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About the Art
A paper collage sculpture: Narielwalla makes collages from tailoring patterns. His Memento Mori series is made from discarded patterns of dead Savile Row customers. It is also the artist’s first three-dimensional series of collages. Each tailoring pattern is cut, bent, stapled and stuck to make unique three-dimensional form of a human skull. The skulls are presented reverentially in clear cases like preserved relics. Detritus from the making process of each skull litters the floor of its case
About the Artist
Hormazd Narielwalla is a collage maker working with tailoring patterns as raw source materials. His practice began in the workrooms of Savile Row tailors Dege & Skinner when he discovered they would discard sets of bespoke suit patterns upon death of their customers. They had no use without the…
Hormazd Narielwalla is a collage maker working with tailoring patterns as raw source materials. His practice began in the workrooms of Savile Row tailors Dege & Skinner when he discovered they would discard sets of bespoke suit patterns upon death of their customers. They had no use without the individual body. This prompted him to produce an artist book Dead Man’s Patterns (2008) which, was acquired by 25 institutions around UK and America including the Rare British Modern Collection at the British Library, National Art Library and the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. The book got the attention of Sir Paul Smith who sponsored Narielwalla’s first solo show Study on Anansi (2009) where he combined the patterns with western Africa folklore tales. In 2011 Benefactum publishers published his second book The Savile Row Cutter – the tailoring biography of master tailor Michael Skinner. Since then he has exhibited in other galleries-stores in London, Melbourne, Stockholm, Athens and the eminent Scope Art Fair in New York. Narielwalla was also commissioned by the Crafts Council, England to exhibit in their national touring exhibition Block Party (2011) and participate in the Project Space at Collect 2013, the international art fair for the contemporary object hosted at the Saatchi Gallery. Saatchi online magazine announced him as One-to-Watch.
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