Grace Wales Bonner graduated from Central St. Martins in 2014. The following year her eponymous line Wales Bonner was awarded Emerging Menswear Designer’ at the British Fashion Awards, she received the LVMH Young Designer Prize in 2016. Informed by broad research that encompasses critical theory, composition, literature, and historical sources, Wales Bonner explores a distinctive notion of luxury via a hybrid of European and African approaches. Obtaining wide recognition, Wales Bonner has presented at the Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. International stockists include Dover Street Market, Selfridges, 10 Corso Como, and Joyce.
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NON XCHANGE: PRACTICE
2 Jun 2017
NON XCHANGE premieres a new short film made in collaboration with Harley Weir and Grace Wales Bonner. The experimental film scored by Devonte Hynes explores a broad spectrum of dance via the protagonist, Leroy Mokgatle, a 17-year-old ballet dancer from Pretoria, South Africa. Collaging dance scenes spanning across Johannesburg and Cape Town, fantasy and reality intertwine as the extremes of discipline are explored through the people we meet along the way.
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Artist biographies
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Grace Wales Bonner
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Harley Weir
London-born photographer Harley Weir is known for creating intimate images in both her personal work and her acclaimed editorial and commercial work. Her images are carefully composed with a highly attuned sense of colour and composition. In 2016 Weir released Homes, a sold-out publication documenting the migrant and refugee camps of Calais, whereby all proceeds were donated to the charity La Cimade. She held her first solo exhibition Boundaries at Foam in Amsterdam in 2016, and in 2015 her Legs Are Not Doors film for Proenza Schouler was awarded Best Fashion Film at the 2015 Fashion Film Festival Milano. Her Clients include Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton, Missoni, Stella McCartney and magazines i-D, Pop, British Vogue, French Vogue & Double.
