Catalytic Clothing - HERSELF

Storey, Helen and Ryan, Tony (2010) Catalytic Clothing - HERSELF. [Art/Design Item]

HERSELF - Belfast	Detail of HERSELF	HERSELF - Ecover, Dubai
HERSELF - Comments board, Sheffie ...	HERSELF - Sheffield	HERSELF - Newcastle
HERSELF - Symposium	HERSELF

Type of Research:

Art/Design Item

Creators:

Storey, Helen and Ryan, Tony

Description:

Herself, a highly experimental, “couture” textile sculpture was first shown in October 2010 in Howard Street, Sheffield in conjunction with The University of Sheffield and Sheffield City Council. HERSELF is generation 1 of a series of cultural interventions, which will form the start of this long term, pioneering project Catalytic Clothing. Intended to illustrate in artistic form the idea that textiles can eliminate certain pollutants from the air so that we can breathe more beautifully.

Herself is potentially the world’s first air purifying dress.

Catalytic Clothing is a radical project that brings together the worlds of fashion and chemistry with the potential to clean the air we breathe. Employing existing technology in a new way, it seeks to explore how clothing and textiles can be used as a catalytic surface to purify air. It is the brainchild of artist and designer Professor Helen Storey (London College of Fashion) and chemist Professor Tony Ryan (University of Sheffield) – people from very different worlds whose minds have come together in highly successful art/science collaborations.

HERSELF appeared at The Change Initiative, a new concept aimed at building a global supply chain for sustainable products and solutions. The first one stop shop for sustainable goods and solutions opened in Dubai, UAE in April 2012. Innovative solutions to reduce human impact on the environment are demonstrated live in the store.

HERSELF alongside The Catalytic Clothing Story film was shown as part of the FUTUROTEXTILES 3 exhibitions.

The MPU of Herself was launched in a viral campaign in June 2011 - http://www.vimeo.com/24712284

Other Contributors:

Role	Name
Designer	Belford, Patricia
Director	Mufti, Adam
Actress	O'Connor, Erin

Additional Information (Publicly available):

Singapore Science Festival - Jointly organised by the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) and the Science Centre Singapore, the Singapore Science Festival is an annual national event celebrating the dynamism of science, engineering, technology and biomedicine. The Singapore Science Festival is Singapore’s biggest annual science event.

Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:

Dress, communication, technology, air purifying, climate, sustainability

Your affiliations with UAL:

Colleges > London College of Fashion
Research Centres/Networks > Centre for Sustainable Fashion

Date:

October 2010

Helen Storey

Funders:

EPSRC, Cristal Global, Ecover, Support in kind: Protein, University of Ulster, DED, University of Sheffield

Related Websites:

http://www.catalytic-clothing.org/home.html, http://www.ceti.com/en/news--futurotextiles-3, http://www.lille3000.eu/lille3000/en/event/futurotextiles-en-tournee, http://www.vimeo.com/24712284

Related Websites:

Projects or Series:

Catalytic Clothing

Locations / Venues:

Location	From Date	To Date
Howard Street, University of Sheffield, first public showing of the ‘world’s first air purifying dress	October 2010	October 2010
Newcastle University: King's Gate site, part of Newcastle ScienceFest	4 March 2011	11 April 2011
Ulster Arts and Design Festival, Belfast	9 June 2011	14 June 2011
Singapore Science Festival	22 July 2011	30 July 2011
Ecover Concept Store, Dubai	2 May 2012	23 August 2012
FUTUROTEXTILES 3 - CETI (The European Center for Innovative Textiles), Tourcoing, France	October 2012	October 2012
FUTUROTEXTILES 3 - CETI - Cite Des Sciences, Paris	February 2013	February 2013

Material/Media:

Textile

Date Deposited:

31 Jul 2012 13:57

Last Modified:

27 May 2016 15:35

Item ID:

5381

URI:

https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/5381

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