THE SUNSHINE COAT PROJECT
Shaye Hardisty and Ketakii Jewson-Brown
4 April 2023 - 29 April 2023
OPENING NIGHT TUESDAY 4 APRIL 2023, 6pm
CLOSING NIGHT PARTY SATURDAY 29 APRIL 2023
A new exhibition by Ketakii Jewson-Brown and Shaye Hardisty featuring a collection of coats alongside a photographic essay
The Sunshine Coat Project is an ode to slow and sustainable fashion and a love letter to Nambour. The culminating exhibition of an 18 month community project in which Ketakii and Shaye collaborated with 11 other creatives, this visual feast is a deep dive into the layers of place, memory, belonging, fashion, and Nambour.
A fashion, photography and video extravaganza, this is a project from the heart by a very talented interdisciplinary artistic duo..
Expect spontanteous dancing, musical interludes, deep reminiscence and colour!
The two artists have spent the last 18 months collaborating with 11 other creatives to create a series of coats representative of the richness and diversity of the township of Nambour.
The Sunshine Coats and the accompanying photographic and video essay will be on display.
A sustainable fashion speaking event will be presented as part of the exhibition on April 28th.
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Ketakii Jewson-Brown is a fine art photographer based in Maleny. She has exhibited at The Cooroy Butter Factory, Horizon Festival and The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. She highlights the wonder in the people and places that surround us and reminds us of our innate playful natures as humans.
Shaye Hardisty is a seamstress and musician based in Mapleton. She has taught workshops and played music across the coast, including Woodford Folk Festival’s Bushtime and the Festival of Small Halls. She believes in sustainability when it comes to fashion and helping to inform people of what this actually means on the ground. She has incorporated her sustainability and slow fashion ethos into the project through strict rules – only sewing with either recycled or organic materials, using scraps in clever ways and following up with suppliers to find out where things are not only manufactured, but grown.
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Most of the fabric used in this project has been digitally printed on Eco Drill, an organic and recycled cotton by Next State Print, a family-owned business based in Thornbury, Victoria.
