WALKABOUT. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia December 2014.
TIME WITH JOAN is really excited to welcome Contributing Visual Director Virginia Dowzer, whom spends much of her time in her car.. a moving observatory window on life and her choice location for TIME WITH JOAN.
Virginia Dowzer and I have worked together for ten years on projects that maintain their longevity through the constant theme of 'beauty'. BEAUTY.. A combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. [Oxford Dictionary]
In occupying the better part of a day touring Melbourne making stops for 'drop off's' and garment changes, there was a lot of laughter and wonderful insight into the full gamut of drivers behind Virginia's personal theories on interest, inspiration, passion and the wonderment of beauty.
It is the 'gamut' that makes Virginia's work so full and exciting. The layers of complexity built and born from nature and nurture give Virginia's creativity it's third dimension.
'Whenever we said we were bored, our mother said, "Well go MAD and tear paper".. and literally we did!.. stacks of newspaper and we would tear it all up and make cubby houses in the hallway with it.'
'The most beautiful things that I have thought, that have taken my breath away are really in nature, it isn't really man made things at all. [And] I do think things are really beautiful that man has made, I can see the work that goes into them and things do take my breath away, but nature really takes my breath away.. it's unbelievable what happens in nature.. un-believable.'
Virginia Dowzer
virginiadowzer@bigpond.com
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Instagram - Virginia Dowzer
With thanks to
Adrian Lewis Jewellery
Audi Australia
Christine Accessories
Cose Ipanema
Kozminsky
Mark Douglass Design
Scanlan Theodore
City of Melbourne
I am Virginia Dowzer and I am a stylist.
I’ve dedicated my entire working lifetime to creatively exploring the potentials of visual communication, primarily in fashion but also working on projects, with fashion-related themes.
It is crucial to me that my work has a sense of wonderment and interest because of its complexities and balance - I want it to tell a story.
I don’t think that you should ever underestimate how much you can feed the mind visually and what richness that can bring …
Because most of all what I do and what I try to do is to create beauty.
Extract from the biography of Virginia Dowzer
TIME WITH JOAN is really excited to welcome Contributing Visual Director Virginia Dowzer, whom spends much of her time in her car.. a moving observatory window on life and her choice location for TIME WITH JOAN.
Virginia Dowzer and I have worked together for ten years on projects that maintain their longevity through the constant theme of 'beauty'. BEAUTY.. A combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. [Oxford Dictionary]
In occupying the better part of a day touring Melbourne making stops for 'drop off's' and garment changes, there was a lot of laughter and wonderful insight into the full gamut of drivers behind Virginia's personal theories on interest, inspiration, passion and the wonderment of beauty.
It is the 'gamut' that makes Virginia's work so full and exciting. The layers of complexity built and born from nature and nurture give Virginia's creativity it's third dimension.
'Whenever we said we were bored, our mother said, "Well go MAD and tear paper".. and literally we did!.. stacks of newspaper and we would tear it all up and make cubby houses in the hallway with it.'
'I do feel very deeply about visual communication and how people communicate visually. Every day I see [you know] keep my eyes open for things, new things.. people on the street, people walking along, the way that they present themselves...it's inspiring...quite often it's the people that don't try very hard that are the most inspirational to me.'
'My mother was very strict, she was very English. She was very strict in terms of [um] what we were allowed to engage with when we were young.. so it was very much growing up in the 70's in a, I guess you would call it a "bohemian" environment really'.
'The most beautiful things that I have thought, that have taken my breath away are really in nature, it isn't really man made things at all. [And] I do think things are really beautiful that man has made, I can see the work that goes into them and things do take my breath away, but nature really takes my breath away.. it's unbelievable what happens in nature.. un-believable.'
'I have so many theories about different things, and usually my theories... usually they are right [and] but I observe lots of things that a lot of people don't and I guess that I do think a lot about those things.'
'I have a thing when I go to the ballet, that the ballerinas are all lined up and they move in unison and they are in exactly the same timing.. I will still burst into tears.. because to me it's such perfection, split second timing, in order for that to happen it takes such huge amounts of work and so when I look at that and when that happens on stage, that's something that will make me incredibly emotional.. because I guess, of the back end of how you actually achieve that.'
'When I lay out my table I always [ah] make sure that it looks what I call "Haptic". When something is "Haptic" you want to touch it and it is so covetable that you almost have to put your hands on it.. I used to get angry when people put their hands on it but now I realise, actually it's something people can't help doing...'
'I am genuinely interested in [I guess] the science of life.'
virginiadowzer@bigpond.com
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Instagram - Virginia Dowzer
With thanks to
Adrian Lewis Jewellery
Audi Australia
Christine Accessories
Cose Ipanema
Kozminsky
Mark Douglass Design
Scanlan Theodore
City of Melbourne
