Kate Plumtree - Worn to Be WildWorn to be Wild at Mottisfont Abbey, 14 July - 16 September 2012

An installation by UK textile artist and costume designer Kate Plumtree. She's created extraordinary couture dresses inspired by British wildlife, including a night-time urban fox and a stunning kingfisher.

Kate Plumtree is a fashion designer and theatre Costume Maker for the ENO and West End shows in London, previously the RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon and this touring collection is part fashion, part costume, part photography, part installation-art.

Ranging from an Elizabethan Grebe, Medieval Red Deer, a twenties Kingfisher, a balletic fairy tale swan, and a Tudor Badger these flights of fancy make for a lively, tangible exhibit. Read more of this post