For Design Island 2008 Tara Badcock & Monique Germon have undertaken a collaborative project titled 'Beautiful Empire'. This project consists of the creation of a series of photographic works which showcase our design work in Tasmania. We have chosen to explore the ability clothing has to communicate ideas and opinions within a natural landscape or constructed environment.
We are exhibiting these images within a context which will allow the viewer to see images of our work within the Tasmanian landscape, which, as a potent and inspiring environment, informs both of our design aesthetics.
We also have incorporated a national & international audience for our project and will exhibit the images in cities such as Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich, Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, London, New York & Dubai, where we have made contacts from previous travels and previous design projects.
Tasmania's exotic reputation, both nationally and internationally is a potent source of marketing potential and through innovative styling of our images we aim to draw as much attention to our natural environment as possible. 'Beautiful Empire' collaboratively weaves together our individually developed aesthetics to create a bridge between one another, across the island from north to south and to further then out into the world, whereby promoting Tasmanian design on a mass scale, literally 'crossing hemispheres' to continue to uphold Tasmania's growing reputation as an island of innovative & inspired design.
For further information and where to find our designs, please contact us through the links on the left hand side.
