NEW EXHIBITION AT DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY
Fashion Fancies: Textiles from the Moon Collection,
DCC Permanent Collection Exhibition
Curated by Dunja Rmandic, Curator of Collections, Devonport Regional Gallery
28 JUNE – 10 AUGUST
OPENING FRIDAY 27 JUNE, 6 PM
GUEST SPEAKER, GERARD VAUGHAN, PROFESSOR AT AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY (FORMER DIRECTOR NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA)
On 27 June Devonport Regional Gallery will present Fashion Fancies: Textiles from the Moon Collection, DCC Permanent Collection Exhibition. Curated by Dunja Rmandic, the exhibition will showcase a selection of textiles and dresses acquired from the Moon family in 1980. It will also mark the completion of the Gallery’s Permanent Collection relocation into its purpose-built and state-of-the-art storage facility. Fashion Fancies is the first exhibition curated from the new facility.
The exhibition brings together fine examples of historic dresses from the Moon Collection. Originally trade merchants from Scotland, the Moon family lived in Devonport from the 1880s until the 1970s. As philanthropists, socialites and farmers, they were very active in the local community and had an eye for collecting. The dresses on display come from Scotland and Australia and attest to the fine art of dressing-up throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The oldest dress dates from 1840–1860, and the most recent around the 1940s.
Dunja Rmandic will be presenting a talk on Saturday 28 June at midday.
Ladies’ Ball Dress
Scotland, 1892–1901
Skirt and bodice
Machine and hand stitched Japanese silk, lace, silk organza, glass and metal beading and sequins, plastic pearls, diamantes, cotton lining, boning, eye hooks
Bequeathed to Devonport Regional Gallery from the Misses Moon Estate, 1980
Ladies’ Dress
1930s –1940s
Satin, cotton netting, velvet, metal and cotton embroidery, zip
Bequeathed to Devonport Regional Gallery from the Misses Moon Estate, 1980
Ladies’ Ball Dress
Franke, Stuart, Melbourne
1940s
Satin, cotton netting, flocking, zip, eye hook
Bequeathed to Devonport Regional Gallery from the Misses Moon Estate, 1980
Devonport Regional Art Gallery
