Tarryn Handcock

About

Dr. Tarryn Handcock is a cross-disciplinary designer, artist and fashion academic whose creative practice research explores how artefacts and materials, knowledges and experiences are produced through relationships within particular sites, spaces and places. Tarryn's site-specific practice brings together embodied and situated approaches to address qualities of ‘wear and where’. Current work investigates making, walking, gardening and curating as methods to reveal relational networks, enable urban citizenry and knowledge sharing, for the benefit of human and more-than-human communities and cultures in place. Projects include 'Growing Waa Weelum', which proposes the value of plant dye gardens for growing biodiversity, cultural awareness, and environmenal responsibility in tertiary fashion a