Museum of Wearable Art
MOWA
The Museum Of Wearable Art (MOWA), is a historical collection consisting of the acquisition awards from most of ART ON LEGS wearable art competitions held during the first decade of this century, along with a selection of outstanding and significant garments from leading Australian and New Zealand fibre artists. The title for MOWA’s exhibition is; “A bit of wearable art, art to wear, fashion, trashion, and hate couture”
Several garments in the collection come from the WOW museum (The World of Wearable Art) which started in Nelson, New Zealand and was the inspiration for Rossy Roberts-Thompson to create MOWA which she hopes will be a lasting legacy of the acceptance of fibre art into the wider visual arts genre.
Rossy sees herself as a creative visionary and has been arts inspired and creative all her life, delving into pottery, sculptural and collage works, floral art, installations, paintings, and fibre art. She has a Diploma of Art , Craft and Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University Of Tasmania. She created and directed Art on Legs (formerly Australia's Fashion Fantasia) for over 10 years and ran a Gallery and Arts Cafe in Salamanca Square after early retirement.
Rossy's Art paintings and knitting is also available on site, along with a collection of pottery, glass, paintings, wood and fibre art articles and a collection of over 200 kimonos for sale.
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Located at | 2768 Huon Hwy HUONVILLE
Rossy's ART HOUSE is at 2768 Huon Highway Travelling south from Huonville, go over the bridge and just past the new subdivision on the right there is a road frontage garden with red flags flying. Just after the speed change sign for 80 there is a large electricity pylon and a roadside stall where you return right off the highway and double back on the gravel drive which heads up the hill. MOWA (Museum of Wearable Art ) is on the right halfway up the hill adjacent to the paddocks.
Parking is available at the entrance, Further up the hill on the right there is parking for Gallery in the Square and Bushnook studio on the lower floor of the two-story ART HOUSE.
