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24 May 2012

Chaos and ecstacy

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Brittany O’Hara holds Max Butler’s latest Dionysus-inspired test design.

Brittany O’Hara holds Max Butler’s latest Dionysus-inspired test design.

DESIGN students are busy making 31 one-off scarves with a brief to marry theatre and textiles. The scarves are to be auctioned to fundraise for new furnishings at Downstage Theatre.
Brittany O’Hara is a third-year Massey University design student.
“Some of the students have used the architecture of Downstage as inspiration, but I used movement translated into splashes of colour. We’ve definitely tried to abstract it. There’re no happy-sad Harlequin faces,” she says.
Sole male student Max Butler has traveled back to the origins of theatre, which began as a celebration of Dionysus, the Greek God of wine, ritual madness and ecstasy. His design may look bright, but dark accents make reference to the god’s darker side – the part in charge of chaos mongering and “suffering the effects of too many drinks.”
The process they are using is called Sublimat, where a paper design in transferred to fabric with a heat press. Once pressed, the paper design will not look the same. Judgement day is approaching, and students will soon place their final designs between the jaws of the press and wait with bated breath to see what comes out.
Flourish, Thistle Hall, October 12-17. Auction at Downstage Theatre October 18. 

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