A glimpse of the studio process behind the new collection, 'Field Trip'.
Creative Direction: Nicholas Mckinlay + Edith Rewa
D.0.P + editing: Nicholas Mckinlay
Music: Indira Elias - If I'd known you (I wouldn't be so lonely)
Field Trip exhibits a world I found to be alive and erupting with colour, pattern and incredible plant peculiarities.
In a series of trips in 2016 I learned about desert places previously unknown to me, illustrating my way into an Australian landscape through the flora and fauna.
These silk scarves push the ‘Eremophila neglectas' of our plantscape into the spotlight, challenging the notion that ‘there is nothing out there’,noticing and applauding our arid land plants.
Fragments only, but I hope they take you there.
They are illustrated, printed and made in Australia.
Photography + Styling by Georgia Blackie
Olive Pink
Olive Muriel Pink (1884–1975 is a woman who opened a door onto a living arid landscape for me.
In her Alice Springs garden reserve, with rock wallabies looking over my shoulder, I sketched Eucalyptus orbifolia (minniritchie, Round-leaved Mallee) and several Eremophilas.
So much choice!
Pea Time
Glorious and brassy-bold on generations of tea-towels and Australiana souvenirs, I wanted to flaunt the Desert Pea's softer demeanour - all feminine curves, sloping keels and velvety foliage.
Embroidered Sturt Pea bralet, custom made on a PANSY bra by Anita Simunovic
Embroidered Sturt Pea bralet, custom made on a PANSY bra by Anita Simunovic
Sturt Pea earrings (available to buy soon) by Claire Mcardle
Wattle Seeds
Myrmecochory - seed dispersal by ants. This scarf illustrates the scattering of Acacia ligulata (Umbrella Bush) seeds across the desert floor.
Red Bud Mallee
This Mallee grows sparse and splendid, demanding its own floating silk space
Desert Dance (olive)
Eremophilas (Emu Bush), so many of them, all endemic to Australia, all desert loving. Here are just a few, rejoicing with arid friends.
Desert Dance (pink)
Eremophilas (Emu Bush), so many of them, all endemic to Australia, all desert loving. Here are just a few, rejoicing with arid friends.
Desert Pea earrings (available to buy soon) by Claire Mcardle
Embroidered Sturt Pea bralet, custom made on a PANSY bra by Anita Simunovic
Glaucous
1. Gr. glaucos, L. glaucus, silvery, bluish-green. Refers to ''bloom'' on leaves, fruit etc. a whitish, sometimes waxy, substance that rubs off. (Dictionary of Botanical Names, Don Perrin)
2. Scarf: Glaucous, intimate with burnt sienna sand.
Bush Silver: Stripped of colour and context these flowers shine in silver. I found beauty in their isolation as single specimens, especially Eucalyptus macrocarpa and Banksia menziesii, but essential is the companionship of their smaller, spindly, silver - stemmed friends.
Left to right (bottom row) : Acacia truncata (Red Eyed Wattle), Senna artemisioides (Silver Cassia), Eremophila neglecta, Eucalyptus kingsmillii, Hakea lorea (Corkwood), Unidentified acacia, Indigofera leucotricha (Silver Indigo), Ammobium alatum, Eucalyptus gillii. Left to right (Middle Row) : Erythrina vespertilio (Batswing Coral Tree, Bean Tree), Eucalyptus orbifolia (Round-leaved Mallee), Eucalyptus macrocarpa (Mottlecah), Hakea lorea (Corkwood), Hakea invaginata, Eucalyptus kingsmillii, Banksia menziesii, Eucalyptus kingsmillii, Crotalaria cunninghamii (Green Bird Flower), Acacia pyrifolia (Ranji Bush).
Sand Goanna (Gordon)
I saw my very first living Sand Goanna circling our campsite at Wooleen Station in Western Australia. But my second encounter, with a goanna resting lifeless on a rock shelf in Weano Gorge, Karijini National Park, allowed me to observe its intricate surface markings and patterns. This Sand Goanna circles around the scarf on a landscape of quick and instinctive sketchbook scribbles undertaken on the same trip.
Creative Direction : Georgia Blackie + Edith Rewa
Photography + Styling : Georgia Blackie
Model : Chaya from Chadwick Models
Earrings : Claire Mcardle
All scarves are printed and made on silk crepe de chine in Sydney
