Wearable Biology -- Snout Collection

PrizeOfficial Selection in Use (product)
CompanyEmer Roberts Design
ArtistEmer Roberts
CategoryProfessional
Design TeamEmer Roberts
CreditDoreen Kilfeather Photography

Commemorating the Zodiacal Year of the (Metal) Rat 2020, Wearable Biology—Snout Collection spans a synchronistic journey, reimagining medieval chainmail as couture jewellery, onto the present pandemic and the unfolding of a “Disunited States” through the evocation of a medieval plague doctor mask, visually synonymous with the conical shaped hat of the KKK. Moving to a conceptual focus upon chain solely, my most recent work within the collection is a 2020 pest-inflected critique of the medieval Scold’s Bridle, which colonially morphed into the Iron Bit or Gag: a barbaric slavery mask.