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Exhibition: Fashion Footprints

Fashion Footprints: Sustainable Approaches is a groundbreaking concept devised by CCANW and graduates from the MA Fashion and the Environment at London College of Fashion.

The pioneering exhibition explores the idea of fashion and textiles acting as an interface between humankind and the environment. It combines accessible illustrated display panels and representative garments and aims to highlight the key problems and major environmental and social impacts that result from the fashion and textile industries. The project considers realistic solutions embedded in existing practice, and seeks to dispel the ambivalence that is so often associated with fashion and sustainability.

Portable Pelt 2009 by Tara Baoth Mooney

‘Portable Pelt’ 2009 by Tara Baoth Mooney, one of the curators of CCANW’s Fashion Footprints exhibition (Photograph Sean Michael).

Fashion Footprints encompasses an exhibition that unravels the highly complex world of fashion and its ecological and social impact - from the cotton field to your wardrobe – as well as a slow fashion festival, an experimental ‘eco-fashion show in the forest’, featuring some of the UK’s brightest young sustainable fashion designers, and hands on sustainable fashion and textiles workshops. As part of Fashion Footprints, CCANW is also organising a Wool Forum in September and a conference in early November featuring some of the most important names in sustainable fashion in the UK.

Visitors can gain an insight into how their every day actions can collectively build a more sustainable future. Based on Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys by Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion, the four month Fashion Footprints project explores all of the major challenges in fashion and offers realistic solutions. It includes garments - from a pioneering design that displays a reduced waste premise to a hand-me-down and cherished piece - that identify with quality and challenge today’s speed of consumption which leads to millions of tonnes of textile waste being dumped in landfill sites around the UK and abroad.

Cape by Michelle Lowe Holder, dress by Minna Hepburn (Photograph J.P.Carvalho).

CCANW would like to thank its funders, Arts Council England, Devon County Council, Self Heal Association, Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund and Greater Dartmoor LEAF as well as its 'Magnificent 8' exhibition panel sponsors:

Drytac Europe Ltd www.drytac.co.uk    Earthscan www.earthscan.co.uk    Greenfibres www.greenfibres.com    Heath Lambert www.heathlambert.com   Mike Wye & Associates www.mikewye.co.uk    N3 Graphic Design www.n3display.co.uk    Think IT www.thinkit.uk.com    People Tree www.peopletree.co.uk

CCANW's August 2010-February 2011 brochure now available

Please click here to download a pdf copy of our latest brochure covering the Summer/Autumn period.

Fundraiser: Online Art Auction

Nicole Mackinlay Hahn is showing work in CCANW's Fashion Footprints exhibition, and she is one of a number of artists who have generously offered works to benefit CCANW's fundraising efforts.

Nicole's work Sew Much to Smile About, is an archival C-print made in an edition of five. In this video still, a Malagasy woman is smiling while embroidering lace. Her smile represents handmade pleasure from Madagascar, and the cultural capital throughout Africa. See also Nicole's own blog for some more information on the work.

Nicole Mackinlay Hahn: Sew Much to Smile About, archival C-print, 25.5 x 43cm, from an edition of five 

 

The reserve for the work is £200. Bids should preferably be made by email from 1 August - to info@ccanw.co.uk - and the current bid will be displayed on our website (bidders names will not be displayed). The highest bid for each piece received by noon 30 September secures the work.

Current bid: £50 

 

Haldon Forest Park

The Forestry Commission's pioneering activity trails at Haldon provide 20 miles of safe, off-road access for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, including play and sensory trails. The Forest lies on a ridge south of Exeter and dominates the skyline for miles around. It covers an area of 3500 acres (1400 hectares) mostly planted with coniferous woodland, but encompassing areas of broadleaved trees, streams and dramatic views to Dartmoor, Exeter and the Exe estuary.

Other attractions in Haldon Forest Park:

Forestry Commission events

The Forestry Commission also runs a wide variety of events at Haldon. Details are listed in their South West events programme available from the Rangers Office. Events booking on 01392 834233. See also: www.forestry.gov.uk/haldonforestpark

Adventure Course: Go Ape

Go Ape is an award-wining high wire forest adventure course at Haldon. Details and booking online www.goape.co.uk or call 0845 6439215.

Forest Cycle Hire

You can now hire your bike and take full advantage of Haldon's several new cycle trails. Open all year, near to the Rangers Office. Booking 01392 833768.

The Ridge Café

Open 7 days a week.

Lottery FundedCentre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World Co.Ltd.

Registered in England 4141506. Charity no.1092019

Directors: Peter Young, chair, Phil Collins, Charlotte Rathbone, Jem Southam, Tristram Besterman, Rick Bond, Dave Pritchard, Emma Rothwell

CCANW is pleased to acknowledge support for its 2010-11 programme from Arts Council England, Devon County Council, Self Heal Association, Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund, Forestry Commission and Greater Dartmoor LEAF, incorporating funding from the EU, Defra, SWRDA and Leader.