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, pencil, ink, metallic spray paint, crayon, sequins, foil and fabric swatches on paper pasted on card |
| Brief description | Costume design by Joyce Conwy Evans for the chorus of Merry-Makers in Act I of Jacques Offenbach's opera bouffe La Perichole, London Opera Centre production at Sadler's Wells, 1973 |
| Physical description | Full length female figure with arms out stretched wearing a fringed triangular kaftan over a full length gathered skirt, both garments striped in orange and pale purple. On her head an elaborate turban striped in the same colours. Around her neck is a series of necklaces in 'gold' highlighted in silver foil and five sequins are used to represent pieces of jewellery. Fabric samples attached with a pin. Patches of gold spray-painted stencil design (doily used as a stencil) cover the whole. Design pasted on to a thin white card. |
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| Credit line | Given by Patricia Fara in memory of Stephen and Helen Fenlaugh |
| Object history | Costume designed for the chorus of Merry-Makers 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.62-2007 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2009 |
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