Costume Design
Costume Design
1973 (drawn)
1973 (drawn)
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Textile and tapestry designer Joyce Conwy Evans has designed settings and costumes for a number of small scale opera companies. Her costume designs are impressionistic, suggesting the desired effect rather than the detail, and the use of spray painted backgrounds and a range of artists' materials give her brightly coloured designs for La Perichole the quality of contemporary fabric collages.
Object details
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| Title | Costume Design (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Paint, wax, pencil, ink, metallic spray paint, crayon, sequin and fabric swatches on card |
| Brief description | Costume design by Joyce Conwy Evans for the Second Notary in Act I of Jacques Offenbach's opera bouffe La Perichole, London Opera Centre production at Sadler's Wells, 1973 |
| Physical description | On thin white card, a full length figure in tattered clerical dress with white bands at neck, full white shirt sleeves and black knee breeches. A gold seal on fuschia ribbon around the neck and sealed scroll in hand. Black cap and pince-nez. A single sequin used to represent a ring on the finger. Fabric samples attached by pin. Patches of silver spray-painted stencil design (doily used as stencil) cover the whole. |
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| Credit line | Given by Patricia Fara in memory of Stephen and Helen Fenlaugh |
| Object history | Costume design by Joyce Conwy Evans for the Second Notary in Act I of Jacques Offenbach's opera bouffe La Perichole, London Opera Centre production at Sadler's Wells, 1973 |
| Literary reference | <i>La Perichole</i> |
| Summary | Textile and tapestry designer Joyce Conwy Evans has designed settings and costumes for a number of small scale opera companies. Her costume designs are impressionistic, suggesting the desired effect rather than the detail, and the use of spray painted backgrounds and a range of artists' materials give her brightly coloured designs for La Perichole the quality of contemporary fabric collages. |
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| Accession number | S.63-2007 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2009 |
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