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ADELE VARCOE

contact: adele.varcoe@rmit.edu.au

Adele Varcoe is a SIAL postgraduate research student. Her research project entitled The Merging of Clothing and the Body investigates the opportunities for fashion when clothing merges with our physicality. The body is used as a material and as a site. Adele explores the characteristics and compatibilities of materials that challenge and question the relationship between clothing and the body.

When not at RMIT, Adele can be found making things and modifying skins in her traveling Tent. Her most recent project, Skin Sample, focuses on the characteristics of human skin whilst on the body. The project works closely with individuals to tailor their most intimate garment. It is not unusual when meeting Adele that she will fondle your skin and offer you a temporary change of clothes.

Adele has a degree in Fashion, and has worked with Bernhard Willhelm in Paris. Before embracing her postgraduate studies she worked as a special effects artist on a selection of B grade films. Alongside her research practice, Adele currently teaches within the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University.