Tracing lace, 2016-17, it is the first Couture installation at the artist’s Haymerle Road SPACE Studio, London, September 2017. The drawings are based on hand-knitted lace and machine-lace fabric, trimming and embroideries from family archive, gifts and recent acquisitions. Graphite pencils; shellac gum ink; Washi (Japanese paper), Koso (mulberry); Arches watercolour cotton paper and others; threads, glass-headed steel pins, steel pins, bamboo canes.
Tracing lace, 2017. Studio installation.
Graphite pencils; shellac gum ink; Washi (Japanese paper), Koso (mulberry); Arches watercolour cotton paper and others; threads, glass-headed steel pins, steel pins, bamboo canes.
Marguerite, 2017. Drawing. Pencil on paper. Based on lace border from Paulette Dupré’s archive. 1mH x 0m66W.
Beau Monde Lace, 2017. Drawing. Overlapping length of mulberry paper, lead pencil, ink. Drawing based on a soft-corded French Leavers lace fabric from Beau Monde collection. 1m64H x 0m60W
Bermondsey Lace, 2017. Installation. Paper, mulberry paper, lead pencil, ink, glass headed pins, thread, bamboo cane. Drawing in two sections, based on an early 20th century camisole fragment, machine-made wide embroidered tulle, purchased in Bermondsey market. 1m52H x 1m21W and 0m97H x 0m43W.
Françoise Dupré 