Pleats Please

Pleats please is a graphite drawing of a collage I constructed from fashion magazines a few years back. I took fashion magazines that are intended for commerce and articulated for a particular type of viewer and reconstructed it, which immediately destroys its relevance in the fashion world. Does this mean that it can now only be considered an art image? Or does photography as a medium have the ability to maintain the connection between both worlds? Asking myself these questions has led me to replicate my collage into a graphite drawing. And perhaps through this transition into a new medium, it now visually and conceptually reside in the realm of art.

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Torinne Zach is a Brisbane based artist specialising in graphite drawing and fine art photography. In 2015, Torinne completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art and currently works as a practicing artist and photographer. Across both disciplines, the interconnection between fashion and art, and its inspiration and tension that it draws from one another is a prominent concept Torinne investigates in her work.
Torinne's delicate touch to graphite drawing combined with her fragmented composition and negative space, creates an interesting image that investigates the tension between representation and materiality. Her photography practice is also highly influenced by alluring aesthetics through visual richness and often attempts to find a middle ground between a fashion and fine art image. The relationship between representation, subject, artist and viewer remain an integral part of the concept.