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Incandescent Flight - Student project

Land and city regenerate after bush fires, as birds return. Memories of the healing land show this re-emergence. After each natural disaster ravages the land, people congregate, forming tribes to heal damaged places. The city remains scarred, but is healed.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Helen Wojtas


Specialization: other
Disciplines: Costumier
Additional information: Giorgia Santacaterina, Bryanna Price and Helen Wojtas are all third year costume students from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. All three have lived around the world, in Italy, Singapore, England and Australia, and have settled in Perth, Australia. Drawing from cosplay and academic backgrounds, all three are currently training as costumiers hoping to work in film, period wear and dance respectively. All three have been sewing since primary school, and have recently started designing to enhance and support their skill sets. The three came together for this project through their shared love of the beauty and colour of Australian bird life. Through the design process, they were inspired by their experiences of the Australian landscape and the interactions with birds. Helen personally experienced a severe bushfire when she was eighteen, and this has heavily influenced her relationship with the Australian land and healing cities.
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• Giorgia Santacaterina


Additional information: Giorgia Santacaterina, Bryanna Price and Helen Wojtas are all third year costume students from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. All three have lived around the world, in Italy, Singapore, England and Australia, and have settled in Perth, Australia. Drawing from cosplay and academic backgrounds, all three are currently training as costumiers hoping to work in film, period wear and dance respectively. All three have been sewing since primary school, and have recently started designing to enhance and support their skill sets. The three came together for this project through their shared love of the beauty and colour of Australian bird life. Through the design process, they were inspired by their experiences of the Australian landscape and the interactions with birds. Helen personally experienced a severe bushfire when she was eighteen, and this has heavily influenced her relationship with the Australian land and healing cities.
• Bryanna Price


Additional information: Giorgia Santacaterina, Bryanna Price and Helen Wojtas are all third year costume students from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. All three have lived around the world, in Italy, Singapore, England and Australia, and have settled in Perth, Australia. Drawing from cosplay and academic backgrounds, all three are currently training as costumiers hoping to work in film, period wear and dance respectively. All three have been sewing since primary school, and have recently started designing to enhance and support their skill sets. The three came together for this project through their shared love of the beauty and colour of Australian bird life. Through the design process, they were inspired by their experiences of the Australian landscape and the interactions with birds. Helen personally experienced a severe bushfire when she was eighteen, and this has heavily influenced her relationship with the Australian land and healing cities.