Confashional

with Ketakii Jewson-Brown

(ShayeKet Productions)

A magical space where fashion waste meets faith, and redemption is just a confession away. 

Confashional is a visual and interactive experience where salvation from fashion guilt is served in sacred, ritualistic doses. This immersive installation is part performance, part sacred space, dedicated to confronting the fashion waste crisis on the Sunshine Coast (where 11 tonnes of waste enters landfill every day!!!).

Inside the ‘Confashion Booth’ you can confess your fashion sins. What’s your guilty pleasure? That unworn dress still hanging in your closet? The fast fashion impulse buy? No judgment here. Instead, receive ABSOLUTION, and a pledge that encourages reflection, redemption, and, most importantly, revolution. Guilt wont fix this problem, but raising awareness and confronting it has got to be helpful.

Surrounded by mountains of fashion waste, you’ll experience a visual sermon on the true cost of consumerism. Prepare for a mildly overwhelming, yet strangely joyful exploration of the fashion waste epidemic, with a side of humour, reflection, and perhaps even a call to action. Confashional is a place to confront, reflect, and maybe find a little peace in your fashion choices. 

Repent. Reflect. Rewear.

The Creative team included:

Lead Artists – Shaye Hardisty and Ketakii Jewson-Brown

Writer – Lee Hardisty 

Production support – Aimee and Mark Grey of Kerbside Collective 

Lighting support- Travis McFarlane

Confashional was commissioned for Horizon 2025 through Sunshine Coast Council's MadeSC program and presented as part of the Festival Precinct Urban Gallery supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Big Top Shopping Centre.

The development of this work was supported by Sunshine Coast Councils's MadeSC program and the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF), a partnership between Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland. 

Also supported by The Sunshine Coast Art Foundation's GIFTED program and Fast Fashun.