Ms Robyn Daw
QUT Art Museum
Queensland University of Technology
r.daw@qut.edu.au
Robyn, a practising artist and occasional lecturer, has written widely on craft, design and visual art. Originally from Melbourne, with degrees in studio practice and art history, she is currently Curator (Public Programs) at the Queensland University of Technology. Current curatorial projects include Material Witness - a national exhibition of contemporary Australian artists working with textiles, and Architects of Glamour + Masters of Style: Excerpts from a Century of Fashion Photography - for QUT Art Museum. She has worked in a variety of art institutions around Australia including five years with the Queensland Art Gallery.
Architects of Glamour + Masters of Style
'Architects of Glamour + Masters of Style: Excerpts from a Century of Fashion Photography' is an exhibition that celebrates the relationship between fashion designer, photographer, model and magazine. It follows the development of fashion photography from the cool black and white glamour images of twenties', thirties' and forties' couture, the emergence of youth culture in sixties' design, the challenge to sexual stereotypes and interest in subculture and fetish in the seventies and eighties, to contemporary experimentation with colour and digitisation. As well as following changes in couture over the past century, the exhibition reveals some of the shifts that have occurred in fashion photography: alongside designers and celebrity models, photographers are recognised and sought for their particular style, and have historically played a significant role as image-makers; their link to publishing houses such as Vogue and Vanity Fair in the twentieth century, and Visionaire in the twenty-first, creates a complex web of power and ownership.
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