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Heidi McEvoy-Swift is a textile artist and theatre costume practitioner. Trained at Central School of Art, she also works as designer and artist educator.
In August Heidi curated the exhibition Life after life...afterlife? at Arts University Bournemouth.
This exhibition presents work exploring traces of use and embodied performance in five costumes taken from the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds costume store. The exhibition re-contextualises the garments as both media for creation, and objects suffused with history. Embedded within these costumes are the stories of the designers, makers and actors whose work and interaction with the garments is examined.