Like the title of her art exhibition, Go with the Flow, Woodend’s Dani Legge has adapted over the different seasons of her life. At 70, this will be Dani’s first painting exhibition but it comes at the end of a long career in the arts.
Dani started her artistic career in ceramics before settling on sculpture as her medium for a decade. Then her eldest daughter’s need for a costume as the lead in the Eisteddfod introduced her to the world of tutus.
Dani quickly became fascinated with the craft and for the last 25 years she has been a professional tutu maker, designing and creating exquisite ballet and theatre costumes as well as running workshops around Australia teaching others how to create these amazing outfits too.
After retiring from custom-making tutus and now only making them for pleasure, Dani found fluid art and has become obsessed.
Where designing and creating ballet costumes is a job of precision and control, fluid art is unpredictable and absolutely freeing. While being able to choose colours and layers, masks and shapes, ultimately each piece has to be given its own space to create the unexpected and be a part of the final piece.
Dani loves making art and with her understanding of colour, composition and artistic eye, each piece is beautifully pulled together. But ultimately, like her tutus, they are not made to sit in a cupboard, they are made to bring colour and joy to other people’s words.
Go and meet Dani at the opening of her exhibition on Friday May 26 from 6.30pm, or see the exhibition on display every day until June 19 at The Old Auction House, 52-56 Mollison Street Kyneton.
