2023 Gallery
Award: Installation Design
National Gallery of Victoria for Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse
Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse celebrates the conceptual and technical virtuosity of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, offering insight into his creative processes and far-reaching sources of inspiration. Showcasing over 120 garments and accessories alongside displays of over eighty artworks that help illuminate the interdisciplinary impulse that defined his career.
Jury Citation
This exhibition is an absolute triumph for the Alexander McQueen brand, which has been successfully transformed into a physical manifestation. Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse is an orchestrated moment in time that feels thrilling, experimental and like a true intersection of fashion, architecture and theatre colliding. There’s a strong focus on figurative curation and vivid imagination and the jury commended the project for its contribution to Melbourne design culture. One of the most convincing things about this installation is that it is very specific to the subject of the exhibition, which makes for a holistic composition and experience. Its other strengths are the sequencing of spaces, a different array of treatments and the overall juxtaposition between contrasting light and materiality that serves to frame each of the pieces on show.
