Grayson Perry, 'Artist's Robe' (2004), courtesy Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Galler
Dear Shaded Viewers,
This exhibition includes the work of 30 leading international practitioners that use clothing as a mechanism to communicate and reveal elements of our identity. Artists include:
Marina Abramovi?, Andreas Gursky, Claudia Losi, Susie MacMurray, La Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Yoko Ono, Grayson Perry, Dai Rees, Cindy Sherman, Helen Storey, Rosemarie Trockel, Sharif Waked, Gillian Wearing RA, Yohji Yamamoto and Andrea Zittel.
Also on display are new works by Yinka Shonibare and Hussein Chalayan, commissioned especially for Aware by London College of Fashion and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hussein Chalayan presents a new dress inspired by the 300 year old Japanese tradition of Bunraku puppet theatre while Yinka Shonibare has worked with bespoke tailor Chris Stevens to create 18 designs based on 19th-century children
