Alice Crawford

McIvers Vestments

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Linen, embroidery thread, beads, sequins, photographic prints, approx 86cm by 86cm, 2016-present

"Vestments" is a vintage style cozzie and beach cape sewn from fabric printed with pinhole photos of the McIvers Ladies Baths at Coogee, celebrating a sacred women's space with a traditional women's art form of sewing, beading and embroidery, bringing swishy movement and a bit of sparkling play to the photographic form.

Shown alongside traditionally-printed pinhole photos of the baths, and including an interactive element of making available the pinhole camera itself for gallery-goers to examine and possibly use in the gallery space.

Alice Crawford is a multimedia artist who has worked across textile art, botanical illustration, photography, collage, and animation.
Much of this work is a response to the notion of the 'anthropocene' and the need for humanity to create new modes of kinship with the Earth and its other inhabitants - sometimes darkly comic, but always with an eye out for the glimmers of hope that exist for a re-formed future of community and joy.

Their work has appeared in academic publications, cafe shows, online exhibitions, album covers and visualizers, and in the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the ongoing collaborative work "Creation," organised by artist Deborah Kelly to which they contributed collage, embroidery, and performance.