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Discussing the works in the Ceramic Contemporaries 4 exhibition Knowledge and Understanding: Different Ways of Working These dress skeletons are made up of casts of container lids strung together. Fiona Meagher is fascinated by the way people collect objects, and by how quite ordinary items can become more interesting as part of a collection. She thought about ‘the burden of carrying around everything you collect, and so came to making garments: heavy and confining, yet alluring, even captivating.’ At the same time, the dress form itself raises questions of gender and identity. (This work also offers stimulating possibilities for innovative costume design.) Fiona Meagher Lid Dresses Material: porcelain and bone china Technique: slip cast and constructed