Lisa Gorman has always looked to art as inspiration. The Gorman founder and former creative director, who departed the eponymous fashion label after 22 years, is starting a new chapter as a multidisciplinary artist, drawing on her love of colour and textiles to create luminous sculptures.
At Warrnambool Art Gallery, in a show curated by director Aaron Bradbrook, Gorman’s sculptures, plus her large-scale, site-specific installation, are being exhibited alongside the art of Mirka Mora, including Mora’s doll-like creatures, paintings, and rarely exhibited tapestries. The two artists’ visions of celebrating life, ‘joie de vivre’, and imagination are united through a selection of garments from their Gorman X Mirka Mora collaborations in 2016 and 2018.
Drawing inspiration from the two fundamental components of weaving, the warp and weft, Gorman’s latest work