Peter Pilotto and Francis Upritchard
Arch
figure: modelling material, wire, filling, fabric, plastic and glass beads
plinth: brass, steel and wood
figure: 13¾ x 11 x 24¾in. (35 x 28 x 63cm.)
plinth: 55½ x 37 ⅜ x 19⅝in. (141 x 95 x 50cm.)
Executed in 2012, this work was commissioned for the Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion festival.

Provenance:
Britain Creates Fashion Arts Foundation Charity Gala, London, June 2012.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited:
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Britain Creates 2012: Fashion & Art Collusion, 2012 (poster illustrated in colour, unpaged).

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Specialist Notes:

Exploring the notion of shared authorship, Arch is the result of the collaboration between two disciplines, born from the joint conception and execution of fashion designer Peter Pilotto and visual artist Francis Upritchard. In the acrobatically lithe figure, it is possible to trace the marriage of the sculptural shapes and colourful designs of Pilotto’s fashion designs with Upritchard’s practice of creating bright coloured human figures.

Arch was commissioned for ‘Britain Creates 2012: Fashion + Art Collusion’ a special project by the British Fashion Council and the BAZAAR Fashion Arts Foundation to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. ‘Collusion’ aimed to foster the dialogue between designers and artists, who by working together, defied the boundary between fashion and art.

Upritchard and Pilotto took this prompt even further, extending their collaboration to Christopher de Vos, Pilotto’s design partner and to furniture designer Martino Gamper, Upritchard’s husband. Rather than working simultaneously on the piece, they passed it from one to another, so that each could add an element. With this practice they explored the concept of evolution, authenticity and authorship.

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