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Fashion designers and collaborators Linda Jackson (b. 1950) and Jenny Kee (b. 1947) are photographed in their much-loved retail store, Flamingo Park in Sydney’s Strand Arcade, just after it opened in 1973. Icons of Australian fashion, their style eschewed trends and instead drew on local and international art and culture through exuberant shapes and colours.
In the photograph, Jackson, another Prahran Technical College alumna, greets the camera in her ‘70s peaked hat and high-waisted summer outfit, while Kee speaks on the telephone in the background, her hand casually resting in her blazer pocket. Between the indoor plant, the racks of patterned clothing and the sculpted swan, there is a dynamism and playful ebullience in keeping with the fashion that Jackson and Kee pioneered.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Mrs Joy Jerrems 1981.
© The Estate of Carol Jerrems
from Saturday 30 November 2024
Carol Jerrems: Portraits is a major exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential photographers. Jerrems’ intimate portraits of friends, lovers and artistic peers transcend the purely personal and have come to shape Australian visual culture.
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