March: 2020. Drawing from a collection of homemade garments, Joanne Richardson styles outfits following advice from a tweet suggesting five eccentric characters. After decades of modifying and sewing garments, there were options for all but one. Only “opulent slum queen” needed to be created in full. The featured version was inspired by the daily reading of Xavier De Maistre’s A Journey Round My Room. In which he warns; do not underestimate the influence of clothing on the mind of the wearer!

Joanne Richardson creates drawings and sculptural works incorporating DIY methods and humble materials to create whimsical disruptions. Richardson’s PhD work (Curtin University 2017) titled: ‘Resolutely Inclusive: Merz Art Practice and Einfuhlung’ is long but has many pictures and explores art practice as activity, weaving links between everyday life and art concerns. She currently works as a Sessional Academic in the School of Media Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.