Sketch Unveils 'Home of the Braves' Installation Featuring Mylands FTT Colours
‘Home of the Braves’ celebrates the pioneering courage and unapologetically fearless spirit of the Suffragettes. sketch, located at No. 9 Conduit Street, has long-standing ties with the Suffragettes, being the location for a public address calling for the enfranchisement of women by Dame Fawcett in 1869. Castelbajac has dedicated the exhibition to his close friend, Vivienne Westwood, who throughout her life embodied the soul of the Suffragettes.
With interplaying colours, Castelbajac's designs are powerful and striking, featuring an array of vibrant colours to standout and be bold
Not only an homage to the fearless Suffragettes, Castelbajac's designs are an ode to his close friend Vivienne Westwood, who embodied this spirit too
Renowned for his multidisciplinary work across art, fashion, and design, which is characterised by a limited colour palette of blue, yellow, and red, Castelbajac has selected eight confident and powerful Mylands shades to bring his vision to life.
For over a century Mylands, has held an unrivalled association with the film, television and theatre industry which has seen its paints featured in some of the world’s greatest movie, TV and theatre productions including Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Star Wars and James Bond.
The FTT Collection features a palette of twenty vibrant colours made originally for this sector. With the fast-drying times and outstanding coverage for which Mylands is renowned, the collection includes some of Mylands’ most successful shades such as its bestselling gold metallic FTT-001™ Rich Gold and FTT-18™ Ultramarine Blue.
For this installation, commanding Mylands shades of red, blue and yellow including FTT-11™ CSO Green, FTT-18™ Ultramarine Blue, FTT-08™ Mid Chrome, FTT-09™ Bright Red, FTT-10™ Vermillion, FTT-19™ Ultra Violet, Pink House Pink and Enamel Blue™ No.78 are used across multi-coloured slogan flags, playful walls covered in vibrant shields, coats of arms and imaginary weapons to immerse visitors in the combative and heroic spirit of the suffragettes.
