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Simon Costin
Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description
- A brooch in fitted box
brooch and box signed, `Simon Costin, 1987'
- brooch, 10cm.long;
- 4in.
a rodent skull decorated with glass beads, shells and feathers to form a bird-like mask, the marbled paper box lined in silk and inscribed, `May your soul be blessed for it is corrupt!'
Provenance
`Curioser and Curioser'. An Album for an exhibition by Simon Costin, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London.
Catalogue Note
As a young graduate in 1985, Simon Costin worked with Derek Jarman on the film `The Angelic Conversion'. Through Jarman, he was introduced to the costume designer Sandy Powell. Alexander McQueen met Costin while he was working with jewellery and was eventually persuaded to abandon his white catwalks in favour of Costin's conceptually ambitious art direction. In addition to McQueen, Costin has attracted many leading fashion designers including Chloe, Cacharel and Roberto Cavalli.
Costin's work as a photographer is based around manipulated, and disturbing, images of himself. He explains that he uses himself as a model as `no-one would allow me to set them on fire'.
See also lot 293.