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Bart Hess: Spotlight Curtain

Words by Alex Bec, Friday 18 March 2011

You’ll recognise Bart Hess’s name because of his brilliant costume collaboration project with Lucy McRae that was (very deservedly) featured all over the place not so long ago. Spotlight Curtain continues to aptly illustrate his dry witted output in the shape of a theatre curtain with a permanent ‘spotlight’ illusion. Undoubtedly the most nifty use of unbleached linen and pastel polyester I’ve ever seen.

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