Andrea Galer's Power of Hands Exhibition

If you are in the UK and you don't know what to do with your time waiting for the new Jane Eyre from the BBC (incidentally Brontëana has posted about a possible screening next September in the BFI), maybe you would like to know that Andrea Galer, the costume designer of the production, has some of her creations on display this summer:

Exhibitions 2006

Fenton House, London
Summer 2006

Costumes from Bleak House 2nd August - end October

Power of Hands
The exhibitions at Fenton House, London this summer include 3 special events raising money for Power of Hands.

Haddon Hall - a display promoting the Power of Hands work and linking to Jane Eyre is currently on show.

Exhibitions with The National Trust have allowed Andrea’s passionate belief that using film as a means of education can become a major series of costume exhibitions linking to the history of lace and the present plight of the dying craft.

The picture is taken from the Power of Hands website:

Andrea Galer the woman behind the Power of hands Project has always actively sought to include the work of craftspeople from across the world. As a film and television costume designer her long-held passion for traditional crafts has already taken her to India to work with handloom weavers. In the aftermath of the tsunami she determined to help the Sri Lankan lacemakers whose lives had been devastated. Andrea's collections and film costumes provide ongoing links to the lace, she has used the lace made by tsunami suvivors in her current production 'Jane Eyre' the BBCs big drama this autumn. The lace is also featured in her current bridal collection and she is currently designing the Limited Signature Editions profiling the lace from Galle.

More information in this old post.

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Art-Exhibitions