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LIFESTYLE • ART

LINDA JACKSON
A Love Affair with the Tropics
Linda Jackson is a leading fashion
designer whose 40-year career has
shaped and defined contemporary
Australian fashion. Tropical Design is
an exhibition tracing Jackson’s love of
the tropics including India, Africa, Asia
and Australia. For a number of years
she lived and worked in Port Douglas
and Cooya Beach where she worked on
arts projects with local communities
until 2011.
To heighten the drama of her
exquisitely patterned fabrics, Jackson
has cut and sewn them into simple
poncho and tunic styled garments that
are designed to be worn in layers to
allow the colours, textures and designs
of each fabric to live. Together they pay
homage to her passion for the tropics,
its flora, fauna and way of living.

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IMAGE ABOVE LEFT IMAGE RIGHT
David HOCKNEY Linda JACKSON
A diver, paper pool 17 1978 Heliconia poncho 1987
twelve sheets of hand- handprint on cotton
coloured, pressed paper pulp 108 x 124 cm
National Gallery of Courtesy of the artist
Australia, Canberra Photo: Blueclick
Purchased 1979, © David Photography
Hockney
IMAGE BELOW
IMAGE LEFT Linda JACKSON
Leonce Raphael ANTHIRIUM FLOWERS
AGBODJELOU Poncho, 1987
Untitled (Musclemen Club Tropical Resort Port
series) 2012 Douglas.
digital print Linda Jackson handprint
118.9 x 84.1 cm Strike off colours.
Courtesy of the artist and 90 x 120 cms
Jack Bell Gallery, London, Photo: Michael Marzik
UK

DAVID HOCKNEY: PRINTS IS A NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA TRAVELLING EXHIBITION Linda Jackson exclusive merchandise available in the Gallery Shop.

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