Julia Holderness SCAPE Public Art Commission

Julia Holderness has installed ‘Figure Studies’, a new large-scale public art commission for Scape Public Art, at Hotel Montreal, Ōtautahi Christchurch.

This 8 x 4 m lightbox poster design makes use of costume designs and figure studies from a Florence Weir workbook from her year studying at the Bauhaus.

Florence Weir (1899-1979) is the only known New Zealander to have studied at the Bauhaus. In 1936 Weir designed the costumes and sets for a local Ōtautahi Christchurch production, and these were said to have been inspired by her time at the Staatliches Bauhaus, Germany. The workbook includes intricate and abstract costume and prop designs.

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