{"id":294,"date":"2011-04-11T00:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kriesi.at\/themes\/brightbox\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2022-05-29T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T18:22:15","slug":"portfolio-3-columns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/?page_id=294","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage1a.jpg\" alt=\"montage of the empty dress\" class=\"wp-image-1269\" width=\"977\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage1a.jpg 804w, https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage1a-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>&#8220;A garment is a wrapping that draws a person&#8217;s imprint; <\/em><em>it is a relic which serves as a replacement. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>It represents a person, a mood, a place, an authentic feeling.&#8221; <\/strong> <\/em>Louise Bourgeois<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a potent feminine symbol the \u2018Empty Dress\u2019 is pivotal to my work, my mother was a couturier dressmaker and the image of \u2018empty dresses\u2019 hanging up in her sewing room has a powerful resonance that I have taken through life.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mum-working.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1200 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mum-working-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Dorville fashion house in 1953\" width=\"458\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mum-working-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mum-working-1024x726.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/>Dorville Fashion House, 1953<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>My mother began her training at Dorville House, London as couturier in 1953 and this shows her hand finishing on the Queen&#8217;s coronation robes. She worked there for 15 years before leaving to be a mother. She is the woman to the left of the photograph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This series of work began with a desire to revisit a museum I remember visiting as a child with my mother in search of an \u2018empty dress\u2019 belonging to Charlotte Bront\u00eb. The conversations we had about the \u2018empty dress\u2019 on display have always captivated my imagination; the faded lace and fragile fabric of a dress for someone who was of tiny proportions has been an everlasting memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This series of work was presented as part of the MA final degree show exhibition at UWE, Bower Ashton, Bristol in summer 2009, when we recreated Charlotte&#8217;s dress from our memories and imagination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1271 aligncenter\" title=\"montage3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lisasheppy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/montage3-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A garment is a wrapping that draws a person&#8217;s imprint; it is a relic which serves as a replacement. 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