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Shattered silk side-lace ankle boot, c. 1860’s
Exhibition
London College of Fashion presents Footnotes: Intimate Stories of Shoes at Sutton House
9 May 2018 – 31 Jul 2018
Event times
Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm – 5pm
Cost of entry
£7 adults, £3.50 children. Under 5s and National Trust Members Free. Family Ticket Available.
Address
- 2 & 4 Homerton High Street
- Hackney
- London
- E9 6JQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Train: Hackney Central, Hackney Downs
As part of London Craft Week, London College of Fashion, UAL, presents Footnotes, an exhibition of artist responses to the College’s historic shoe archive hosted at the National Trust’s Sutton House in Hackney.
About
The exhibition will, for the first time, reveal objects from London College of Fashion, UAL’s eclectic archive which includes 1930s orthopaedic footwear, silk slippers from the 1800s and even a shoe made for a sheep.
Artists Eelko Moorer, Ellen Sampson, Linda Brothwell and Laila Diallo have produced new works inspired by the remarkable history of the selected shoes revealing new interpretations of historic objects under the guise of five categories – Scale, Balance, Fragility, Singled Out and Common/Uncommon.
The selected shoes will form a trail through the historic east London property, which has 500 years of different period rooms, from 1530s to the 1980s, making it an ideal venue in which to chart the history of the exhibits. Included in the exhibition is a small Victorian girl’s shoe which was found under the floorboards at Sutton House dating back to its time as Eliza Temple’s School of Etiquette for Girls.
The exhibition will be open to the public at Sutton House from 9 May 2018.
Curated by Alison Moloney, from the Centre for Fashion Curation, a research centre based at London College of Fashion, UAL with archive co-curation by Amy de la Haye, and supported using public funding by Arts Council England and sponsored by Kurt Geiger, the exhibition explores the cultural significance of shoes through the artists’ interpretations.
