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“She Lived in a Magical Dimension” Celebrating the Life of Mirka Mora with Lisa Gorman
Art, Fashion A new exhibition at the Warrnambool Art Gallery celebrates the work of two powerhouses of Australian creativity: fashion designer Lisa Gorman, and artist, Mirka Mora. The pair collaborated back in 2016, when Mora provided designs for Gorman's eponymous clothing label, two years before her death.
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First Look Gorman x Mirka Mora
A retrospective exhibition of Mirka Mora's work, Pas de Deux—Drawings and Dolls is at Heide Museum of Modern Art from October 27 until March 24, 2019. The Mirka + Gorman collection is available online and the Heide Store now. Broadsheet is a proud media partner of Heide Museum of Modern Art.
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Mirka Mora + Gorman Artist Collaboration COOL HUNTING®
Mirka Mora + Gorman Artist Collaboration The 88-year-old Australian icon has her paintings translated into delightfully bold fabrics Katie Olsen 14 July 2016
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Mirka Mora x Gorman - The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog. Mirka Mora x Gorman Our eyes basically popped out of our sockets when we recently received an email from local fashion house Gorman announcing their collaboration with Mirka Mora. WHAT a COUP! We can't imagine a more wonderful match. One of everything, please! Written by
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Mirka Mora: Why did you want to collaborate with me? Lisa Gorman: I first laid eyes on your paintings when visiting Tolarno [the Moras' cafe and gallery, now a hotel] in St Kilda many years ago when I first moved to Melbourne. I'm fascinated by your use of different mediums, particularly her dolls, and her other-worldliness that is consistently represented throughout her work.
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The exhibition puts into dialogue select garments from the Gorman label's iconic 2016 and 2018 GORMAN X Mirka collaborations, together with rarely exhibited embroideries, beloved soft sculptures, and seldom before seen paintings directly from the Estate of Mirka Mora, alongside the unveiling of a large-scale, site-specific, sculptural.
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French-born Australian artist Mirka Mora was a beloved inspiration in the Australian art and culinary scene and formed a lasting friendship with Lisa Gorman following a collaboration for the fashion label in 2016.
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Now designer Lisa Gorman pays tribute to Mora in a 23-piece Gorman collection, which features prints from four of Mora's original artworks. The range includes totes, zip purses and earrings, as well as hand-embroidered dresses inlaid with small round mirrors. To celebrate the collaboration, we get out of the way and let the two Melburnians.
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Gorman's New Collaboration with Mirka Mora
Artist Mirka Mora in her studio in Richmond, wearing the Gorman dress she collaborated on in August, 2016. Credit: James Geer Despite being outspoken on issues of sustainability in fashion (Gorman.
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Gorman's New Collaboration with Mirka Mora
3 Jan 2024 Celina Lei Interior Design LISA GORMAN + MIRKA MORA, installation view at Warrnambool Art Gallery. Photo: Supplied. Share According to her son and galleriest William Mora, Australia's beloved icon, Mirka Mora (1928-2018), notoriously hated collaborations.
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First Look Gorman x Mirka Mora
LISA GORMAN + MIRKA MORA: to breathe with the rhythm of the heart aligns the work of two pioneering and ground-breaking Australian artists whose practices traverse generations and medium; intersecting at two iconic moments in Australian art and fashion history.
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“She Lived in a Magical Dimension” Celebrating the Life of Mirka Mora with Lisa Gorman
6 likes, 1 comments - warrnambool.region_arts on November 27, 2023: "@warrnamboolartgallery ・・・ Crossing paths in 2016 and again in 2018, Lisa Gorman and Mirka." Warrnambool Region Arts on Instagram: "@warrnamboolartgallery ・・・ Crossing paths in 2016 and again in 2018, Lisa Gorman and Mirka Mora created two now-iconic garment.
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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.
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Mirka Mora (1928-2018), French-born artist and restaurateur, narrowly escaped Auschwitz as a girl. Having trained in drama in Paris, by 1951, when she came to Melbourne with her husband, Georges, she was committed to painting.
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Mirka Mora + Gorman Artist Collaboration COOL HUNTING®
Mirka Mora Curated by Aaron Bradbrook Events Exhibition Tour: Katie Somerville National Gallery of Victoria Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles 18 Nov 2023, 11 - 11:45am Public Lecture: Lisa Gorman At The Lighthouse Theatre 19 Nov 2023, 10:30am - 12pm Book Signing: Lisa Gorman 19 Nov 2023, 1:30 - 2:30pm
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17 November 2023 It's a joyful explosion of colour as Warrnambool Art Gallery brings two Australian fashion and art icons together for its latest world premiere exhibition, Lisa Gorman + Mirka Mora: To breathe with the rhythm of the heart.