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Still from Bruce Asbestos S/S 2021 virtual catwalk
Event
Bruce Asbestos x National Justice Museum S/S 2021 virtual catwalk
20 May 2021
Regular hours
- Thu, 20 May
- 19:30 – 20:00
Timezone: Europe/London
- Language: English
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Artist Bruce Asbestos presents his new virtual catwalk for summer 2021. The event is a collaboration with the National Justice Museum, as part of the new exhibition Power: Freedom to Create
About
Artist and designer Bruce Asbestos employs experimental 3D modelling and rendering to create a playful digital catwalk for his Spring/Summer collection. Informed by research trips to New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia combined with Asbestos’s love of American pop culture, the outfits shown on the catwalk muse on the power of cultural identity within a globalised visual culture.
The catwalk features wild interpretations of American icons including ‘Kroc’, a crocodile character based on the American McDonald’s tycoon Ray Kroc, who made the company a defining symbol of American capitalism.
The catwalk also references Asbestos’ recurring motif, the 'Eye of Newt', an ingredient famously used by the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Seen as a quintessentially British symbol and as a possible symbol of hopefulness in these difficult times, Asbestos has created a new inflatable artwork based on the ‘Eye of Newt’. Share a screen grab of your favourite outfit from S/S 2021 with #bruceasbestos on social media for a chance of winning one of 25 artworks before they go on sale.
Power: Freedom to Create runs from 21 May to 31 October 2021 at the National Justice Museum, Nottingham. The exhibition brings together works from the National Justice Museum’s Collection, selected entries from the 2020 Koestler Awards plus six contemporary commissions which explore the themes of power and creativity.
