Mr Craig Douglas
Art Theory
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
c.douglas@mailbox.gu.edu.au
Craig is currently completing a doctorate on the subject of curatorship in Australian regional art galleries and is a Senior Lecturer in Art Theory. He was founding director of the QCA Gallery (1982) and was a member of the development team for Global Arts Link , Ipswich (1999). Craig has curated a number of exhibitions including -' Typical? Australian' with Humphrey McQueen and ' Tokyo Vogue: Japanese and Australian fashion' with Bonnie English.
Frames of Display - Fashioning a Space of Representation
"The public museum's formation was dependent on the fashioning of a new space of representation, which provided a new context for the display of [...] valued objects inherited from previous collections" (Bennett 1995: 33). In the twentieth century, the valued objects of fashion design - the dress, the suit and other items of apparel found their way from designer's collection into those of the museum, as well as its ' space of representation' - the gallery. Twenty-first century rural Australia, through the regional gallery's 'frame of display' has provided a non-metropolitan audience with fashion engagements. A number of exhibitions and art collections dealing with or containing fashion design, fabric and apparel have been shown in the regions in recent years. This paper considers selected regional exhibition projects, their outcomes and highlights the importance of this art form to regional Australia.
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