Untitled (Drip) 2025
Costume Design
Costume Design for Untitled (Drip)
A collaboration between myself and Amber Mcartney commisioned by Mpavilion
Field research along the Birrarung informs the process, mapping the human body through creaturely poses, which are then digitally reconstructed. Virtual sketches of 3D forms are overlaid onto the body, with soft extrusions realized through FDM 3D printing.
Upcycled puffer jackets are draped to form hulking new limbs, while industrial techniques shape shoulder growths, which are systematically wrapped in mesh and coated with spray finishes. Merino fibres envelop the upper body, binding the new growths in place.
From the depths of the Birrarung’s murk, a creature stirs—a strange, glistening entity, part tendons, part circuitry, a newly born hybrid being curious to inhabit the body of water that has surfaced at MPavilion.