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Created as part of the OUTER WEAR 2024 series, this limited edition print is signed and numbered by the artist. The original illustration is drawn in watercolour, pastel + pencil. The limited edition print is produced on Ilford Gallerie textured 310gsm cotton rag with a 1cm border and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

This limited edition print is part of CARLOTTA HEY's new series called OUTER WEAR 2024.
A number of artworks that celebrate clothing as a form of self-representation, every costume tells a story about the wearer. In this age of heightened self-consciousness, clothes make a statement before a person verbally communicates…

With a background in fashion design and styling, HEY is intimately familiar with the way the human body is a vehicle for communication – “there is so much to discover about the human body by simply looking at it closely”, she says. The artist ensures that the body and its accoutrements take centre stage through her compositional choices, maintaining a limited colour palette alongside the judicious use of negative space. This gives her room to conjure the texture of materials, with the familiar sensations of a down jacket’s springy give, leather’s soft sheen or the sharp gloss of a raincoat.

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Melbourne based creative Carlotta Hey has had a long and extensive career in the fashion industry.

Originally from Europe with a background in product & fashion design, Carlotta spent the last two decades designing for the fashion industry; she has worked with one of the largest European chain stores and an iconic denim label in Australia until venturing out into her own creative label.

Her artworks are a representation of her interest in the human and feminine form. She tries to capture the presence of her subjects and entices you into their world.
At present Carlotta is focusing mostly on fashion illustrations, -
Clothing is a profoundly personal form of self-expression, the human body with its clothes is a vehicle for communication. Carlotta ensures that the body and its accoutrements take centre stage through her compositional choices and muted colour palette, this gives room to conjure the texture of the materials while conveying all the emotions of the subject.
A mix of emotions finds its way into her art. It serves as a mirror to the viewer and lives in the eye of those who look at it, leaving it up to the viewer to interpret what they are seeing and what they might feel by looking at it.

Carlotta’s ambition is to take her fashion illustration background to a larger format, blurring the lines between traditional Fashion Illustration and Fine Art, exploring new horizons…

She currently lives and works from her studio in Beaumaris, Australia.

Instagram: carlottahey
Website: www.carlottahey.com.au