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TALKING TARTAN: NICHOLAS DALEY, OLUBIYI THOMAS AND FERREN GIPSON

  • Juniper Auditorium V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ (map)

Jamaican-Scottish designer Nicholas Daley and Lagos-born, Glasgow-raised, London-based designer Olubiyi Thomas both create garments that embrace tartan’s global roots. Join art historian, writer, and artist Ferren Gipson to untangle the stories and ideas that underpin both designers work, unpacking their relationship with tartan.

From a tartan that draws on the shared colour scheme of the Nigerian flag and Glasgow’s Celtic football club to reflect cross-cultural identity, to a kilt ensemble that unpacks the cultural legacies of madras and tartan – both designers use the textile to explore intertwined ideas of identity, kinship and heritage to celebrate contemporary multiculturalism.

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