Genevieve Elliott works with materials the way some people work with sentences - cutting, rearranging, and letting chance have its say. Deconstruction and indeterminacy sit somewhere in the room, offering suggestions, while the body negotiates its role as both support structure and storyteller. Fabrics are primed like canvases, accessories misbehave as sculptural objects, and garments emerge from a process that’s equal parts research, intuition, and mischief. She likes it when things don’t sit quite right - when function and ornament blur, when old materials find new lives, when a truth to materials becomes a beautiful lie. At its core, her work leans into the contradictions of being human - messy, layered, and endlessly in flux.
Genevieve Elliott is a fashion designer and artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (Sculpture and Spatial Practice) (Victorian College of the Arts) and a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion (Design) (RMIT) (Akademie Mode und Design).
I would like to acknowledge First Peoples as the first artists, the first storytellers, the first communities and the first creators of culture, and the Traditional Owners and Elders whose stories and experiences are the heart of the lands of which I practice, the Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation.
