Peter tully biography
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An Era that Changed Us
By Judith Pugh
| May 26, 2019
Paul Craft, who is one of the stars of Sally Gray’s 'Friends, Fashion and Fabulousness', wondered to me why Gray’s account of the effervescent 1970s Australian cocktail of change wasn’t better known. It is a question. With applause from senior figures in the Fine and the Applied Arts, one might have expected it to be shortlisted for prizes.
Published in 2017, subtitled The Making of an Australian Style, it’s a paperback, the cover a soft mauvey-pink: maybe it needed a visual to be noticed by fashion magazines and editors of the style sections in daily papers. The pink, the paperback, and the subject suggest it will carry like an airport novel, but its mass is surprising. And as the recommendations from Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator of International Art at the NGV, Professor Peter McNeil from Design History at UTS, and Roger Leong, the Senior Curator of Fashion at the Sydney Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences indicate, the book is also surprising.
This is not simply another chatty account of the period, which has been revisited and celebrated by those who lived in it, and researched and examined in exhibitions and on film. It is a story of intelligent creative friends, encouraging one another energet
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Birthdays: Peter Tully, pioneering Mardi Gras esthetic director
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Powerhouse Museum, ’99/6/12 Outfit, womens, 'Mondrian collection’, dress/belt/hat/earrings, cotton/plastic/metal, designed by Linda Jackson and Peter Tully, Australia, 1975’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
http://from.ph/167376Powerhouse Museum, ’99/6/14 Outfit, womens, top/pants/hat/cardigan/shoes/brooch/earring, nylon/wool/plastic/metal, designed by Linda Jackson, Jenny Kee, Vivienne Westwood and Peter Tully, Australia/England, 1976’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
http://from.ph/167386Powerhouse Museum, ’95/107/1 Shoes, pair, mens, plastic/leather/glass, Gold-Top Shoe Co / decorated by Peter Tully, Sydney, Australia, c.1990’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
http://from.ph/142229Powerhouse Museum, 'A7535 Necklace, “Zen Zen Zen”, glass/acrylic/enamel paint, Peter Tully, Australia, c. 1980.’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
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