Simon Winkler

Simon Winkler works in radio and occasionally DJ's at various events. His collaborative project I SPY 2 is part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Running from 14 - 21 March, I SPY 2 sees five leading fashion creatives use cameras to document their daily lives.

I SPY 2 is screening at the Atrium and Big Screen at Federation Square, Georges on collins street level winows, the Foyer Screen at City Library and Alice Euphemia.

Pinchy, 2010, paper

For Insert Coin Here I have incorporated the practice of origami, producing a series of scorpion-like forms from the pages of discarded fashion magazines. By seeking to capture the essence of form, origami offers a satisfying system of reducing nature to a series of replicable step by step instructions; moreover the transformation of a simple square into a complex form provides a neat analogue of all creative pursuits. These paper arachnida represent a versatility of form, and a defiance of function; the obscured editorial hidden in their folds hints at the sting of an old fashion tale.