h y b r i d s February 14th - March 14th 2007 Comme des Garçons, 17-18 Dover St London W1S 4LT

Collector & Curator - Emma Hawkins. Other artist showing her miniature costumes: Anna Cocciadiferro and press release
Photos on this page by CS Stevens

Harpy

Gryphon

 

Dodo

Tove

Egyptian man/bird Ba

London Le Cool Magazine write up:

Exhibition Hybrids: Minature Costumes & Chimarae
I’ve never been one for origami. Seriously, little pieces of paper folded into a flower or sailboat? What’s impressive about that? If you want to get the full experience, head to Dover Street Market and check out its fantastical Hybrids exhibition. Artist Polly Verity has created a miniature zoo of mythical creatures out of folded paper. A harpy’s hair blows silently over her pleated wings while a translucent-winged gryphon prepares for flight. (So she might have used wire to make their skeletons, it still boggles my mind.) Concurrently, antique collector Emma Hawkins and costumier Anna Cocciadiferro have created tiny period costumes intricately made from the remnants of Victorian specimen boxes like snake scales and butterfly wings. Sewn with tweezers, the clothes can be taken off and on the mannequins, but there’s certainly no way I’d dress my doll in them. / Ru