Likita Marley is a Hobart-based freelance artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts (now Sydney University) and a Graduate Diploma of Education from Charles Sturt University. Likita is an experienced theatre designer and maker of both costumes and sets, and has worked for such organisations as The Marionette Theatre, Death Defying Circus and Legs on the Wall.
Her practice includes mixed media, installation and found objects. Objects from both the natural and built environments which evoke memories are woven together in personal stories. Likita’s recent foray has been into basket weaving, and she has employed this method to create the bodice of Peacock dress.
The dress is a reimagining the famous peacock dress of the 1900's as an homage to a bygone era of flamboyant luxury and excess. Likita is exploring how the physical material affects the shaping of functionality and form and the relationships that develop around their conception and use in an age of transformation and societal crisis.
Materials: Wrapping paper, tissue paper, holographic wrapping paper, metalic paper, dyed paper string, paper raffia, assorted art paper, coloured card, brown paper, newspaper, paper clay.
Plastic buckle, metal button, hook and eye, ribbon, florists wire, paint, glue.