Brigid McLeer

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Brigid McLeer presented a memorial to the hundreds of workers who die in factories and sweatshops across the world that supply the global garment industry.

Made in collaboration with local embroiderers and inspired by a large-scale lace panel from the Gawthorpe Textile Collection commemorating the Battle of Britain, the work was a moving testament to the lives lost to feed the West’s seemingly bottomless appetite for fast fashion.