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Work on paper - Officials' Uniform Design Drawings, Wendy Powitt, c. 1992

  • hand drawn image of a white woman wearing black skirt, black short sleeved jacket and striped blouse. Line drawing sketches show detail of shoes, jacket, blouse, skirt and emblem to the right of figure.

    uniform design sketch

  • hand drawn image of a white man wearing black pants, black suit jacket, yellow shirt and a striped tie. Line drawing sketches show detail of shoes, jacket and belt to the left of figure.

    uniform design sketch

  • hand drawn image of a white woman wearing black skirt, black short sleeved jacket and striped blouse. Line drawing sketches show detail of shoes, jacket, blouse, skirt and emblem to the right of figure.
  • hand drawn image of a white man wearing black pants, black suit jacket, yellow shirt and a striped tie. Line drawing sketches show detail of shoes, jacket and belt to the left of figure.

Historical information

A set of laminated A3 sketchbook pages depicting designs for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Women's Opening/Closing Ceremony Uniform designed by Wendy Powitt.

On the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games donor Doug Pleasance wrote-

The 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games saw an evolutionary change in designer selection. A Declaration of Interest Form was communicated to over forty potential designers. The task and especially tight timelines that were involved deterred many aspirants, however, there remained eight designers with the potential we were seeking. These eight designers were paid $3,000 per submission and the winning designer, Wendy Powitt, was paid $15,000. For the first time the judging panel included two athletes, one male swimmer and one female basketballer, their influence was pivotal.

The Official Uniform was used for both travel and official functions. This included a tailored blazer and trouser/skirt set (all water repellent) by Fletcher Jones in pure olive green faille fabric by Foster Valley, a cotton PE formal shirt by Pelaco, pure wool knitwear by Spangaro, a printed wool tie by TD Noone, wool nylon socks by Holeproof and footwear by Hush Puppy.

Physical description

8122.1 - A laminated A3 sketchbook page depicting a design for the Men's 1992 Barcelona Olympics Australian Official's Uniform. The main drawing shows the design for blue suit pants and blazer with six gold buttons, a yellow shirt and a red, green, yellow and cream striped tie. To the left of the main image are four smaller detail drawings of the belt buckle, gold bottons, blazer and shoes.

8122.2 - A laminated A3 sketchbook page depicting a design for the Women's 1992 Barcelona Olympics Australian Official's Uniform. The main drawing shows the design for a blue elbow length, square necked blazer with gold buttons on both the front of the jacket and sleeves paired with a blue pencil skirt and a red, green, yellow and cream shirt. To the right of the main drawing are four smaller detail drawings showing the pattern for a scarf, the striped shirt, the blazer and the shoes.

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