Guest Speaker: Kirsty Hassard
Join us for an evening discussion centred around new commissions created by artist Helen Cammock in response to the history of jute production in Dundee, and the life and work of activist and mill worker Mary Brooksbank (1897 - 1978). Curator Kirsty Hassard will discuss the making of jute and its role in the shaping of Dundee. This event will be introduce by DCA's Head of Exhibitions Tiffany Boyle, and will be followed by a short Q&A.
Kirsty Hassard is a curator and fashion historian. She is currently a curator in the exhibitions department of V&A Dundee, and previously worked in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department at V&A South Kensington. She was co-curator on Tartan, V&A Dundee's first major in-house exhibition.
She has worked on a range of exhibitions including Night Fever: Designing Club Culture (2021) and Mary Quant (2020) at V&A Dundee and Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion (2017) at V&A South Kensington. She has published on women and work, and the relationship between fashion and print culture in the 18th century.
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