14 March to 24 April 2005
Leaving the mayoral robes aside,
Lost & Found looked at the shifting silhouette of Melbourne's fashion – from council uniforms to civic balls, from royal visits to the 'crown jewels' of Moomba sovereigns and from fashion on the track to feverish footy fans.
Through this thematic filter of fashion and culture, Lost & Found explored and reinterpreted elements of the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection. It investigated social history with a physical reality, while blurring the boundaries between life and fiction, reality and art. The exhibition was part of the 2005 Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Curated by Katy Bowman and Neil Thomas
MoMO is an ephemeral museum created, collected and curated by Katy Bowman and Neil Thomas, in collaboration with local artists.
Manifesting for short periods in different settings, MoMO directs focus to the ordinary, the everyday and things that have been discarded, overlooked or are on the cusp of disappearing. It is a museum 'in process', committed to inquiry and discovery. It is a site-sensitive institution in a constant state of becoming.
Katy Bowman is a performing artist and a maker specialising in installation and visual theatre, with more than three decades' professional experience as a performer, devisor, designer and director.
Katy is acknowledged as an innovator and her work has been presented in a number of award-winning seasons, nationally and internationally. Katy is co-creator and director of MoMO with Neil Thomas.
Neil Thomas has an international reputation for innovative, exciting and highly successful public performance works. He has played theatre and street theatre for more than 20 years, and for the past 10 years has specialised in creating performance window installations and site-specific public art – including Blue Boys and the Urban Dream Capsule – in Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Lost & Found was a partnership with Loreal Fashion Week.