Spring into Fashion
Spring into Fashion – Sonya Todd
22nd March to 23rd April 2011
Reunion Gallery are holding a retrospective review of the work of Sonya Todd in their Upstairs Gallery. Sonya was a fashion illustrator and designer working in the fashion houses of the 60’s and 70’s.
She considers this form of artwork as an example of Social History. From the 19th Century to the present day, the fashion industry plays a very large part in the culture of our everyday life.
She developed her own style of fashion drawing, influenced by the wonderful work of Japanese artists and their woodcut method of reproduction, for example Utamara – and the 19th Century Art Nouveau artist Aubrey Beardsley, black and white being particularly suitable for newspaper reproduction.
Her work as a fashion artist in advertising shows fashion garments to excite the woman of modest means, with flair and style.
The current series Mad Men has a strong resonance in her work.
The exhibition consists of original and printed illustrations of her work from that era.