What Artists Wear

What Artists WearMost of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are. In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating, eye opening journey through the iconic outfits worn by artists, in the studio, on stage, at work, at home and at play. From

The Munch Bowl by Studio Arhoj is large in size with a wide flat foot

Featuring 24 animals and their uniquely shaped poos

celebrating its diversity

comfortable reading glasses

What’s in the box

Patrick Goddard

Contemporary architects featured include Alvaro Siza

numbered and embossed with Southbank Centre’s logo

Each story is rewritten to be appropriate for an older audience

It places the spotlight on women painters

Beginning with the pioneering use of innovative sculptural materials in the 1960s – often concerned with transparency and reflection as well as minimal forms and gestures – the exhibition and catalogue explores the ways in which artworks engage or alter the viewer’s perception of the surrounding architecture

Made with a real wood magnetised base and baton with frosted acrylic glass