and researchers from the London College of Fashion A multi-disciplinary event featuring vignettes of live performance, film and artefact by artists and designers working across the disciplines of visual art, fashion design, costume, photography and curation. This event will showcase the work of artists who, through the practice of drawing…
Red Shoelace Dress The shoelace dress is constructed of many layers and lengths of shoelaces. It was developed from extensive experimentation with diverse textile possibilities in movement. It focuses on total body movement and is designed to encourage the wearer to move in response to the weight, materiality and active potential of the garment. Credits…
This work is part of the project Flight: Drawing Interpretations, a collaboration with researchers from London College of Fashion with The National Gallery in London. My work within this project extends design methods for contemporary dance through theoretical and empirical research into the relationship between design, drawing methodologies and cognitive theory to develop garments and choreography…
Emotion EMOTION COLLECTION 2011 This project has focused on the clothed body as a site for production of meaning, performance and communication through design. It exposes the role of clothing design as a generator of performance and communication through design. The project has explored the clothed body as visual and embodied narrative and the outcome…
Drawing with the body and cloth This work is part of the project Flight: Drawing Interpretations, a collaboration with researchers from London College of Fashion with The National Gallery in London. My work within this project extends design methods for contemporary dance through theoretical and empirical research into the relationship between design, drawing methodologies and…
Perceiving Dress – Optical Laces The film Perceiving Dress: Optical Laces is generated from research into sensory and visual perception of dress worn in movement. The dress is the performance site, designed as a tool to extend the experience, perception and physical response of the dancer. The dancers verbal and physical responses to the garment have been…
Wye Gallery Berlin A/W 13 The Installation performance at the Wye The ‘Black Point Dress’ performance was developed into a performance installation comprising the garment, film and live performance at the Wye Arts Centre in Berlin as part of Berlin Fashion Week 2013. Credits Photographer: Jessica Bugg
Grey Waves The Grey Waves Dress and performance embodies the movement and physicality of waves, water and wind and explores their relationship to the body. It also draws on ideas of balance and the movement of birds on water and in flight. The work is developed in response to a National Gallery painting A Detail from The Tempest by…
